Pyrotechnics smoke cloud save


Rules Questions


In our game last night it came up that it's not entierly clear if you need to continue to save vs. the -4 Str/Dex penalty if you succeed on the Fort save but stay in the smoke cloud. The description says:

SRD wrote:
All within the cloud take -4 penalties to Strength and Dexterity (Fortitude negates). These effects last for 1d4+1 rounds after the cloud dissipates or after the creature leaves the area of the cloud.

Stinking Cloud, for comparison, says:

SRD wrote:
Any creature that succeeds on its save but remains in the cloud must continue to save each round on your turn.

Good arguments were made both ways, but in the end we temporarily ruled that since it doesn't say you have to continue making the save, you don't.

How are other people running this? I didn't see other threads addressing this topic.

Scarab Sages

AlamoMelt wrote:
[...] but in the end we temporarily ruled that since it doesn't say you have to continue making the save, you don't.

This.

The Exchange

Interesting. We have always ruled that you would need to make a save every round you stood in the cloud.

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