Do fireballs make a sound in AD&D?

[Japher]

Just add a cantrip to it and have it make any sound or be any color you want...

Does it actually really matter? Hopefully the sounds would be drowned out by the screaming of your vics

[Urban Ranger]

It does make a sound.

"Diediediediediediediediedie!"

[Dis]

1st edition?

[Jac de Molay]

I'm thinking a sort of rumbling whoosh, almost as if a magic-user conjures flammable materials out of thin air and releases them in a certain direction....

[Illuminatus]

Not sure about the fireballs, but those who are hit by it cetainly make a sound like "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaighhhh I am burning burning aaahhhahaa" [sound of smoking flesh] [sound of burning fire]

[Main_Brain]

I think the 'whooosh' Faction has definatly a Point.
But at Arrival it makes the Sound every Grilling Champion knows:
*poof*

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Re: Do fireballs make a sound in AD&D?

If it fells a tree in the middle of a forest and no ones around it makes no sound whatsoever.

Otherwise, theoritically the fireball itself makes no sound, but the air molecules and other effected matter around it could make a sound. The boom could be said to come from the super heated area vaporized by the fireball.

Then again, what difference does it make?

[Spiffor]

whooshpoof

[Urban Ranger]

Re: Re: Do fireballs make a sound in AD&D?

Originally posted by GhengisFarb
If it fells a tree in the middle of a forest and no ones around it makes no sound whatsoever.

Otherwise, theoritically the fireball itself makes no sound, but the air molecules and other effected matter around it could make a sound. The boom could be said to come from the super heated area vaporized by the fireball.

Then again, what difference does it make?

It could mean monsters in other areas of a dungeon is alarmed by the noise.

[OzzyKP]

When roleplaying geeks and physics geeks collide.

[The Mad Monk]

I don't think fireballs are hot enough to vaporize much.

[Dis]

in any case. Even if the fire itself doesn't make a sound, burning flesh certainly does.

I'd love to play a game in which you can hear the flesh sizzling

[General Ludd]

I've heard it described as making a noise in a Forgotten Realms book. Although I don't remember exactly what kind of noise, I think it was woosh followed by the "exoplosion" of everything in the room being incinerated.

[self biased]

i refuse to vote in this poll because it has no banana optino.

[Jamski]

Badger = Banana

I assume that any fireball that is powerful enough to destroy all the furniture and kill a load of gobins - or even quite tough creatures - is going to make a hell of a racket.

If its hot enough to kill stuff straight away, then it must heat the air very fast too - gives an explosive pressure wave, even without the initial explosion - however, we can assume an initial explosion because the fireball is not an instantly created spherical volume of fire, but a small point or ball of fire that then expands outwards to 30 feet, with a duration described as "instantanious". For a volume to expand from a point to a volume instantaniously a speed of near infinity is assumed. That will break the sound barrier and cause the "boom" sound associated with a grenade, for example.

-Jam