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<blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 8168385" data-attributes="member: 72555"><p>You chose to get close enough to the spores. That is where you lost.</p><p></p><p>Again, the DM can say "rocks fall, everyone dies". If they gave no way for PCs to know that rocks would fall, then they kill the PCs.</p><p></p><p>If they gave ways for the PCs to work it out that rocks would fall, or that there would be a risk, then that is a hazard.</p><p></p><p>Then you add in a save for PCs to survive <em>despite already having failed</em>. So now it is "rocks fall, save vs rocky death".</p><p></p><p>The DM should still make it possible in world to know of the rock fall danger. Was the tunnel so unstable sound could make it fall? Then a silence spell (for example) or carefully removing your metal armor and muffling your footfalls would avoid the hazard.</p><p></p><p>Having breathed yellow spores, you lost the pre-mitigation game. Having lost, you have a chance to not lose they character, but it isn't a great one.</p><p></p><p>This requires using yellow mold as a hazard more than as a monster.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NotAYakk, post: 8168385, member: 72555"] You chose to get close enough to the spores. That is where you lost. Again, the DM can say "rocks fall, everyone dies". If they gave no way for PCs to know that rocks would fall, then they kill the PCs. If they gave ways for the PCs to work it out that rocks would fall, or that there would be a risk, then that is a hazard. Then you add in a save for PCs to survive [I]despite already having failed[/I]. So now it is "rocks fall, save vs rocky death". The DM should still make it possible in world to know of the rock fall danger. Was the tunnel so unstable sound could make it fall? Then a silence spell (for example) or carefully removing your metal armor and muffling your footfalls would avoid the hazard. Having breathed yellow spores, you lost the pre-mitigation game. Having lost, you have a chance to not lose they character, but it isn't a great one. This requires using yellow mold as a hazard more than as a monster. [/QUOTE]
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