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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 7526091" data-attributes="member: 6796661">Heck it has happened in real life.  "U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Alan Magee fell out of a plane at 22,000 feet without a parachute while the plane was on fire....  Magee was knocked unconscious and thrown from the aircraft. When he woke up, he was falling through the air....  The young noncommissioned officer fell into the town of St. Nazaire and through the glass roof of the train station. He was later found dangling on the steel girders that supported the ceiling....[He] made a full recovery. He spent most of the rest of the war as a POW."  <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-the-wwii-gunner-who-fell-22000-feet-without-a-parachute-and-lived-2016-4" target="_blank">https://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-the-wwii-gunner-who-fell-22000-feet-without-a-parachute-and-lived-2016-4</a>Also in WWII: "Flight Sergeant Nicholas Stephen Alkemade (10 December 1922 – 22 June 1987) was a rear gunner in Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster heavy bombers during World War II, who survived—without a parachute—a fall of 18,000 feet (5500 m) when abandoning his out-of-control, burning aircraft over Germany." <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Alkemade" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Alkemade</a> This was in the real world with no healing magic. Of course, far more people die slipping on the ice on sidewalks or drown in shallow water than they do falling off high cliffs, but I never hear anyone claim about D&D being unrealistic because I don't require their characters to make a dex save with a small chance of drowning when getting into a hot bath.</blockquote>

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