Falling into water?

[Wiggimuck]

Has anyone found a 4e rule for damage when falling into water? In 3e the damage for falling into water was much less than for falling onto hard surfaces, but I can't seem to find anything about it in the 4e books.

 

[Dalzig]

There isn't one.

I'd just go with the 3.5 one if you want to do it.

 

[ValhallaGH]

I'd just house rule that a fall into water does one less die of damage (assuming the water is at least 10% of the fall distance or 30 feet deep, whichever is less).

From high enough, hitting water is indistinguishable from hitting concrete. Something to keep in mind when creating house rules.

 

[Mort_Q]

What would happen in a movie? That's my approach. Unrealistic, but cinematic!

 

[Wiggimuck]

There would be a big splash but no injury, allowing the hero to swim to safety.

 

[keterys]

I was thinking halve the distance - that said, it might be more reasonable to subtract some static amount off. What distances do people dive into pools... google says 10m is the high dive for olympics, so that suggests that a 30 foot drop into deep water should probably not count as damage for D&D purposes.

 

[Roger]

If I were inclined to house rule this, which I'm not sure I am, I might try:

Existing Rule:

* Athletics Skill: Reduce Falling Damage: Free action if you fall or a move action if you jump down. Damage Reduced: Make an Acrobatics check, and reduce the amount of falling damage you take by one-half your check result (round down).

House Rule:

* Reduce the amount of falling damage by your check result if you fall into water.



Cheers,
Roger

 

[FadedC]

There should probably be some static height at which you don't take any falling damage in water. I've jumped off cliffs into the water from a good distance up (at least high dive height maybe a little more) and I wasn't diving, just stepping off. I did scrape a small amount of skin off my foot once when it hit at a bad angle, so it would probably hut a bit if I landed completely wrong.....but certainly nothing life threatening.

Of course this was all years ago, so my memory of it may not be 100% accurate.

 

[Wiggimuck]

Ok so I found a couple places where there are rules for falling onto softer surfaces.

[SBLOCK=Spoilers] DMG page 212, falling into the green sludge is only 1d10-2.

Keep on the Shadowfell page 77, a 50 ft fall into a pool of blood is only 3d10. [/SBLOCK]