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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ProphetSword" data-source="post: 6891433" data-attributes="member: 79912">The game has an issue with the mechanics of lava and the assumption of how it should be roleplayed.Lava damage.  The rules in the DMG about improvising damage suggest that "wading through a lava stream" would do 10d10 damage (average 50), and being "submerged in lava" would do 18d10 (average 90).In real life:  Lava can reach up to 1200 degrees fahrenheit.  Long before you could even "wade" or be "submerged" into the lava, you would be dead from the heat, noxious fumes and thermal radiation.  Lava causes 4th degree burns (which means it burns straight into the muscle and bone).  Bones crack under the pressure, cells boil, etc. A high level fighter with 150 hit points is not going to shrug off 90 points of lava damage.</blockquote>