

None of this "items only take damage on a natural 1 on the save" stuff, all items (at least if you followed the rules) take damage from the lightning bolt. As a kid playing the "Gold Box" games my father had, I'd line up the martials in a way to try to get the monsters to form a line to melee them next to a wall, and have the wizard dimension door over and launch a Lightning Bolt straight down the line, basically instantly ending some encounters.Īnother thing the older version (and Fire Ball) did was melt the treasure. If you stood 35 feet away from a wall perpendicularly, you could bounce a lightning bolt so it hits the same enemy twice, and 2d6 damage per level is almost certainly a kill in the lower-HP 1e/2e. Except it's a lot easier to work with a 60' line that bounces safely, and a lot of wizards started playing monster billiards, lining up trick shots bouncing lightning off walls. Lightning Bolt was meant to bounce off a wall, fly back at the caster, and kill them. This was meant to be a trap, alongside the 1e/2e Fireball (Fire Ball) that filled 4190 33,000 cubic feet instead of a 20-foot radius (which in an enclosed space like most dungeons and with the low 1d4 HP and only up to +1 HP from Con most wizards would get, would be a probable death if the wizard didn't understand how the explosion would be shaped). (Old man rant.) Way back in 1e/2e AD&D, Lightning Bolt would bounce off of walls. /r/3d6 - For character creation, advice and sharing (system agnostic)./r/Battlemaps - For your VTT battlemap requirements./r/Tabletop - For your general tabletop gaming shenanigans./r/lfg - Looking For Group, find other players, etc./r/RPG - For general, non-Pathfinder related RPG discussion./r/Starfinder_rpg - For dedicated discussion of Paizo's Science Fantasy system and setting.


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