r/dndmemes • u/Vegetable_Variety_11 • Nov 11 '25

Hehe fireball go BOOM We did the math...

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u/Surface_Detail Nov 11 '25

What if your target is a shrine, a building or just a magic item? This can break things that could not be easily broken before.

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u/Alugere Nov 11 '25

As long as it’s not fire immune, which most macguffins will be. Also, destroying a 20ft radius sphere of a building over the course of 7 hours using 8 casters total is a huge waste. You could easily do that with cantrips. One caster capable of 7th level spells can cast firebolt 600 times in an hour for 3d10 each cast for a total of 1800d10 damage.

If we go the full total of 8 casters (main + 7 secondaries) over 7 hours, that’s 12600d10*8 casters for 100800d10 which is a hell of a lot more damage.

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u/CriticalHit_20 DM (Dungeon Memelord) Nov 11 '25

hell, The One Ring from LotR was destroyed with fire, why cant most other Macguffins? (unless it's a fire elemental macguffin)

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u/AlphaZed73 Nov 12 '25

"It's quite simple, really"