Fire Damage

[Hendrik]

Friends,

Is fire damage per action or per round?

Examples: unconscious in a burning room, wall of fire (warlock), pillar of flame (psi).

I am interested in your opinion (I) under canon (kindly give a reference) and (ii) your personal way of handling it.

Kindest regards,
Hendrik

[Jefffar]

It varies depending on the source.

Areas of flame I tend to give per melee. Interactive flaming objects I tend to do per action

[Library Ogre]

I lean towards per round, unless you're talking something that is more momentary... hitting someone with a torch is per action.

As to why per melee, consider two people. One has no hand to hand skill. The other is a 15th level character under a fleet feet spell. If being in fire damaged you per action, then the higher level character would take far more damage, from the same fire.

[kiralon]

If spell duration is instant, then per action.
If spell duration is longer, then damage when the spell is interacted with in a round but only once, so the first time you move into a wall of fire in a round you take damage, if you move out and back in again in a round you don't take the damage again, but if you are soaked in oil and on fire I do that damage at the end of every round after the initial one when its first occurs.

[The Dark Elf]

Per round

Unless Im running a game for you and then it's per everyone else's turn x2. Burn damn you burn! Mwahahahaha!