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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6292120" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>I've burned quite a bit of pine needles in my day.  Pine needles do go up really fast, but they also only burn hot for a few rounds and produce nice safe 'black' ground in their wake.  Most D&D characters can readily survive a detritus fire like that, even if most real people (low level commoners and experts) wouldn't.  The big danger IMO is young dry trees that will quickly spread the fire up into their branches.   If there has been rain recently, this fire is likely to go out without spreading very far.  But if everything is dry, the risk is the fire won't necessarily stay on the ground - in fact, with the webs as 'ladder' its pretty much gauranteed not to.  That's when it gets nasty and even high level characters are going to die without special resources.</p></blockquote><p></p>