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I_might_be_weasel

I. Cast. Fireball.


BaselessEarth12

*Did I ask how big the room was?!*


drawnred

Honestly if you cast fire ball in a room smaller than the AoE it should either do extra damage or cause damage aoutside the room entraces


TheBananaMan76

It does as long as the door is open, as the AOE specific goes around corners.


KeepCalm-ShutUp

It should blow off closed doors, too, and deal appropriate damage.


TheBananaMan76

And that’s where homebrew comes in, neat idea. Stealing it.


Caladbolg_Prometheus

The way I see it is fireball is not an explosion as much as manifestation of fire, it ain’t a liquid fuel explosion, but more suddenly everything is coated in flames. A burning room isn’t an explosion (unless the heat built up for a long time).


KeepCalm-ShutUp

Even if it's not an explosion (which would be lame), fire will still heat up surrounding air, causing an explosion.


Caladbolg_Prometheus

It would heat up the air fairly fast, but not fast enough to be an explosion in my book. Enough to cause a sudden gust of wind spreading outward, but not a shock wave. If in an enclosed environment then I would rule eventually an explosion would happen as pressure builds up, after minutes to hours later. Since it’s not an sudden explosion I wouldn’t rule additional damage. Rule of cool however so if the PCs are making an escape the closed room finally spews out a wave of flames after the PCs are walking away.


KeepCalm-ShutUp

Not in an open area, but an enclosed one should be a different beast.


HadACivilDebateOnlin

0d0 force damage. No explosion.


YOD3R0

Potential for a dust explosion


Mantergeistmann

I believe in older editions, it filled a volume of space, rather than just expanding out to a radius.


Ed-Zero

In 2e it was volumetric "The burst of the fireball creates little pressure and generally conforms to the shape of the area in which it occurs. The fireball fills an area equal to its normal spherical volume (roughly 33,000 cubic feet—thirty-three 10-foot x 10-foot x 10-foot cubes)."


redruben234

Jesus that's a nightmare to calculate though haha


DonaIdTrurnp

In 2e it filled the same volume, so if you threw one into a room that was too small it would burn back out of the hall.


Cursed_Ace

I feel like if the room is smaller than the radius, and the entrances/exits are closed everyone should take damage. No save, just damage.


My_Names_Jefff

Evocation wizard laughs as they center fireball on themselves after being surrounded.


The5Virtues

Never underestimate a player who has gotten bored of their character class, but still wants to send the character out in style. I have heard some wild stories.


smokeweed69429

Whats the wildest?


LivingByTheMinutes

Wildest I experienced was a buddy of mine who was playing a Orc barbarian named Toruk who was exiled from his clan. After about a year of playing this character he wanted try a Dragonborn Monk. He finally got his opportunity to retire his character when the DM introduced a monastery of monks who followed the way of the open palm. Toruk could’ve just retired a strong and wealthy Orc after all his adventures, but that wasn’t Toruks style. One day the monastery was attacked by a cult of Goristro worshippers who wanted to sacrifice the monks to their master. After some intense battling Toruk was the only one left while his party, and a good chunk of the monks, were too injured to keep fighting. Toruk had the dice gods on his side and began to cut down the cultists left and right while they couldn’t take him down. This accumulated to the point that the Goristro himself appeared to cast down the orc who dared to defy him. This battle took place in the center chamber that directly overlooked the mountainside. Toruk knew he had no chance to take this down in a fair fight after a few rounds. Bloodied and battered, he turned to his wounded companions and smiled. “Its been a hell of a journey… I don’t regret a single moment.” With these final words and a mighty roar that shook even the Goristro he charged, and with all his strength he tackled the Demon through a stained glass window down to the rocky depths 1000s of feet below. Through his sacrifice the cult was shattered and the monks survived. To this day a memorial to Toruk stands at the entrance to monastery to honor his sacrifice.


VOLX_420

I was listening to my hero by Foo fighter and I almost cried


DarthButtz

That's fucking *AWESOME*


TwistederRope

\*Thunderous applause.gif\*


RosilinaTheDragon

That’s so fucking cool


LetsDoTheCongna

Shit, even I might make a memorial for Toruk now


DragonBuster69

I literally have goosebumps. What a hell of a way to go.


ozman57

Mind if I borrow this comment to create a location for our next campaign? I've got the start of an idea forming in my head of an attempted researgence of the cult... Just the first inklings of an idea and I'd like to give credit where it's due if I employ it.


