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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7732196" data-attributes="member: 29398">What I use isn't hard-and-fast; but there comes a point where I'll bypass hit points completely and either go to a straight save-or-die (on a made save you'll just take a boatload of damage and maybe still die) or straight to death if you'd clearly die even on a made save.Hit points are great for simulating combat where their loss reflects you getting nicked, bruised, fatigued from parrying and dodging, and so forth until the real damage sets in at the end.  But you can't dodge the planet, nor can you parry it - and hitting it at great speed will do far more than nick or bruise you (if you're not wearing decent armour a 100' fall onto flat concrete in the real world will likely spread parts of you over the nearby area; 50' onto a hard jagged surface ain't pretty either).Same thing for jumping into red flowing lava and assuming your ring of fire resistance is going to save you.  Sorry.  The absolute best you can hope for is to die just slightly more slowly than if you didn't have the ring; with the difference being little enough that someone watching from the shore probably wouldn't notice it.I'd say exactly the same thing - "that's what the dice are for" - but probably mean something completely different.Yes - if you-as-DM haven't described today's weather yet, assuming the PCs are able to observe it, then if-when someone asks about it you pull out some dice and roll on the weather tables you in theory have handy; with the roll (or your narration) maybe modified for continuity by yesterday's weather. (if it was rainy and cool yesterday the odds are just a little higher than usual it'll also be rainy and cool today, to reflect that it might be a pattern settling in rather than a passing phase)  But a player would never make this roll."There's some cloud, but it's not raining and there are patches of sunlight breaking through" tells me a lot as a player.  It tells me that if I really need to avoid the sun I'd best stay on the shady side of the hills (though for clarity I'd ask you about windspeed and-or how fast the clouds are moving - if they're moving quickly that makes it much more likely I'll get caught in the open by an unexpected sunny break - and here I-as-DM would have the player roll for their success in avoiding the sun); it also tells me that if I need clouds in the sky for a spell or whatever e.g. Call Lightning I have them available, and also that the sun is visible enough that I can use it for navigation and-or timekeeping if I need to.Lan-"being a life-long weather geek really has its uses in DMing"-efan</blockquote>

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