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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3301246" data-attributes="member: 13966">I beg to differ.  Acid in D&D is a form of energy, not a mere chemical reaction.  It is the Earth element's equivalent of heat, cold, or electrical charge.  Acid is energized elemental Earth, or something similar in its relation to the Earth element of D&D.  Acid can damage some things that are otherwise immune to physical or nonmagical damage.  Fire is not a chemical reaction in D&D, either, it's a fundamental energy form that is part of the multiverse's basic composition, part of its very nature.  D&D needs no electromagnetic spectrum; energy forms in D&D are not confined to one-dimensional and cosmically-ignorant mortal ideas of how the multiverse works, and what it's made of.Things don't burn because of chemical reactions in D&D; they probably burn because the contact of one Fire-dominant mass or energy force with another mass or energy force that is either Fire-dominant or Fire-vulnerable triggers a combination of Fire essence that flares into a pure and destructive Fire manifestation.  Or something else that has only a marginal similarity to real-world physics, and is more the work of Nature's elemental forces and primal laws on how each element interacts with each other element, based on various factors in Nature's grand design.  Or whatever.  But real-world physics in D&D would only likely seem to work, and only in some obvious and simple ways, by coincidence (read: for the sole purpose of suspension of disbelief); Gravity in D&D may really just be a matter of elemental Earth attracting elemental Earth, or elemental Air opposing all that is not elemental Air.  Or whatever.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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