So a Fire Ball might boil your potions, although being magic items they had a decent save. Items had to make a saving throw against fire, especially magical fire. I think this is a case where I liked 1e better. So I could carry an open can of gasoline through a Fire Storm spell, while being hit by a Fire Ball, with a mage targeting the gas with a Fire Bolt and it still wouldn't ignite! Same 'if it isn't being worn or carried'.Р”Р‡ire Storm lets you decide if you want to burn the plants or not, over wise flammable objects that are not being worn or carried ignite.

A lantern is something created.Р”Р‡ire Bolt could target the barrel, but as long as it is being carried it won't ignite. Although Miriam-Webster gives an out for the hair-splitting rules lawyer the firstР’В definition it gives for creature is 'something created either animate or inanimate'. It's a glowing dart of magical force, but it can't target non-creatures. Another one that gets me is that Magic Missile can only target 'creatures', so you can't hit a lantern with a Magic Missile to spill burning oil all over the place. Fireball doesn't set your clothes on fire, but Invisibility makes them invisible along with the rest of you. Like worn and carried objects not being affected by spells, except when they are. I am all for suspension of disbelief but that addendum to fire spells is immersion breaking at best.Р”В&D magic has some oddities to be sure. Sure you'll burn, but that barrel is perfectly fine, and so is your clothing, so just your hands and face are burnt, the rest of you is fine. You know, in real life a wooden barrel hit by a flamethrower would ignite, but this is D&D, you want to save that wooden barrel from burning, pick it up. Now, the thing about this is it punishes intelligent and tactical thinking. It doesn't matter that it was filled with oil, that it's made of wood, and that the spell cast was fire. Just because the barrel was being carried it is untouched, as per RAW. The underlined part is the bit I have issue with. The wooden barrel drops to the ground unharmed, the Golem reels in pain and Jorim is shoved by the Golem falling 40 feet to the ground off the ramparts. His fingers fanning out as his thumbs meet, you've seen this before, he casts Burning Hands. Your friend, Jorim the Wizard, get's a crazy idea and charges at the Flesh Golem as it picks up another barrel.

You watch as the tents and materials within ignite.Р’В You know that this is going to make the siege take much longer as you're pretty certain that the weapons inside are going to be destroyed. You see an Flesh Golem hurl a large wooden barrel down, below you see the fires of your liege's army burst as the oil in the barrel ignites as it smashes into the ground.

Your party walks around the corner, exiting the tower on to the ramparts. However, I feel we are limited to a mechanical constraint in a game run mostly on imagination. I hope you caught the sarcasm dripping off my post.Р”Р„s to your decisions, they're valid and they're probably the better choices by RAW. Are you going to tell me with a straight face that fire in 5e can't set other things on fire? Because we already established that torches don't. Scorching Ray says you create three rays of fire. By RAW a torch can't light a fire, because nothing in RAW says you can light a fire with a tinderbox 'and in 5e if something isn't in the rules then it doesn't happen.' Is anyone seriously going to argue that a torch can't be used to light a fire just because RAW doesn't say you can? For example there are no rules for using a torch to set something on fire. There are an awful lot of things that do not have rules that characters are routinely allowed to do. Stating that if it isn't in the rules that you can do it you there for cannot is too extreme in my view. So the wizard isnРІР‚в„ўt risking starting a forest fire because of how the spell works. Scorching Ray doesnРІР‚в„ўt and in 5e if something isnРІР‚в„ўt in the rules then it doesnРІР‚в„ўt happen. Fire Bolt and Create Bonfire specify that they can catch items on fire.

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