Is temperature tolerance really that expensive?

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Natural DR is DR. It protects you from any effects that DR protects you from. There is no guarantee that long term heating is an effect that DR protects from -- at least certain types of long term heating are explicitly not in the category of things GURPS DR protects from.

Which is not to say, stops any attacks that are affected by damage resistance.

Long term heating causes Fatigue.

There is no one way to decapitate. It's merely a special effect of cutting damage to the neck that results in death.

So why not have melting be a special effect of heating damage that results in death?

DR protects you, then you aren't taking enough heat to melt.