When a Simple Fireball Just Isn't Enough
Continuing our adventure, our party was heading through a swamp, travelling in a boat. At a few points we had to get out of the boat and carry it up to 100 feet across a small patch of land so that we could continue our journey in the water on the other side. At one of these times, we were attacked by a monster, one which we had all ready encountered and scared off once. Our Mage decided to take care of things, and started to cast a Fireball.
Evidently, he had forgotten that during our trip we had occasionally seen small flames erupt from the marsh land around us, as marsh gases ignited, letting out a small 'pop' in the process. Letting loose a Fireball put us all in some danger of being in the middle of a huge explosion, as marsh gas from all around ignited. It would be our Mage's home-brew version of an Enhanced Fireball.
As fortune would have it, the Fireball didn't end up causing an area around us the size of a small town to be engulfed in a ball of flamy doom; we kept our eyebrows and beards, and the Mage kept his spell book from being thrown in to the swamp.
5th November 2004 at 9.22 am
And I should point out that the Mage, when informed that he could cause a chain reaction with the marsh gases, excitedly asked, 'Ooh! What do I need to roll?!'
10th November 2004 at 11.33 am
Just think of the XPs the Mage would have gained for incinerating the entire swamp!!! Lizard Men, Nagas, Rakshasas... all toast.
10th November 2004 at 12.02 pm
The only problem being that he would probably only have got the XPs posthumously.