Battle Magic

[Harding Nick MMUk]

People keep refering to Fireball as a battlespell. The problem
with the fireball and even delayed blast fireball is the blast radius.
If you consider both these spells as the original multiplied by 200, the
volume of the fireball blast created is enough to incinerate the caster
even if thrown to its furthest range. This is the age old problem of
the fireball spell now taken from underground setting to the wilderness
setting.

[Ryan B. Caveney]

> People keep refering to Fireball as a battlespell.

It's not. It's a conventional spell that has a battlefield effect.

> The problem with the fireball and even delayed blast fireball is the
> blast radius.

Oooh. Nice argument! I need to think about this. If there has
to be a reason to disallow a battle-spell-power version of fireball, I
want this to be it.

> the fireball spell now taken from underground setting to the wilderness

Yes. Something needs to be done about the spacewarp.

- --Ryan

[Pieter A de Jong]

At 09:29 AM 5/14/98 +0100,Nick Harding wrote:
> People keep refering to Fireball as a battlespell. The problem
>with the fireball and even delayed blast fireball is the blast radius.
>If you consider both these spells as the original multiplied by 200, the
>volume of the fireball blast created is enough to incinerate the caster
>even if thrown to its furthest range. This is the age old problem of
>the fireball spell now taken from underground setting to the wilderness
>setting.
>
Battle spell multipliers apply to all aspects including the range. Second
off, that kind of blast would be a little overkill, which is why I proposed
rain of fireballs rather than Humungous Fireball

Pieter A de Jong
Graduate Mechanical Engineering Student
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

[Rasmus Juul Wagner]

Harding Nick MMUk wrote:
>
> People keep refering to Fireball as a battlespell. The problem
> with the fireball and even delayed blast fireball is the blast radius.
> If you consider both these spells as the original multiplied by 200, the
> volume of the fireball blast created is enough to incinerate the caster
> even if thrown to its furthest range.

I certainly wouldn't let that stop me if I could get a 4000' radius
fireball spell. Actually, when cast as a groundburst, radius would be
5039'.

This is the age old problem of
> the fireball spell now taken from underground setting to the wilderness
> setting.

Problem? What problem? (crafty, math-literate wicked GM laugh).

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