Wall of Fire question?

[Jai-Senn]

Hey gang. Had an encounter tonight where the DM dropped "Wall Of Fire" right between us, splitting the party and leaving 2 members standing alone against a bunch of Hill Giants.

Nobody in the party had anything that does cold damage (which is apparently what will stop a section of the wall of fire) so I said I was going to use an orison, "Create Water" and drop it on a section of the wall. Well, the DM was lenient, because it was a pretty good spot solution and allowed it to dampen the fire in that section for one round.

Here is my question; technically speaking, would/should that have really been allowed to work?

The group was just curious. Thanks! :)

[Gilarius]

No, it wouldn't really work, but it's cool ;)

On the other hand, the wall doesn't do much damage so you could have simply run through it. Standing next to it for several rounds is where it does significant damage.

[boring7]

What Gilarius said.

It takes 20 points of cold damage to suppress the effect, comparatively, 30 cold damage is enough to break a regular wooden door*.

That being said, it was better than staring on helplessly and doing nothing and the DM ruled it worked. What works better (in my head) is soaking yourself and dashing through, since that's how fictional characters always do it when they're rescuing someone from a burning building or whatever. But that's entirely personal and subjective.

*Over-simplifying object damage rules for the sake of example.

[Jai-Senn]

Okay, I'll pass that along to the DM.

Thanks for the suggestions/advice! :)