New experiences with an old game...DM

[slickrcbd]

Unless you split them by killing one or more of the creatures in the group. A fireball can turn a group of four trollins into a single trollin.

On the subject of creature generators, I've often wondered what it is that triggers Fire Elementals to respawn - sometimes a new one pops up as soon as you kill the previous one, but sometimes they stay dead for ages. Maybe they slowly regenerate over time and "queue up", respawning instantly when killed until you reach the end of the "queue" and it has to wait out the timer to pop up another one.

I could have sworn that a fireball spell will cause them to respawn, and that includes the ones lobbed by the demons.

[ChristopheF]

Fireball do not hurt black flames or make them respawn, actually they heal them!

[Gambit37]

Yep, I remember discovering this by accident years ago. Such a clever little secret they hid there. I love how FTL hid logical actions like that.

[Ameena]

Oh, I didn't know Fireballs would heal them - I know they're non-material so I know not to bother using Fireballs on them at all, though, so maybe that's never come up (and I'm not sure it would be obvious they'd been healed anyway - it's not like they have any hitpoint indicators ).