Acid-based Attacks

Acid-based attacks Acid-based attacks are threats that manifest as corrosive liquids or enzymatic secretions, which eat through surfaces, armour and flesh upon contact. This typically involves the corrosion being splashed, sprayed, exhaled or oozed onto victims, damaging whatever it touches. Acid may also exist as pools or coated surfaces. Though armour may absorb and initial contact, if a failed saving throw indicates that it's been eaten through, there's considered to be sufficient acid to eat through cloth and flesh afterwards. Magical items are likewise subject to these attacks, as they are still fundamentally made of susceptible materials.

Acid may be so strong that it's able to eat through floors, walls, doors or containers, creating further hazards beyond the original attack. When falling or thrown, acid can splash, so that small globules can cause damage to individuals or bore small holes in equipment. This is painful, so that combatants and others so struck are always assumed to jump back an involuntary distance of one combat hex, whether or not they have been stunned. Animals tend to react very excitedly to these attacks. Hit points lost due to acid can be healed normally.

In dungeon environments, it is likely to be found in traps or in the form of residue associated with those creatures that employ it or live in it. While a pool of acid may resemble water or oil in dim light, the substance reveals itself through its odour, especially to those creatures or persons with heightened senses.