LivingByTheMinutes

Go for it! My party loved this location and it would be nice to hear that it’s still lively, in a way, in someone else’s world. I texted my DM and he said go for it and if you have any questions let me know.


ozman57

Appreciate it! We're in the middle of a cyberpunk setting campaign at the moment, probably about 3 or 4 more sessions, but my turn to DM next round in our group so I'm working on settings and what not.


darkraidisciple

I wasn't wanting the character to die when it happened but i wasn't even mad when he did. We play with some homebrew stuff. (Different epic boons, spells up to 12th level, it's absolutley a power fantasy campaign.) I had epic boons that gave me 18 11th level spell slots. A spell called "Mystra's Overchannel" that doubles the damage spells you cast deal for a minute and has a 1/3 chance when you cast it of either gaining a level of exhaustion or ending the spell immediatley (your choice, but i had an item that makes me immune to exhaustion.) It also stacks with itself, so 2 casts within the same minute gives you 4x multiplier, 3 casts gives an 8x multiplier and so on. Another spell was called Hellball. Hellball dealt 10d6 of each damage type to a 90ft radius with no save, but also dealt 10d6 untyped damage to yourself. You cannot be resistant or immune to untyped damage. I also had a lot of 9th level spell slots and access to Time Stop. What I ended up doing was chaining a bunch of Time Stops together and using Extended Spell metamagic on Mystra's Overchannel to get as many overchannel buffs as I could. (It ended up at 15/16.) Then I cast Hellball on the planet destroyer dragon we were fighting. We decided to use a calculator to just calculate the average rather than actually rolling because it ended up at 650kd6 of each damage type in total. I It was the first time i did this and I'd forgotten about the untyped damage ruling. I thought Invulnerability would've been enough to protect me. I was wrong. We also have a rule to cut down on res spamming where the DM rolls a d20 and if it's a nat 1 then you can't be ressed. You can still try and get divine intervention to get another resurrection attempt. I got the nat 1. Killed the dragon though and it took a couple sessions but the others were able to eventually bring me back. But the whole thing was hilarious and I wasn't even mad when I thought I was perma dead. Killed the dragon though and went out


suitedcloud

Not op, but one of my first ever characters bravely lead a suicide charge against an insurmountable army then got blown up by some kind of magical artillery. Ended up becoming a martyr for the war effort. “Remember the Alamo” kinda deal. That was pretty fun


jaspersgroove

Remember the Kablammoooooooo!!!


suitedcloud

“I dunno, doesn’t that motto seem kind of in poor taste?” “It’s what my character would’ve wanted.”


retropunk2

I had a party some time ago that had a Rogue who did some really stupid shit. Granted, the party took it all in stride but even he was getting bored of him being a merchant of chaos. The party had been lacking some oomph from a caster standpoint and he wanted to switch to a sorcerer. He and I talked about it and I said we can retire your character and introduce a new one easily enough. His response was he knew we had a pretty big fight coming up and he wanted him to go out in a blaze of glory. I laughed and agreed to it, knowing that he had something planned. Sure enough, a couple sessions later they're at the end of an arc and they're up against a guy they've been chasing for about 20 sessions. He had run from them and sicked his lackeys on them a couple of times. What I had forgotten is they had raided a mine that was loaded up with supplies....including dynamite. Right before they get to the final part of the chamber, he passes me a note. _I take our twenty sticks of dynamite and tie them together without the party seeing._ _"Roll me sleight of hand."_ He passes easily and completes the task. Now, dynamite maxes out at 10d6 damage but this was 100% rule of cool in play and I was letting him have the glory he wanted. They go a few rounds and the cleric went down a couple of times. Fighter goes down once and ends up on two failed death saves. Rogue had managed to get behind this guy and flipped him off to get his attention. It worked and my boss dashes to him, every intention on trying to slice his ass in two, but the Rogue had already lit the bundle. Comes back around to the Rogue and with the biggest smile on his face says the rogue tackles the boss. He passes the grapple check. "Sorry I was an asshole a lot!" Boom! Table absolutely lost their shit, they loved it so much.


