Bucketlist - fireball a horde of orcs in ad&d 1e or B/X

Bucketlist - fireball a horde of orcs in ad&d 1e -- To nuke them all, damn it. Let’s go!

BTW, Is this sound effect good? 

AI trash art, but sort of looks like nuking a bunch of undead at least. 

For reference... yeah I got to play a little old school DnD back in the day, but I never got the mystical fireball or lightning bolt... never got to that point. Then finally did get it in 3.5e, I think(?) super briefly... was cool and all, but just not the same. Now in 5e, fireball is so damned weak compared to mega HP everything, it just isn't the same feeling whatsoever. Shoulda stayed 3.5e I bet. Oh well. 

BTW, the kid suggested when rolling a 1 on reflex save = crit fireball. Working both ways, similar to pathfinder. Sounds fun seeing that happen once every 4(?) weeks. But I don't know, that could be worse as a DM predicting damage output ... too dangerous to the party?

A quote from ENworld that grinds my gears because it's true and I don't like the reality of it:

"I think this is a common mistake when comparing editions. The role of a 1e magic-user was to blast monsters with high damage spells. The 5e wizard only fits that role as an evoker, other schools are more about controlling the battlefield or making other characters more effective."

Magic users got half the number of spell slots, and do about 1/3 the damage they used to do compared to HP bloat - you practically can only have 2 fights a day where spells can be cast as much as you want even at level 9. Only DPS cantrips make up for it, but we all know the Warlock's eldrich blast gets very boring very quickly. I don't know, I'm kinda getting sick of the way every character is almost playing the same role in 5e... don't need clerics, magicusers don't do enough burst DPS, rogues have no teeth apparently, don't even need rogues to pick locks or open chests, etc. I dunno, it's weird. 

And gear overlap goes along with the role overlap. Everybody can 

• everybody can use thief tools
• too easy to feat/background to get armor as a magicuser
• use magic rings and such to cast fireball(?) it seems like. Gotta double check. 
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