GURPS Magic clarification: Fire Cloud & Starting Fires

This clarification is for DF Felltower.

Add the following sentence to the end of the spell description:

"Damage from Fire Cloud is treated normally for setting fires."

In other words, a level 3+ Fire Cloud will partially light up clothes, etc. per the usual GURPS rules (p. B434 or DFRPG Exploits, p. 68), assuming a full turn spent in the area of the spell. It takes a level 6 Fire Cloud (and thus Magery 6*) to do that to anything that passes through the area effect. The note about lighting the easily ignited happens if the subject spends any part of a turn in a Fire Cloud area effect, regardless of the intensity of the damage inflicted - even a 1-point Fire Cloud is sufficient.


* We always allow all spells to cap at the level Magery if it exceeds the listed spell maximum.