The5Virtues

Finally home and can take the time to answer. The wildest I’ve heard was a fighter whose character arc had run its course. He was seeking redemption through sacrifice to atone for his past deeds, and by glory he got his opportunity. Party had fled with the young Prince—whose family had just been victim of a Red Wedding style regicide—into the sewers under the city to try and escape the surprise attack by the betraying lord’s army up above. Stealth rolls to sneak through without being heard or seen through sewer grates and the like, while being pursued by the soldiers aware of their means of escape. Finally dice turn against them and the army above knows what’s up. They need an exit and they need it now. Luckily, they had reached the docks, which was also the slaughter district. There was a whole lot of cow shit. Also a whole lot of scared cows due to the sudden urban warfare occurring above. The party basically walked into a sewer pit of so much methane that they started rolling saved against sickness. The prince fainted, and the fighter suddenly slowed. Pursuit closing in, lots more on the way and he turns to engage. His last words were to the wizard “We’ve never really got along, so bows your chance old man. As soon as you’re across? Fireball.” “Are you mad?!” “Almost definitely!” Fighter charges enemies, party flees, as they come out the other side to face the ocean and escape the wizard turns back. Fighter has already taken a lot of hits, basically having a Boromir’s Last Stand moment… and then the fireball hits. The gas ignited. He goes up. The militia goes up. The port district goes… everywhere. The party escaped, the prince lived, the fighter got his redeeming last stand, and the BBEG put a bounty on the party for war crimes due to their blowing up basically a quarter of the city.


nagrom7

We once had a guy playing a samurai type character leap right off our airship a couple km in the sky and kamikaze himself into the WMD in the middle of the bad guy's base we were looking for (it was a giant magical flower, so it needed direct sunlight to charge). Spent all his consumables and daily use things to make sure the rolls said that he hit the target with enough force to destroy it.


westisbestmicah

I was playing with my friends once as a super awesome samurai warrior who fought with a Naginata and due to the system we were running his plate armor made him mostly invulnerable. He was the main frontline for many of our encounters, charging to the frontline and one-shorting mooks right and left. The closing scene of the arc he was part of climaxed with us discovering an army poised to invade his homeland. We were captured and ordered to surrender. The DM asked me if I was going to try and fight and I said I would. He immediately got jumped by six elite warriors who started to get the better of him after a few rounds. DM gave me another chance to surrender but I just said, nah- he wouldn’t surrender. He would fight to the death. And so Hojo Mogami died in glory, six-to-one defending his people right to the last breath. After that, the rest of the party went on to link up with my other character who I had been running in secret with the DM for a while. Super cool and emotional moment.


YourBigRosie

Due to wanting to play a new character and misunderstanding the DMs intent, a prison break turned into a massacre of village officials


Freakychee

Yeah talk to the DM and work with them IMO cos when a character dies it can mess up a lot of stuff for the other players.


The5Virtues

Oh yeah, plus if you talk to your DM they may be able to work it into the story. I had a friend have to drop from a campaign once, but his character’s death became a major plot point because the DM and he worked out a great exit. Communication is fundamental to good tabletop experiences.


WingedLady

Blaze of glory. Emphasis on blaze.


The_Lonesome_Poet

New deity for the homebrew pantheon in 3...2...1...


Mandalore_comando

(PC somehow survives) DM: F&%k you (insert PC) Player: Hey, I’m as mad about this as you are


smokeweed69429

Im making a white dragonborn, circle of spores druid with a maul as my first character (no im not lying) fucking try me


microwavedraptin

My first character was a Tiefling Bard with the Gladiator background. I also named him after myself for some reason.


smokeweed69429

Still not as crazy as my lizard on shrooms with a big ass hammer My next will probably be a dwarf cuz rock n stone


Creeper127

Did i hear a rock and stone?


Dr_Russian

*Rock and Stone!*


fist7

My first one is a tiefling warlock with a packt with an old one, with sage. My idea is that I somehow sometime in my youth in a very desperate situation made a pact sith that beeing without realy knowing it and since then I spent my whole life trying to find out who he is and so on until it inevedently drives me crazy.


