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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 3210290" data-attributes="member: 2011">Up until now, I have been discussing how I think the rules work in this thread.Web provides cover and total cover. The Spread rules discuss how spreads go around total cover, but do not discuss how they go around or through cover. Nor do the Spread rules discuss negating the cover bonus. Hence, the cover rules of Web trump. There is a difference between how people think Spreads should work and what is actually written in the Spread rules.However, here is how I think it should work. Webs are supposed to be flammable. They burn away at 5' per round. We are not given the hit points or hardness of a Web, presumably so that PCs cannot hack away at it.If you put a torch against an oak door, it might get charred a little, but it is not particularly flammably and will probably not catch on fire, at least not in a short period of time. Webs, on the other hand, are very flammable. As such, I think a Fireball should instanteously blow through a Web and keep on going, just as it typically blows through an Oak Door. It should do it so quickly that the Web does not provide cover, on the other hand, the Web also should not be entangling the creatures caught in the Fireball either. The text of a burning Web in the Web spell also should not apply. The creatures are not taking damage from a burning Web, they are taking damage from the Fireball. The Web does not get a chance to burn the creatures or even entangle the creature anymore because the Fireball instantly burns it away.That's how I think it should work, but that's JMO.</blockquote>

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