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<blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 7143619" data-attributes="member: 40176">Have you ever lived or visited somewhere with a real log fire, or been camping and had a campfire? Have a think about how many hours' worth of fuel an entire sturdy door's worth of logs would provide. Then consider that it's going to burn more slowly than that if it's one lump rather than chopped into logs.Now consider how important chimneys are when setting a fire in any enclosed environment. Without the right ventilation, all the smoke from that fire is going to end up in the corridor the PCs are standing in, and there's going to be a lot of it - enough to fill whole rooms and passageways. Anyone who needs to breathe isn't going to be able to stand there and monitor how well the fire is burning, they're going to have to be well back, a few corridors away on the other side of a closed doo- oh, wait, they burned those doors too, didn't they? So, no way to close off the encroaching smoke.If there's enough ventilation, the fire may be able to draw more oxygen and keep burning. If not, it'll stifle in its own smoke.And what's on the other side of that door? The PCs don't know, there's a door in the way. If the next room contains a lot of flammable materials, anything or anyone valuable in there is going to be destroyed by the time they get through. If the decorating style beyond that door is no longer bare stone, there's every chance that the fire could grow and spread out of control through much of the rest of the complex before the PCs even see the other side of that door.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MarkB, post: 7143619, member: 40176"] Have you ever lived or visited somewhere with a real log fire, or been camping and had a campfire? Have a think about how many hours' worth of fuel an entire sturdy door's worth of logs would provide. Then consider that it's going to burn more slowly than that if it's one lump rather than chopped into logs. Now consider how important chimneys are when setting a fire in any enclosed environment. Without the right ventilation, all the smoke from that fire is going to end up in the corridor the PCs are standing in, and there's going to be a [i]lot[/i] of it - enough to fill whole rooms and passageways. Anyone who needs to breathe isn't going to be able to stand there and monitor how well the fire is burning, they're going to have to be well back, a few corridors away on the other side of a closed doo- oh, wait, they burned those doors too, didn't they? So, no way to close off the encroaching smoke. If there's enough ventilation, the fire may be able to draw more oxygen and keep burning. If not, it'll stifle in its own smoke. And what's on the other side of that door? The PCs don't know, there's a door in the way. If the next room contains a lot of flammable materials, anything or anyone valuable in there is going to be destroyed by the time they get through. If the decorating style beyond that door is no longer bare stone, there's every chance that the fire could grow and spread out of control through much of the rest of the complex before the PCs even see the other side of that door. [/QUOTE]

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