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<blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 7144782" data-attributes="member: 5890">1. A firebolt does 1d10 damage, or the same amount of damage that a not-particularly burly guy would do with an axe (ie - battleaxe held in two hands). In my mind, this would take a long time to hack a door down, so straight out blasting the door down would take a comparable amount of time.2. Flammable does not mean what you think it means. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammability" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammability</a> . A door (or wood in general) is combustible - it can burn, but won't ignite easily. Gunpowder is flammable, because it will ignite very easily. Amusingly enough, liquid petroleum doesn't qualify as flammable by most standards, because it's actually really hard to ignite as a liquid: you have to turn it into vapour first. Here's a fun set of tables : <a href="http://www.tcforensic.com.au/docs/article10.html" target="_blank">http://www.tcforensic.com.au/docs/article10.html</a>. Note that anything which doesn't ignite below 60 degrees celsius doesn't count as flammable.3. A burning door produces lots of smoke, noise and light, and takes a long time to burn through. If you're running published modules, this isn't a big deal, because most published modules assume a static dungeon. If your DM is anything like me, then not only are you likely to provoke a response from anything intelligent within the dungeon, you'll probably get the 4/5ths of creatures that aren't standing around uselessly in the dungeon coming home ready for a rumble...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Saeviomagy, post: 7144782, member: 5890"] 1. A firebolt does 1d10 damage, or the same amount of damage that a not-particularly burly guy would do with an axe (ie - battleaxe held in two hands). In my mind, this would take a long time to hack a door down, so straight out blasting the door down would take a comparable amount of time. 2. Flammable does not mean what you think it means. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammability[/url] . A door (or wood in general) is combustible - it can burn, but won't ignite easily. Gunpowder is flammable, because it will ignite very easily. Amusingly enough, liquid petroleum doesn't qualify as flammable by most standards, because it's actually really hard to ignite as a liquid: you have to turn it into vapour first. Here's a fun set of tables : [url]http://www.tcforensic.com.au/docs/article10.html[/url]. Note that anything which doesn't ignite below 60 degrees celsius doesn't count as flammable. 3. A burning door produces lots of smoke, noise and light, and takes a long time to burn through. If you're running published modules, this isn't a big deal, because most published modules assume a static dungeon. If your DM is anything like me, then not only are you likely to provoke a response from anything intelligent within the dungeon, you'll probably get the 4/5ths of creatures that aren't standing around uselessly in the dungeon coming home ready for a rumble... [/QUOTE]

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