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Environmental Hazards
I am making this post for actual ideas and discussion, NOT A FLAME WAR! If you don’t like someone’s idea, then ignore it, or come up with a reason why it might not work and offer some helpful criticism.
This is the topic that my friends wish was not a thing
because I’m that friend that will help you with just about anything and even
stop what I’m doing just to help. At the same time shove you off a cliff, let
loose a trap on your head, flood a room you are passing through with poison, or
stun you in a corner and watch an enemy kill you, because it’s hilarious to
watch your corpse fall and hear your reaction 
What I want to see is:
-cliffs you can actually fall off of or shove people off
-acid or fire lakes that actually burn you and you are not immune because “magic”
-lava that will incinerate you
-ice storms that actually slow you down or even freeze you
-objects such as rocks and trees that will fall on you and damage or kill you
-water possibly slowing you down because you are wet
This is my list of stuff, lets see what else you guys can come up with
Comments
And to add to this, what if staying long time the desert would cause overheating that would deal some damage unless propperly equiped. Or it could be limited to only some part of desert or could be caused by some boss monster in the area.
On the flip side though, class utility spells to ignore and or mitigate some of these would be amazing. Magelight giving a warmth effect for example. Removing the slow from a snow area.
I want to see is a mechanic to overpass these. Like I'm a mage and I can shoot fireballs from by spellbook, what's the logic me getting frozen by a blizzard? Maybe clerics blessing us with God's Will and we've been protected from hazards. Or with a special elixir we can be invincible against lava etc.
Without hazards the world will be boring and static and the DnD adventurer in me will be sad.
We can expect to see all those things ingame.
But definitely the storms could be awesome like a real blizzard where you literally freeze to death if you don't escape it or hide or twisters, thunder etc.
*Slow from snow => snow shoes/ build a dog sled and make my pets pull it
*Acid in the way => glass bottom boats or a pulley system (like a ski lift)
Below are my ... " ideas "
- https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/10066/further-emphasis-on-well-established-concepts#latest
- https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/10057/further-emphasis-on-well-established-concepts#latest
( it was an attempt to repost my original post ... by which the " Forums-Monster " devoured it ... and had to remember what i typed ... bless the Old-forums > .< )Fixed.
But....lets have gods throwing tantrums and mountains at each other, earthquakes because they're getting frisky, flash floods because they wanted a wash etc etc
So whilst I think you're wonderful, I'm not yet convinced that your farts could generate hurricanes....
Wait.... *considers recent global weather events*
What's your diet been like recently?