FormerlyHemlock
Hero
Is it though? Sounds like I'm super dead either way.
Maybe. Neither one is a guaranteed kill; but most of the ways to survive the former fail when you're attacked by the latter. (And it gets even worse if a Dispel Magic is included in the trap.) E.g. a Long Death monk (11th+ level) could survive being dropped into lava pretty easily--he'd lose a bunch of HP and a ki point and just run right back up the chute he dropped through. But an insane Long Death monk can't teleport himself back to his point of origin, and by the time he regains his sanity he is almost or entirely out of ki, and then he dies. A mid-level wizard might be able to survive the lava with Absorb Elements and the right combination of stats, and teleport back up--but if he's insane he can't teleport, so he'll just die the second round.
I think you mean True Strike here.
You are correct.