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large creature hit by a fireball takes 4 times the damage

its not a matter of size of a spell it a matter of amount of energy and amount of fuel used. fireball deals a certain amount of damage because it has a fixed amount of energy in it.

Cherry_Goose, the rules here are striving for balance and simplicity, but not realism. Cases like the guy walking slowly through a strip of burning webs really are rare enough to ignore. That a Colossal creature covered in flames takes only as much damage as a Fine one is just one of those bits in the game you have to not think about much. Every game has them, they're just in different places. The only 100% realistic game is, well, reality.

EDIT: And as for reality making sense... ever studied quantum mechanics? The universe is pretty kludgy.

it is perfectly balanced, large creatures take more damage than small ones due to their size

Cherry_Goose wrote:

TriOmegaZero wrote:

Spike Stones wrote:

Number of squares does not factor in.

So if i where to make a strip of webs 5x20x5 feet and walk along it while it burns i will take more damage that a guant snake that can fill the whole space and all the web will ignite at the same time?

On the second round, yes.

so if a large creature 10-foot stands in the web and i light up one square it will take 2d4 for this square in one round and then it will take same amount of damage from adjacent squares that just started burning, even though the amount of "burning fuel" increase? that seems at the very lest illogical

Spike Stones wrote:

5 feet of movement through the spiked area.

"movement" is the key word here if you dont move you dont take dmg

also, if a creature stands in flaming weds and takes 2d4 fire dmg in round 1 and then moves from square that burned away in round 1 to a square that will burn in round 2 it will take another 2d4 points of damage?

"per square occupied".

Example plz?

So i have a question about the WEB spell. The description text says:

The strands of a web spell are flammable. A flaming weapon can slash
them away as easily as a hand brushes away cobwebs. Any fire can set
the webs alight and burn away one 5-foot square in 1 round. All creatures within flaming webs take 2d4 points of fire damage from the flames.

The question is: if a 5-foot cube burns away in 1 round and deals 2d4 fire damage to a creature in that space, than a Large creature 10-foot cube size trapped in the webs takes 16d4? Or in other words 2d4 damage for every 5-foot cube of space that this creature occupies? For the purpose of this discussion all of the 5-foot cubes in 10-foot cude space alight simultaneously.