Immersed in Lava - Have you ever seen it?

[Nareau]

The PC in question only took 24 points of damage. He was fine, despite my gleeful rolling of 20d6.

The player in question is one of my favorites. About every 4 or 5 sessions, he does something TOTALLY unexpected (like willingly diving into lava), and then proceeds to completely pull it off. Keeps the game very interesting for all involved.

Spider

 

[DragonLancer]

Only ever had it happen once and that was in a 2nd ed AD&D game. The party were working their way across a bridge over a vast lava flow to reach the fortress of their arch-nemesis, when one of the party was attacked by a Magma Golem. After a bit of a fight, the golem thumped him so hard that he went over the side and into the lava. Oddly enough, with his wounds he didn't survive.

 

[Henry]

The PC in question only took 24 points of damage. He was fine, despite my gleeful rolling of 20d6.

Now, was this "24" on the dice, or after all saves/magical protections?

If it was a 24 on 20d6, that's as impressive as rolling all 6's!

 

[Nareau]

24 after taking half damage thanks to Adapt Body, and having energy resistance 20.

Speaking of which--anybody know which should be applied first in such circumstances? I was feeling mean, so I had the resistance kick in before the half damage.

Total on the dice was 68, if I remember correctly. Which is just below average.

Spider

 

[Dagger75]

In my high level (20th level) D&D game the pool the players had to immerse themselves to gain epic levels was in a temple at the bottom of an active Volcano. They made a few magic items, Amulets od adaptations, Protection fire stuff, the druid just turned into a fire or Lava elemental.

Does that count.

 

[heirodule]

At Origins a few years ago my red dragon did a quickened breath weapon on the halfling paladin, snatched him, and dove into a lava lake.

I still feel slightly guilty, because immediately afterwards the marshall came by and called time on the slot.

No, the halfling didn't live.

What is it with you and killing PCs at Origins?



(The wizard who died trying to save the fighter from the Frost Giants, and took the whole smack from the ice-elemetal cryohydra)

 

[Aust Diamondew]

I like lava. It comes up at least once in awhile. One time of my PCs grappled the evil lich and then pushed himself and the lich off into a volcano. In 3e total immersion did 20d6 around instead of instant death. So as soon as the lich died the dwarf began flying up back through the lava. He was nearly dead when he reached the surface but he had made it.

 

[LordVyreth]

I had a PC fall into a lava stream due to a botched teleport, but he was a half-red dragon so he easily survived. His items didn't fare so well.

I'm not positive, but if you're immune to fire damage, doesn't that immunity affect your equipment as well? It would be pretty useless otherwise.

 

[radferth]

For those so uncouth as to let real world physics intrude, it is very hard to become immersed in lava. Liquid rock is just as dense as solid rock, so a person falling into lava would just float on top (20d6 still seems fine for this). I saw guy at some physics demo cook a hot dog in a pot of molten lead, and the hot dog just sat on the molten lead, not sinking a bit (lead in denser than most rock, but most rock is way denser than PCs). Of couse how can I convince anyone of this when Gollum sank right in in RotK.

 

[Morrus]

That's a tactic I've used many times with dragons - it's not always lava, though - with a black dragon it might be a lake of acid, for example. The dragon grabs a PC and then dives into the lake of lava/acid/whatever and uses grappling attacks to keep him down there. Nasty!