Does Fire Resistance stop endurance checks for Heat?

[Stalker0]

Here's the question. If you are traveling in very hot conditions, you have to make endurance checks every so often or lose healing surges.

Let's say you have armor that provides fire resistance 5. Does that prevent the heat from effecting you?

I can see it 2 ways:

1) By the book, its not fire damage, so no protection.

2) The armor can protect you from the heat of fire...but not the general heat of the environment? Seems a little...strange.

 

[Dalzig]

Perhaps the armor can only protect you against flashes of fire? There, the danger is in your flesh burning. While in a desert environment, the main dangers are dehydration and heatstroke. Fire Resistance doesn't stop you from sweating.

Now, that explanation works for magic items / enchantments, but innate resistance is a bit more mind-boggling. Tieflings have Fire Resistance, yet can't stand the heat?

By RAW, resistance doesn't help unless the environment deals damage.

But perhaps a houserule might be in order. "For every X resistance you have, you gain a +Y bonus to endurance checks in environments of that nature." Hmm...

 

[Eldorian]

Here's the question. If you are traveling in very hot conditions, you have to make endurance checks every so often or lose healing surges.

Let's say you have armor that provides fire resistance 5. Does that prevent the heat from effecting you?

I can see it 2 ways:

1) By the book, its not fire damage, so no protection.

2) The armor can protect you from the heat of fire...but not the general heat of the environment? Seems a little...strange.

Ask a firefighter in his flame retardant suit if it gets hot in there. In fact, I'd go so far to say that you wouldn't want to wear a firefighter's suit in a dessert. Fire resistance could just mean flame retardant. It could mean well insulated too, so quick changes of temperature don't affect you, but persistent heat does.

 

[Lord Sessadore]

Ask a firefighter in his flame retardant suit if it gets hot in there. In fact, I'd go so far to say that you wouldn't want to wear a firefighter's suit in a dessert. Fire resistance could just mean flame retardant. It could mean well insulated too, so quick changes of temperature don't affect you, but persistent heat does.

I was going to suggest something similar - fire resistance is basically flame retardant or a higher point of combustion, or something along those lines. That way it keeps you safe from blasts of fire, but consistent high heat is still a threat.

Of course, someone might say we're thinking too hard about fantasy