Need More Power - giving fireball more boom

[timm meyers]

Originally Posted by Drakenbow

I have been looking at how TFT spells shift from having a one hex effect to a 7-hex effect cost-wise for the caster's ST.

• *Fire 1 > 4
  *Illusion 2 > 5
  *Wall 2 > 6
  *Sleep 3 > 8
  *Avert 2+1 > 3+1
  *Image 1 > 4
  *Shadow 1 > 3
  *Freeze 4 > 12

The average upgrade is about 3 times the base cost to make a 1-hex into a 7-hex. Now applying that to a Fireball, it seems like a nice upgrade to allow for a caster to power-up from hitting one hex to hitting a megahex but spending 3 ST per die rolled (maximum of 3 dice rolled).

Has anyone tried this as a House Rule or something like it?

A logical addition.
I would just write a fire blast multihex ball spell as you described and add it to the spell list at a higher IQ.
Using the comparison of the above spells greater IQ requirements seems like a +5 level or IQ 17 would be appropriate. This would also give the low-level wizard that learns fireball to get the expanded version (same as 1 hex spell to 3 hex to 7 hex) for free when they reach their higher IQ.

[Drakenbow]

Originally Posted by timm meyers

A logical addition.
I would just write a fire blast multihex ball spell as you described and add it to the spell list at a higher IQ.
Using the comparison of the above spells greater IQ requirements seems like a +5 level or IQ 17 would be appropriate. This would also give the low-level wizard that learns fireball to get the expanded version (same as 1 hex spell to 3 hex to 7 hex) for free when they reach their higher IQ.

I consider Blast to a degree as an IQ 12 spell when looking at this 7-hex missile spell bump-up. For a max damage of 1+0 at a cost of 2 ST and a range zero for the MH the caster is standing in but does not harm the caster. It is the same IQ as Fireball. It does slightly better than what a one-die Fireball-ball would at 3 ST - more like a one-die Lightningbolt-ball. As a House Rule, I would consider allowing Blast to be increased in the number of dice.

But yes, the question of an appropriate IQ.