# Improvising Damage
*Source: Dungeon Master's Guide (2024) p. 30*
**Improvising Damage**
| Damage | Examples |
|--------|----------|
| `dice:1d10\|noform\|noparens\|avg\|text(1d10)` | Burned by coals, hit by a falling bookcase, pricked by a poison needle |
| `dice:2d10\|noform\|noparens\|avg` (`2d10`) | Struck by lightning, stumbling into a firepit |
| `dice:4d10\|noform\|noparens\|avg` (`4d10`) | Hit by falling rubble in a collapsing tunnel, tumbling into a vat of acid |
| `dice:10d10\|noform\|noparens\|avg` (`10d10`) | Crushed by compacting walls, hit by whirling steel blades, wading through lava |
| `dice:18d10\|noform\|noparens\|avg` (`18d10`) | Submerged in lava, hit by a crashing flying fortress |
| `dice:24d10\|noform\|noparens\|avg` (`24d10`) | Tumbling into a vortex of fire on the "Elemental Plane of Fire", crushed in the jaws of a godlike creature or a moon-size monster |
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