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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6558180" data-attributes="member: 4937">Of course there isn't.  It's impossible to swim in lava, not because lava is hot, but because lava is extremely dense - in some cases denser even that rock - and extremely viscous.   Lava is so viscous that it makes peanut butter seem really mobile.  It takes tremendous force to bend lava.  As such, even though lava is a fluid, hitting it with something like a club wouldn't make much impression and almost everything floats on top of lava without sinking in the slightest.  Lava under stress or violent motion might flow over the top of something like a wave might, but a human body that magically did not burn would float on top of lava as buoyantly as a cork or Styrofoam on top of water.  It would be literally impossible to sink into lava, much less swim in it, and if you fell down and hit it, it wouldn't splash like water or even part like oil - you might as well be hitting concrete or steel.  Very hot lava under very high pressure - as in the cauldron of an erupting volcano - looks superficially like water.  But in many cases those 'splashes' and 'drops' are as dense and heavy as rock (those that aren't, and are well mixed with air, form pumice) and as sharp as glass, and as such wouldn't splash when they hit you, but would hit you like superheated sling stones.   The problem here is the human mind is intuitive and not particularly good at imagining things outside of its daily experience.As for 'unplayable', I guess it depends on the sort of game you are going for, but I'd suggest that a game that didn't penalize swimming while encumbered probably didn't have 'realism' on its list of supported game play styles or even consider 'swimming' something PC's were likely to do very often.   Fortunately, there are probably fairly easy fixes here if you want to do so.</blockquote>

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