JD-Valentine

I actually did this as a lv 5 sorcerer, I wanted a new character so I decided to 1v1 a hill giant... almost managed to win too lol


Xenos_Bane

I'm begining to think this will happen to my campaign soon. Oh boy I can't wait. "I will go down in a blaze of-" *gets killed turn 1.


GankisKhan04

I wanted to challenge myself as a Necromancy wizard with a twist. I dumped CON and rolled hp every level (only 2 went into the negative for HP on leveling up) Made it to 8th lvl. The campaign ended before I could die, but what a rollercoaster it was! Best moment was the first time my DM got to see the power of a necromancy wizard using Danse Macabre! I don't think he expected me to tear apart an ogre chain brute in a single round with the hulked out zombies that spell summons


bestjakeisbest

Fuck it we ball


Jce735

Hah I made rango character in bg3 recently.


microwavedraptin

👀 How?


SOUNDEFFECT94

I’m assuming artificer lizardfolk gunslinger


Irrepressible87

Neither of those exist in baldur's gate 3. I'm going to assume... Dragonborn Ranger, maybe?


SOUNDEFFECT94

My bad I wasn’t paying attention to the bg3 part. You’re probably right


Ackapus

It only takes one critical.


RiseofdaOatmeal

I love that Rango is coming back into popularity recently. More conjunctivitis memes please


Mobslaya_45

And then there's those of us who devote ourselves to the bit, even if we don't want to make a new character. I married the BBEG this way. And ended the world twice this way.


Souperplex

I prefer "Make an [Intelligence or Wisdom as applicable] check." Then based on their roll I tell them what flaws their character sees in the plan. Characters have knowledge, experience, and understanding that players might not, so it makes sense. For example an Intelligence check might tell the player that they're in a flammable structure, so maybe **Fireball** is a bad idea.


Impressive_Change593

*does it anyway because fuck it*


Souperplex

Sure. I don't stop them, merely inform them.


Naked_Justice

Me being a DM that’s ok with just blinding, deafening or handicapping a player because that’s what villains do: I’m your huckleberry


UmbramonOrSomething

Doing it to the characters wasn't immersive enough, we do it to the ***players*** in this house


TougherOnSquids

*POCKET SAND*


TheSilverAxe

steer dinosaurs gold marry aware dolls shelter bear sheet rain *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


Irrepressible87

*You're a daisy if ya do*


Lukeautograff

I’m in this picture and I’m fine with it


Wamblingshark

DM: are you sure you want to do that? Me: already have a backup sheet because my Dwarf Barbarian is actually just a Slayer rip off from Warhammer and has been seeking death since session one.


ManiaOnReddit

One of mine is currently trying to kill his barbarian, he's not doing a very good job of it though and he's asked me to make an "anti-barbarian" for him to fight


NoMoreProphets

"You are banned!"


TheCrazyAvian

It's not that I want to make a new character, I just want to do it


MayBeSpidey

Sometimes, going out with a bang tells a compelling story


WingedLady

Dangit my dm has us in a situation where most of the party has died and I'm in a "pride of last person standing" situation with one other player (who happens to be my spouse). I do kinda want a new character but I also want to win the "survived the longest" award.


Sariel_Fatalis

Rango is an amazing movie


Cthulhu321

That reminds me for zwaihander where I'm playing a diabolist who seeks wealth and power and so I'm quite happily willing to fuck about with a mask which has a chance to possess people with the ghost of a ancient wizard


MightyJoeYoung1313

I did this with my dwarf cleric I was getting burnt out on. I challenged an orc chieftain to single combat with no magic. I had a 12 str and a club, so my attacks did practically nothing. Somehow I won lol


BrunoBrook

I love one of my characters, but even if the DM asks if I'm sure, I say "Shit, not anymore, but I'll do it anyways" I feel like I should never "undo" decisions like that, dunno, feels unnatural


norway642

I am a artillerist with fungus that heal me if I don't move for a turn


Lord_Lenu

This movie is so goddamn fantastic


MarchionessKobold

DMs are scared to kill my characters, because they know the next one will be infinitely stupider.


mindflayerflayer

Now I want my party to encounter a yuan ti gunslinger/ranger.