5e smoke inhalation?

Agglomérante · Dec 7, 2014

I figure the easiest ruling is poisoned condition, but smoke eventually kills.

Anybody have smoke inhalation rules from old editions? Mine are buried in storage.

Agglomérante · Dec 7, 2014

Found some 3.5e rules on the SRD:

Smoke Effects

A character who breathes heavy smoke must make a Fortitude save each round (DC 15, +1 per previous check) or spend that round choking and coughing. A character who chokes for 2 consecutive rounds takes 1d6 points of nonlethal damage.

Smoke obscures vision, giving concealment (20% miss chance) to characters within it.

http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Environment#Smoke_Effects

Agglomérante · Dec 7, 2014

Often smoke incapacitates so quickly that people are overcome and can’t make it to an otherwise accessible exit

http://www.nfpa.org/press-room/reporters-guide-to-fire-and-nfpa/consequences-of-fire

Still, two rounds is too fast to start rolling damage. An average human has 3 hp and isn't going to fall unconcious after 12 seconds in heavy smoke. This is from an article on the toxicology of smoke inhalation from a firefighter's website:

Early signs of toxic exposure include a decrease in cognitive ability, hypotension, confusion, anxiety, a decreased level of consciousness, a rapid pulse, poor tissue perfusion, rapid breathing, and dyspnea.

Dyspnea is shortness of breath.

So all of that stuff precedes passing out from lack of oxygen.

Edit: found this quote ...

Fire officers told me on three occasions that her decision was critical as smoke inhalation kills in two minutes.

http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/10905862.print/

So damage starts after 2 minutes in the smoke.

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