# Improvising Damage *Source: Dungeon Master's Guide (2024) p. 30* **Improvising Damage** | Damage | Examples | |--------|----------| | `d10` | Burned by coals, hit by a falling bookcase, pricked by a poison needle | | `2d10` | Struck by lightning, stumbling into a firepit | | `4d10` | Hit by falling rubble in a collapsing tunnel, tumbling into a vat of acid | | `10d10` | Crushed by compacting walls, hit by whirling steel blades, wading through lava | | `18d10` | Submerged in lava, hit by a crashing flying fortress | | `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 | ^improvising-damage