but it deals damage in a big sphere… logically it has to explode, right
It doesn’t do any special damage or bypass hardness of objects, so that doesn’t sound like an explosion except in “flavor” text. At least it ignites objects, which it didn’t do in previous editions.
Huh?
Could you explain this because it’s very confusing. Or are we not talking 5E?
It’s a fireball… that has a big AoE. So if it’s a roughly hand sized sphere but it deals damage in a big sphere… logically it has to explode, right?
Beyond that it’s got the word “explosion” in the spell description, at least on dnd beyond.
It doesn’t do any special damage or bypass hardness of objects, so that doesn’t sound like an explosion except in “flavor” text. At least it ignites objects, which it didn’t do in previous editions.