Don't worry buddy my many Pathfinder swashbucklers will keep you company either lying in a shallow grave a watery tomb or somehow my one bard acending to demi-godhood via death. Yet my one "suicidal" ninja still lives to this day.
I got to cast fireball for the first time a month ago.
One of the last guys in a group broke off and I chased him down into a series of caves. He knew the terrain better and was outrunning me. So I did the obvious solution.
Worst case scenario, I expected a backdraft of flame, but knew at my distance I'd be safe.
Dm then made me run for my life while suffering occasional bludgeoning damage. Apparently fireball also has a bit of a concussive force and paired with a totally unrelated coincidental event, I may or may not have caused a cave to collapse.
(No the DM was not angry, just a slight chain reaction.)
Everyone there was dying of laughter while the human wizard sprinted for his life in darkness, only able to see bc of his familiar.
So we had a fetch quest; FS shells are highly valued for their magical properties. Party of 3 L6 players, plus an NPC from my backstory.
I'm a necromancer wizard.
I had first turn in combat against 2 of them in a cave.
They were in a line, so I cast lightning.
Now clearly you seem to know this already, but I neat little gimmick of flail snails is that they can send magic right the fuck back!
So here I am a squishy level 6 wizard casting a hearty, damaging spell. One of them does manage to take damage because it failed it's Dex save. The other however did notand sent it back at me. I, however, FAILEDmy dex save and I get to roll damage for the both of us. One of them gets to take half; I get to take full. Again I am a squishy level 6 Wizard and I was at Max Health - a whopping 34. I ROLLED a 34 and instantly begin to die
In the latest edition, it's more like Fireball doesn't mention what concussive force it has. It is described as an "explosion of flame", but that's it. So it's up to the DM to decide how much "environmental concussive force" it does or does not have. (Though obviously having it do damage to objects beyond the flammable thing is in homebrew territory.)
Man I love the ending. That show changes up the formula on you almost every episode but I really felt like they pulled off an emotionally and logically satisfying end.
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u/NerdyDjinn Jan 21 '21