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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6931321" data-attributes="member: 4937">Suffocation rules are fine for drowning, but terrible for death by strangulation.  The mechanism of death by strangulation is not the same as the mechanism of death by suffocation.I'm not nearly as worried as you are about the players performing stunts.  If the players can arrange to collapse a volcano and pour sea water directly into the magma chamber, I see no reason a realistic explosion should not occur even if the physics of the universe are slightly different from that of the real world.  If players can arrange to atomize flaming oil without igniting it, and only after it has reached a uniform density of fine droplets in a large volume, then spark the entire thing, I see no reason a thermobaric explosion should not result from this circumstances even though the physics of the imagined world are different from the real one.   For one thing, these things that are being proposed are so fantastically difficult that I can't imagine players pulling them off without equally grand and fantastic skills.   One doesn't produce a thermobaric explosion just by throwing some flour in the air and sticking a flame to it.   If a player wants to argue with me that he ought to be able to do that, then he better be prepared to take a handful of flour and a cigarette lighter out into the yard and demonstrate the principle for me.  I promise to simulate in game exactly whatever results he achieves, but if he's not prepared to do so, then he's going to have to accept my sense of how futile and difficult such a demonstration would be.There are no rules for millions of things that players might attempt to perform.  If you as a DM aren't prepared to handle those circumstances, and are giving recourse to saying things like "the books don't tell me how to handle this situation", then you are hampering your own development as a DM.</blockquote>

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