Originally Posted by etonbears
The Larian version of fireball looks like it coats everything in viscous burning goo; probably because they are simply reusing the mechanics of exploding barrels of viscous burning goo.

That could just be laziness; or it could be that for unexplained story reasons, the entire FR world around Baldur's Gate is somehow coated with viscous goo waiting to be set alight. smile


It's because what exploded was a barrel of flammable firewine.

https://youtu.be/XSc17QXxfyU?t=1613

Pause at 27:01, and you'll see spilling out over the ground is a bunch of orange/brown liquid, which quickly gets almost immediately consumed by fire. It looks exactly like the firewine which spills at 1:12:53.

MYSTERY SOLVED.