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[–] Syreniac 111 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Everytime I had a problem, I'd cast Meteor Swarm and boom right away I'd have a different problem.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Strategic mastery right there

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Jacksonville!!!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

The best kind

[–] JJROKCZ 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I once argued with my DM that burning hands should allow me to melt the lock of a door, or burn a hole in the door where the lock and handle used to be at least. Think I ended up just blasting the front off the shop lol

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well wrought iron melts at 1500C, brass and bronze around 1700C. And it would take considerable time at those temps so probably not just 1 cast of the spell. Also Burning Hands is a cone, so at those temps anyways it'd assuredly melt stone walls and floors, set fire to the door, roof, and anything else.

Some Object properties: Iron/steel has an AC of 19, irrelevant since it's a Dex save, and a lock has 5hp. But since it's probably immune to fire damage of this temp, the lock may very well be the only thing that remains after Burning Hands sets everything else ablaze. And the door probably has ~18hp, so 1 burning hands won't obliterate it, but the ongoing fire damage after it's set aflame likely would. Though the roof would probably go first.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and a lock has 5hp

So, punch the lock?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Technically I guess? 5e rules don't make much sense and the actually useful rules are mere suggestions.

I'd probably give it a damage threshold of 10 for iron.

[–] WindInTrees 12 points 1 year ago

I mean a door has HP. Burning hands would definitely damage it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you burned a sorcery point with shape spell, I could see turning it into a temporary blow torch, but it still only lasts the one action. Even heat metal doesn’t melt things (except lead or aluminum which melt before they get “red hot”), but it would probably burn the wood around it or weaken the lock enough that it would bust if the door was rammed.

[–] TheGiantKorean 14 points 1 year ago

I mean, she's not wrong

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Helps you sort out which items are magical and which items weren't.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"If I had just one WISH, I'd WISH that all gold and weapons I could WISH for would ~~vanish~~ vanWISH from shops nearby and appear before my feet to fulfill my dreams and WISHES. WISH that would work."

WISHWISHWISH

My players are about to hit level 17 sometime soon, send help

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The wish works but there is a nearby weapon manufacturing district. The weapons from the warehouses suddenly appear all around the players. They now have to crawl over a giant pile of pointy weapons. And, the gold landed on the bottom of the pile out of reach.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Modern solutions for modern problems

[–] Tedesche 5 points 1 year ago

Still a better choice than Knock.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

How i wiped out my first ork occupied fortress in Gothic 3. The chaos was glorious!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think we can also accept fireball