The shitty part is that last I checked fireball had no explosive properties apart from “rule of cool” from DMs that want it to have explosive properties. It was a dinky little glowy point-and-click dot that goes fwoosh, does fire damage, then vanishes.
I think that’s ridiculous, but a rules lawyer could shoot down the fun unless that changed when I wasn’t looking.
but it deals damage in a big sphere… logically it has to explode, right
It doesn’t do any special damage or bypass hardness of objects, so that doesn’t sound like an explosion except in “flavor” text. At least it ignites objects, which it didn’t do in previous editions.
The shitty part is that last I checked fireball had no explosive properties apart from “rule of cool” from DMs that want it to have explosive properties. It was a dinky little glowy point-and-click dot that goes fwoosh, does fire damage, then vanishes.
I think that’s ridiculous, but a rules lawyer could shoot down the fun unless that changed when I wasn’t looking.
Huh?
Could you explain this because it’s very confusing. Or are we not talking 5E?
It’s a fireball… that has a big AoE. So if it’s a roughly hand sized sphere but it deals damage in a big sphere… logically it has to explode, right?
Beyond that it’s got the word “explosion” in the spell description, at least on dnd beyond.
It doesn’t do any special damage or bypass hardness of objects, so that doesn’t sound like an explosion except in “flavor” text. At least it ignites objects, which it didn’t do in previous editions.