A Vital Issue

[Greg K]

If you're a 3rd edition-style PC, you get to make a Swim check. If you fail, you take 20d6 damage. If you succeed, you take half damage and Swim out of the lava.

Don't forget about massive damage. If you take 50 points or more of damage, you have to make a DC 15 Fortitude save or die regardless of hit points.

 

[trancejeremy]

please tell me this is an unfunny joke?

It's an unfunny meme, not a joke...

 

[Piratecat]

Actually, it's a hilarious meme. And a dreadfully important question!

Lava Rules! Fire and Brimstone - Expeditious Retreat Press | RPGNow.com

 

[El Mahdi]

WHY IS WOTC SILENT ON THIS ISSUE?!

Because Lava is a poor medium for transmission of vocalizations...


(*you can't hear them speak when they are submerged in Lava...)

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

If you're a 4th edition-style PC, you get to make a saving throw. If you fail, you take 5 ongoing fire damage. You may exit the lava pool as a minor action.

Actually, if you're a 4E PC, you die, save ends.

 

[Number48]

First you must calculate falling damage for the force of you hitting the lava, which is based on the sum total mass of your character and whatever it is carrying multiplied by the gravitational acceleration of your game's planet (taking minute adjustments into account for gravity's weakening as altitude increases). Refer to a logarithmic damage table to determine how many d7 dice to roll.

You missed the step for comparative hardness of landing surface.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Actually, if you're a 4E PC, you die, save ends.

Fall in Lava (At-Will, Free Action; Fire, Enviromental)
You fall into lava, your clothes and eventually your skin catch fire and you suffer grevious burns, and smoke fills your lungs, making you unable to breathe.
Effect: You die, save ends. Afteraffect: You're dead.

 

[Tallifer]

"Once per day, when you die..."

One of the best lines from Fourth Edition.

 

[Li Shenron]

You Fall in Lava, You Die. No Save.

Fire and Brimstone was the definitive product. WotC shouldn't need to release anything else.

No way... Fire and Brimstone needs a 5e conversion!