Thoughts?
Sure, out of all euclidean shapes the sphere has highest volume relative to surface area, it is optimised for power.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ujnA9HNYXU
>>98842834I wouldn’t call them the most powerful… just the most special…
>>98842834You left out one.
>>98842861my exact reaction whenever the spell is cast
>staring at the moon is a more intelligent feat than staring into deep space BRAVO MIYAZAKI
>>98842834Yeah, you know what's another name for a sphere? A ball.Fireball that is.
>>98843645In D&D 3.5 fireball allows spell resistance, while an orb of fire doesn't.
>>988442203.5 was a silly a edition.
>>98844322Nah, it makes perfect sense, with fireball you evoke magical fire while with an orb of fire you conjure a piece of nonmagical fire/plasma and fling it.
>>98844335What is the difference between magical fire and nonmagical fire? Is either or both of them affected by fire resistance/immunity? Can they set things on fire or cook a meal?
>>98844348They're both affected by immunity or resistance to fire, if the spells describe that they can then they both set things on fire as normal. The difference is magical fire can be bounced off by spell resistance and cannot exist inside an antimagic field while a nonmagical fire can. For example if you throw a fireball spell at a stone golem, it's unharmed because it's a magical fire and stone golems are impervious to magic, but an orb of fire spell damages it because it's effectively nonmagical fire thrown at it.
>>98844335>>98844348>>98844363>fire isn’t fire is fire God this place is retarded
>>98842834I think I wish FROMslop toddlers would keep their garbage games on the appropriate board.>>>/v/
>>98842834Ever wizard longs to cast Meteor. To drop the skies on their foes like a god.Orbs are nothing more than the shape most evocative of the celestial.
>>98842834classic
>>98842834Wasn't there a spell that literally turned you into a god?
>>98845951Yes and God is shaped like a ball
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>>98846806Trippy
>>98846806What is this? Paint?
>>98844348>What is the difference between magical fire and nonmagical fire? Is either or both of them affected by fire resistance/immunity? Can they set things on fire or cook a meal?it's the difference between Evocation and Conjuration. Fire resistance applies to both magical and non-magical fires, but Spell Resistance and things affecting magic don't work on the latter unless it prevents the casting entirely. Enemies with spell resistance, or something like an Anti-Magic Field, can resist or turn off magical effects and evocation effects and the magic flames won't work as well or at all, while with Conjuration the actual magic is in bringing something from Point A to Point B.If you conjure a completely nonmagical anvil into the air 30 feet above somebody's head like Loony Toons, the heavy anvil falling on their head and going splat is not a magical effect, and even if you're fighting a high level Drow priestess with Spell Resistance, she'll still get crushed like a bug due to the entirely mundane effects of gravity and weight. The magic spell was in teleporting an anvil into the air above her head, the anvil itself isn't magic.Similarly, while inside an anti-magic field, you can't cast the "summon an anvil twenty feet in the air over your head" spell, but existing anvils you've already dropped on other people won't cease existing inside it, the spell's duration is instantaneous because the magic is in conjuring an anvil somepalce it shouldn't be, it's not an anvil made out of magic.This is why many Acid spells were so useful in 3.5 and Pathfinder 1e, since even against enemies with spell resistance or magic immunity, many offensive conjuration spells are Spell Resistance: None because you're just using a spell to spray completely nonmagical aqua regia on them and melt their faces off, or fill a hallway with mustard gas because the geneva convention is more of a to-do list for Wizards.
Do yourself a favor and unearth the Orb Of the Albino DoomGoat
>>98850424It's Ozma you dingus.
>>98844348>What is the difference between magical fire and nonmagical fire?One is magic given the properties of fire, the other is actual fire
>>98851354That rings a bell…
>>98842861Kek
>>98842834Really makes you ponder.
>>98851742>One is magic given the properties of fireOr to put it another way, it has the properties of both magic and fire.And usually fizzles out near instantly after getting chucked at something, whereas real acid keeps corroding your face after.
>>98851690Ozma balls lmao gottem
Guy on the right mogs
>>98850783D&D is so fucking dumb KEK
>>98856523Rock candy
>>98842889>DLC post game spells having inflated levels relative to the late base game spellsIt's a good thing no one is retarded enough to use game balancing details like that to extrapolate lore.
I like balls
>>98842889IIRC its less that noticing that the moon was there at all was some grand feat, and more that realizing what the moon is *capable* of was the real discovery. The moon being functionally inert compared to all of the other sources of power in space was, itself, incredibly special and could be utilized as a barrier to tell the space gods to fuck off. Its like lead being a base metal that doesn't seem all that important until you find out that it stops radiation.
Which combination of fth, int and arc is most fun boys
>>98842834flatearthers on suicide watch
>>98842834Words of Power beat your silly orbs.
>>98842861Or perhaps two!
>be bandit>sneak up on a lone wizard while he ponders his orb>just before I reach him, his face becomes slightly concerned, whereupon he speaks a strange word and disappears>his orb warned him of danger>have to make his coffee later that day>he doesn’t even recognize me>he doesn’t even look up from his orb>try to poison him, but he just grabs the bishop’s coffee and leaves me to poison the bishop>fucking orbs
