By RAW your intrepretation is incorrect Crisippo. Once again, people keep mistaking DB for an area affect spell. It is not. It is a targeted spell with the target being any number of creatures all of whom are within a 10-foot radius of the sorcorer.
If the scholar himself was a target then he would be specified as such. The line would read "The sorcorer and any creature withing a 10-foot radius of him ...". But thats not what it says.
You know. Sometimes I feel like DB is a bit of a roscharc test. How many people look at it and say "fireball" and how many look at it and say "unspecified close-range death magic". I wonder?
Later.
If the scholar himself was a target then he would be specified as such. The line would read "The sorcorer and any creature withing a 10-foot radius of him ...". But thats not what it says.
You know. Sometimes I feel like DB is a bit of a roscharc test. How many people look at it and say "fireball" and how many look at it and say "unspecified close-range death magic". I wonder?
Later.