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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jolly Giant" data-source="post: 1560730" data-attributes="member: 5278">I've been the pondering for a while about the Arcane Archer's ability to "attach" area spells to his arrows, making the arrows point of impact the center of the area of effect...Say for instance that an arcane archer shoots an arrow carrying a fireball at an enemy; the arrow hits and the fireball goes off. Do you allow the person that just got hit a reflex save against the fireball?To me it seems illogical that anyone could save against a fireball that is practically stapled to their chest/back/whatever, but I'm a bit concerned the arcane archer class will get somewhat too powerful if he can shoot off fireballs etc. with no save. I'm currently thinking I should allow a save, but at a severe penalty; something like -10 or -20. How does all the other DMs around here handle this?What about non-instantaneous AoE spells, like the various fog-spells? Does the AoE follow the arrow AFTER it's been triggered? Or does the AoE remain where it is if the arrow is thrown/carried away?Let's hear it, folks! I'm curious...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>