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So one of my players is going to be playing a fire mage, and looked up Hellfire Ray and wanted it to be a bonus spell that he can learn and memorize for free. The problem is that this spell is not fire. At least not in the respect that it has the descriptor for it. It doesn't. I figure that it's because it's hellfire. It's just evil hotness that burns hotter than fire.
Is there an errata stipulating that this spell should have the fire descriptor added to it? I couldn't find one myself.
Nope. Hellfire in every edition of D&D and PF is only fire by name. It has always been a magical energy that comes from or was created by Mephistopheles or the Lords of the Nine as a whole. It burns hotter than any fire, and it has never been subject to fire resistance.
That reminds me I need to redo the template I made that uses this.
Half of damage it inflict is fire so it should be [fire] spell. Seems like an omission.
Good point Drejk. If half of it is fire then it should have the fire descriptor.
Flame strike has the fire descriptor.
There is no errata right now, but I will FAQ your main post. I would go ahead and change it as a GM. The spell is evil however, but I don't know how much that matters in your games.
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There is no errata right now, but I will FAQ your main post. I would go ahead and change it as a GM. The spell is evil however, but I don't know how much that matters in your games.
The guy's going to be evil as we're going to be playing the evil campaign, Way of the Wicked, done by Fire Mountain Games. He wants to play a pyromancer fire mage. Then this came up. Thought we'd get it settled before he built up the character too far.
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I don't particularly see anything unbalancing in typing it fire, as flamestrike.
Do keep in mind, that for damage reduction, since half of it is actually fire damage, fire resistance generally hurts it as much as it hurts a normal spell. The main advantage is against immune creatures I'd suppose, or metamagicking it creatively.
If you're making this change as a GM, I might also suggest halving the benefits if he's getting any abilities that say...maximize fire spells specifically, or something. you'd maximize the fire half the roll the divine half separately.
The above would be a complete houserule, but I'd feel it to be a fair one based on balancing it with adding the fire descriptor too, at your discretion. Totally up to you
Personally, I'd add both [Fire] and [Evil] to it, given that half the damage is infernal unholy energy. Usually channeling pure evil to kill things is kind of, well, you know, evil.