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<blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 8984783" data-attributes="member: 54629">I had not envisioned the lava as having a crust. For one, it is described as providing illumination in the otherwise unlit dungeon. It also has lava children playing and swimming in it. Granted, these are elemental creatures that can move through metal, but still …Today I learned that lava is more viscous than water and people don’t sink into it. I expect you’d sink in a little if you fell from a height of 30 feet, but even so … I am more willing to allow the magic items to escape destruction in this case. All mundane gear, plus potions and scrolls will be gone, though.(And yes, I did apply 30 feet of falling damage.)Also, fair enough to all who said I made the ruling and should move on.EDIT: As for that banana, I’d like to see what happens if it gets tossed into the lava pool in the volcano’s crater rather than onto a crusty bit of hardening lava flow at the edges. (The trap drops PCs into the middle of a lake of lava, not onto a crusty lava flow.)While that shows that you don’t sink, it also backs up the idea that all the things you are wearing and carrying would burst into flames and be incinerated within seconds.I won’t retcon my ruling, but I still don’t get why everyone is so precious about magic items, especially when the 5e rules state that they’re not indestructible. If anyone’s changing the rules, it’s you guys who make them automatically indestructible just because they’re being worn or carried by a PC.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pukunui, post: 8984783, member: 54629"] I had not envisioned the lava as having a crust. For one, it is described as providing illumination in the otherwise unlit dungeon. It also has lava children playing and swimming in it. Granted, these are elemental creatures that can move through metal, but still … Today I learned that lava is more viscous than water and people don’t sink into it. I expect you’d sink in a little if you fell from a height of 30 feet, but even so … I am more willing to allow the magic items to escape destruction in this case. All mundane gear, plus potions and scrolls will be gone, though. (And yes, I did apply 30 feet of falling damage.) Also, fair enough to all who said I made the ruling and should move on. EDIT: As for that banana, I’d like to see what happens if it gets tossed into the lava pool in the volcano’s crater rather than onto a crusty bit of hardening lava flow at the edges. (The trap drops PCs into the middle of a lake of lava, not onto a crusty lava flow.) While that shows that you don’t sink, it also backs up the idea that all the things you are wearing and carrying would burst into flames and be incinerated within seconds. I won’t retcon my ruling, but I still don’t get why everyone is so precious about magic items, especially when the 5e rules state that they’re not indestructible. If anyone’s changing the rules, it’s you guys who make them automatically indestructible just because they’re being worn or carried by a PC. [/QUOTE]

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