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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pickles JG" data-source="post: 6474355" data-attributes="member: 61501">Actually I played Rolemaster in the 80s where the challenges got harder the more skilled the players got. It always has been in D&D as regards monsters & in the ealry days player as opposed to PC abilities overcame other challenges so it was not relevant. 4e sold it terribly. The should be that the doors higher level PCs meet are made of tougher stuff & so produce more of a challenge not that they must have appropriate challenge for the players level. Of course PCs can & do encounter "level inappropriate" stuff but then it is either a none event to be narrated over or an insurmountable obstacle. It seems a very reasonable omission from the DMG as it has never come up in all the years I have been playing (obviously using movie burny fires rather than realistic smoke kills you fires)The answer to the original post would depend on what you are trying to achieve. Are you trying to simulate firefighting in a sort of realistic way or create an interesting environment for one big set piece scene or string of scenes? Are you going filling out world rules & creating some sort of precedent or just specifics for a one off situation?The game is a million miles away from realistic so pretty much anything that seems suitably scary/challenging/funny or whatever you are trying to capture could work.</blockquote>