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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8984358" data-attributes="member: 18">Generally magic items on PCs aren't destroyed unless something explicitly says they are. Otherwise fireballs etc would constantly strip PCs naked and destroy their items.You already made the lava wildly more deadly than designed, and wildly more destructive in that it autodestroyed all non magic items (not at all realistic for a less than 6 second dip, I note - many metal objects should survive that though perhaps becoming unusable until the hardened lava is chipped off), so destroying their magic items seems like add insult to injury.More to the point, you already ruled one way. Backtracking on this sort of thing is very bad form. Even with groups who are very positively inclined to you it makes you look dithery and possibly kind of vindictive or capricious. Even if they say nothing and smile it will be remembered - and quite possibly deployed against villains or the like at an inopportune moment, or just silently and politely held against you. So I would strongly advise against it.Basically, destroying magic items when they weren't specifically targeted is a can of worms very much best left closed. And realism is another can of worms here - all realism says the PCs would be dead but that ain't D&D. Nor is vaping all their items realistic, but do we really want to go through and assess which it is realistic for? Can of worms.You ruled one way. Stick to your ruling and move on.Edit: Great answer from [USER=6801845]@Oofta[/USER] - as much as we disagree about stuff his DMing advice is consistently spot on!</blockquote>

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