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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Camelot" data-source="post: 5091598" data-attributes="member: 82617">The thing with 4e is that you always encounter challenges that you can overcome.  At level 1, you won't find a pit of lava that does 20d10 damage if you were to touch it because you might actually touch it.  If you're fighting around lava at level 1 where you might often end up in the lava, it would probably only do 2d6 + 3 or something. However, that doesn't mean that sometimes lava is more harmful than other times.  It could be taken as a metaphor somehow, in which your character is always affected equally by environments (lava always does about 1/3 of your hp damage), but you get stronger than some monsters and try to reach the strength level of other monsters (don't ask me to explain this metaphor, I really don't know what I'm talking about here).  But rather (now I do know what I'm talking about) it should be that at level 1, you don't come across something so deadly as pools of lava.  You come across smoldering embers maybe, but the lava is reserved for paragon and then the antimatter shows up in epic tier. So, to answer your question, the lava does however much damage it needs to do.  There should not be one set number for all lava everywhere.</blockquote>