Li Shenron
Legend
Please someone tell me if it's only because I cannot find this in the 3.5 SRD!
In 3.0 a Cone was defined so that the range was the height of the cone and the width at the end of the range itself (something like a sector of a circle with 27degrees of opening).
In 3.5 a Cone is defined as a quarter circle, that is 90degrees of opening.
Since most of the Cone spells seems to have now a fixed range instead of Close, they don't improve with caster level but they still cover an area which is about 3 times as before! Although it is possibly more difficult to use a Cone spell in combat since it may be more difficult than before to avoid hitting your friends.
(I thought of this when looking at Color Spray, which IMHO was already a very nice 1st level spell since it retained at higher levels the good usefulness of at least dazing many creatures of any HD for a round.
The 3.5 Color Spray has only 15ft range but also the limit of 1d6 creatures is no more!)
In 3.0 a Cone was defined so that the range was the height of the cone and the width at the end of the range itself (something like a sector of a circle with 27degrees of opening).
In 3.5 a Cone is defined as a quarter circle, that is 90degrees of opening.
Since most of the Cone spells seems to have now a fixed range instead of Close, they don't improve with caster level but they still cover an area which is about 3 times as before! Although it is possibly more difficult to use a Cone spell in combat since it may be more difficult than before to avoid hitting your friends.
(I thought of this when looking at Color Spray, which IMHO was already a very nice 1st level spell since it retained at higher levels the good usefulness of at least dazing many creatures of any HD for a round.
The 3.5 Color Spray has only 15ft range but also the limit of 1d6 creatures is no more!)
