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Long narrow hallways are definitely
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where spells like lightning bolt and
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other line spells shine, but the vast
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majority of the time you're still going
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to get the same or better results from
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different area effects. Obviously, lines
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seem very cool in narrow hallways,
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narrow dungeon corridors, places like
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that where enemies have to file into a
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narrow space. And to make up for the
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fact that they're so narrow, line area
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effects very frequently are super long.
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So, if you have an impossibly long
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hallway, yes, lightning bolt may be
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fantastic if you can somehow convince
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all of your enemies to line up in the
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hallway, but you still face problems
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where other area effects could probably
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hit the same number of creatures.
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Fireball is the perfect example since
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you can easily compare fireball and
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lightning bolt. In the vast majority of
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dungeons where you have enemies lining
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up in some narrow hallway, the hallway
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isn't going to be long enough that
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lightning bolt is meaningfully better.
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you can just drop fireball in the middle
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of the group and all of the creatures in
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the area that would be hit by lightning
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bolt would also be hit by fireball. You
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have a limited number of spells that you
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can prepare in a given day. So bringing
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the one that gets the most value makes
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the most sense and very very rarely is a
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line spell going to get more value than
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a comparable spell of any other area
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effect. It's not impossible, but it is
