Without the right ventilation, all the smoke from that fire is going to end up in the corridor the PCs are standing in, and there's going to be a lot of it - enough to fill whole rooms and passageways. Now consider how important chimneys are when setting a fire in any enclosed environment. Then consider that it's going to burn more slowly than that if it's one lump rather than chopped into logs. Have you ever lived or visited somewhere with a real log fire, or been camping and had a campfire? Have a think about how many hours' worth of fuel an entire sturdy door's worth of logs would provide. 'killing' a wall can result in a collapse right on top of you), or they're smashing below-ground walls like cave walls, in which case 'killing' a wall is likely to just turn a solid wall into a wall of rubble which still has to be excavated before you can move through its space, and may also cause a collapse. A door is probably fine to just be blasted off its hinges, but if he or the barbarian starts smashing walls into rubble, one of two things is likely to be true: either they're smashing above-ground walls, some of which will turn out to be load-bearing (i.e. Dealing with that something may or may not be inconvenient for the players.

When you reduce a door or a wall to 0 HP, I guess that means it 'dies'-but it doesn't disappear. One final comment: if you reduce a creature to 0 HP, it doesn't disappear. Locked doors in dungeons should be similar in some way.Р”В«TW, I don't understand what you mean about 'no shiny moments for barbarians breaking the door.' The barbarian can destroy doors just as easily as the wizard can, obviously. Think about why car alarms exist: they're trying to scare off a would-be intruder by summoning help before he can manage to break into the car. The ideal place for a DM to put a locked door is when there is some kind of time pressure, whether that means 'roving patrols of guards' or 'you're trying to get out of the killbox but one of the bad guys locked the door on his way out.' Remember that locks are only ever designed to delay entry, not prevent it. So, there's a lot to think about, even If one finds it plausible to let the cantrip set the door on fire. finally, would not a fire hot enough to consume a dungeon door warn everybody in the vicinity through a combination of the conflagration, the smoke, noise, and heat? Ever light a large fire in an enclosed space? All it takes is one such situation in a while to make incautious adventurers think twice. and who says burning a door to bypass traps is always viable? Suppose the trap is a poison gas glass receptacle that's triggered by picking the wrong tumblers? It's pretty reasonable to assume a fire hot enough to consume a sturdy wooden door is hot enough to set off such a trap. Firebolt is a cantrip, not the Swiss Army knife of spells. So if it took 10 or 20 rounds or even more to burn down the door with a cantrip, it would be far easier to just have the rogue or barbarian do their thing.

You could either add AC or HP to the door, or more likely say the door is resistant or immune to the burst of fire. Therefore it's well within reason to say that something described as a 'mote of fire' (not even a stream of fire) is NOT going to effortlessly burn down a treated door. were often whitewashed to protect and sanitize.) Dungeon doors aren't exactly made of Balsa or plywood, they're built as part of some kind of fortification in most cases - very sturdy stuff. (Yes, it's kind of weird to think about dungeon doors being white, but pre-20th century buildings, doors, walls, etc. A Medieval-style or Renaissance-style door would probably have been treated with some sort of resin or varnish (sandarac, linseed, whitewash, etc) to protect against elements. 185 of the PH do say that the DM is the one who sets both the AC and HP for the door to be damaged, as well as any resistances or Immunities that the object in question may have. You have to remember that the rules on pg.

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