Spells dealing cold damage. effects?

July 2024 ยท 2 minute read
What's so unrealistic about that? Hypothermia is a small-timer, in severe enough cold your body parts literally crumble off from the smallest impact, or freeze to an aesthetically pleasing ice cone, which would just simply kill you, not hibernate you, without proper measures taken(or being very lucky). And that doesn't even touch the stress your organs have to soak up due to the sudden change in temperature. It's safe to assume a cone of cold is cold enough to be lethal, hence the lethal damage. Hell, if we wanted realism cold should deal constitution damage in some cases.

Don't believe me? Buy a few liters of liquid nitrogen. Put your hand in it. The Leidenfrost effect(which only applies to cold liquids, not cold air) protects it from turning rock solid for the time being, so leave it in for a short while. A minute or two. You better not be too fond of that hand though. You're not getting it back. Once you're done, drink a mouthful. At best your mouth freezes shut before much could reach your throat. At worst you've just lost your stomach, and you can watch as the nitrogen boils away to 20-something liters of gas, tearing apart your insides.

That was a mouthful of extremely cold drink. What do you think a 60 feet long area of extremely cold air would do to those standing in it? Sure, it doesn't kill you instantly(that's not even possible), but I'm still going to stand over there, far, far away, if you don't mind.

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