Fireball wrecking damage

Eh, it always seemed to me that fireball isn't really that good when compared to CC.

 

Y'all evil.

 

Of course he was... then as we were going thru all our items, he was always asking, "how are you able to carry all this stuff?"

 

I would be OK with this if it would be possible to dump our money into a chest for safe keeping.

If we are going to pretend our coin purse is an unlimited bag-of-holding-wallet because we can't store it anywhere, then why is it subject to destruction when we don't have the possibility of banking it or storing it?

 

Coins depending on what metal they are made from might melt (not likely as they would be in a leatherpouch, a leather moneygirdle or in a backpack and not directly exposed to the fireball blast) - but in a society where there is no central bank and no "worthless" coins that only have value because the central bank says so and the people trust in the money, but coins made from metals like gold, silver, copper or electrum, have the same worth as a coin, a damaged coin or a coin molten into a blob - because in ancient times the worth of a coin was the worth of the rare metals weight in the coin.

 

Yes, I agree. I thought about that too.

But coins could melt and mix with dirt, so it is viable possibility too. In any case, I'm still not sure what would be the best route here.

Thank you for your feedback!

 

Fireball is powerful in ToEE because of the many weak creatures in it! Beyond that, it's normally a guaranteed damage AoE spell that's situationally worth a level 3 spell slot. Also note that fire is the most commonly-resisted energy type, and it already has plenty of counters.

Also note that the first time I beat ToEE was with a group of 5 Wizards who spammed magic missile and fireball because I was so tired of missing!

As I mentioned elsewhere, in short, in ToEE and in general, there are best practices. Properly learning and using these practices rewards you with benefits.

PS: Normally, players never want to choose between winning and keeping their treasure!

 

coins melted into a blob would not lose any value since for a few thousand years(i.e since the invention of coins) any (relatively)honest merchant would have a weights and measures set due to the common practice of debasing and/or clipping of coinage

gems on the other hand....

 

Yep. That what balance is about. And trade offs make a game more interesting.

 

Some of my favorite modules to play in or run are the ones that list things that can go wrong if AoE spells are used
A lightning bolt in an Old Alchemy lab, what could possibly go wrong

 

That sounds just like what happend to Barry Allen (Flash)...

 

A major problem with any ability destroying treasure is that this ability destroyed a player's reward (treasure)! This means to a typical player, that ability (or the game or class that uses it in general) is bad and thus shouldn't be used! It's effectively a trap option. This is one reason people hated Sunder and Mordenkainen's Disjunction in 3.5.