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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Watus" data-source="post: 1514079" data-attributes="member: 14589">I guess I would handwave it under most circumstances, but in this case I feel this should represent a fairly tense encounter, though not most intense of the session.The situation, for those unfamiliar with the scenario, is this: it's the middle of the night and the characters are trapped in a highway rest stop by a freak snowstorm.  Trapped along with them are a whacked out cultist and an object he greatly desires.  After several failed attempt to recover the item, he determines to drive everyone out of the building and into the arms of his frosty ally by lighting a fire in the convenience store.  That is to say, he douses the magazine rack with some gasoline and applies a match.  Now, it's reasonable to assume that he doesn't do a very good job, because let's face it: he ain't that bright.  I mean, how is he going to look for this thing while the building's on fire?  Still... this sounds like it would represent a fairly significant threat.Treating the fire like a creature is an idea that hadn't actually occurred to me.  If I give it some hit points and the ability to regenerate and an attack which allows it to ignite adjascent squares, that might work.  Or it could go horribly awry and force me to fudge my a$$ off.  But still... it's the idea that most closely matches the notion of the encounter I have in my head...If anyone else has any ideas, I'd be glad to hear them.</blockquote>

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