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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3295424" data-attributes="member: 4937">Unfortunately, even this isn't true.  In D&D, 'fire' is a material object made up of fire atoms.  When something gets hot in D&D, it actually gets more massive.  (It does not however get heavier.  I leave the explanation for this up to the interested student.)This is actually closer to the truth, but not exactly.  When fire is added directly to water, or vica versa, they mutually annihilate (they are opposing elements on the elemental table) and release positive and negative elemental energy (slightly more positive than negative, but also slightly less positive energy than was required to produce the fire and water atoms in the first place).  The negative elemental energy and the positive elemental energy then quickly annihilate each other producing secondary cascades that are for these purposes irrelevant.  Eventually the negative elemental energy is completely consumed by the excess positive.  But since the net positive energy has decreased the net energy of the 'water + fire' system has decreased.  The positive energy then recombines with the remaining water (fire is the lightest of 4 elementals and thus most easily destroyed) to produced quasielemental mist, and templates on the environment to produce cascades of (most typically) fire and water.Note that this violates all sorts of things we'd think of in this universe as the 'laws of physics'.  For example, mass and energy have been destroyed.  The net mass and energy of the fire + water system is slightly less than before.This is one of the reasons why you can't just mix up gunpowder in a D&D and expect it to work just because that's how gunpowder is made in this universe.</blockquote>

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