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If I fall from 10,000 feet and fail to die from damage (produce an agreed upon absurd result) That isn't actually an absurd result. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Chisov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Alkemade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Magee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulo...

Who cares if it's a 1/day object? It's unlimited over a large enough timeframe. Meaningless. So is an 8th level pearl of power, and for the purposes of this discussion (civil engineering through magic), it's almost exactly as useful. But since giving a player an 8th level pearl of power doesn't sig...

The bard should be an evoker. Musical instruments are a dumb focus for invisibility and silent image , but using a guitar to make a lightning bolt and a wall of flame , or a trumpet to shout is fucking awesome. No, not a guitar, an Axe , wielded by a stereotypical dwarf with gratutious umlats. And ...

I'm pretty sure it wouldn't. The processes within it that generate light and heat are halted, and you can't even transfer heat without time.

longer muscles are stronger muscles All good, but just to nitpick for science, basic strength is by cross section. Cube square laws and all that. The square-cube law should screw giants without lube. Giants would realistically have to face all the health problems that giant people face in real life...

The only way to defeat this is to postulate an absolute reference frame. But even then you should be able to fake time travel to a degree. This can be avoided (for all practical purposes, anyways) if you use wormholes or wormhole-like objects with the following properties: A. Neither end of the wor...

The solution to MM-itis is simple. Don't have monster manuals. Stupid monsters get included in Monster Manuals for one reason: pagecount. Making a unique iconic monster is difficult, but doable. Making enough unique iconic monsters to fill up an entire book is substantially more difficult. When you ...

Imma gonna look at some ways that FTL might be setup within a game or other work of fiction , with some brief overviews of what else happens for each starting assumption: So if you postulate I. Relativity missed something, FTL Travel is totally possible [...] II. You can cheat relativity and get th...

Black body emissions are falling is based on how light and electrons mass and gravity interact on a quantum level. There aren't exceptions to how it works. Oh hey, an exception: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1vyB-O5i6E That isn't an exception. That's just a frog being held up by really powerful m...

By the way, in case you don't realize it, space is filled with massive black bodies all around you. They are called stars and they are massively hotter than you are (at least I hope so). The problem with that is that space is huge . Stars are very far away and most of space effectively empty. It's ...

I've actually considered that you *don't* want relativistic particles because they may in fact just punch through the hull and make a molecule sized perfect hole in the hull, the way a tornado can put a stick through a brick wall. You want that kinetic energy to dissipate into the target, not carry...

I've actually considered that you *don't* want relativistic particles because they may in fact just punch through the hull and make a molecule sized perfect hole in the hull, the way a tornado can put a stick through a brick wall. You want that kinetic energy to dissipate into the target, not carry...

Instead of recharge you could go with a precharge. Power X takes Y turns of prep that can't be done before hand. In other words, when the wizard encounters flamable people he spends a turn prepping his flame blast (chanting, waving his arms around, whatever) and then sets them on fire. He can repeat...

So we had worked warheads into being like clouds of mines you could just let waft over to other ships and detonate when they were in range. The problem with mines is the simple fact that space is huge . You'd need trillions upon trillions of mines to intercept an enemy ship, if you knew its exact c...

It's not too much to ask the players to figure out a way that they know each other if it doesn't matter to the game ultimately. I mean, if the players can't do that, I'm expecting them at that point to need help wiping their ass, because they clearly aren't particularly capable. Players can't alway...

Just curious about your gaming background a bit... if mentioning only D&D, which edition did you start and was it DM created or published adventures? Those 2 factors can often color the rest of your gaming as is human nature to compare to first experiences. Started with plain old magical tea pa...

This is a failure of players to use the explorative nature and "adventure" into the world and their surroundings. The matter could have been done...MILLIONS of other ways to extrapolate thate information thorough play, rather than a handout or saying "you are in Waterdeep". What...

Also "being part of the same team" at the start of a game doesnt work for beginning a new game with new characters. This hurdle MUST be overcome each time, and the players must figure out how to make it work Bullshit. It isn't remotely difficult. You just tell your players that their char...

You just completely left player-driven there. When the players asked "now what" that was there cue to decide what to do, to make the choice of what the direction of the adventure would be. Most groups wont be able to get out of the tavern AS a group or find somehow to join each other. The...

DM: So you are all in a tavern.... Players: Ok now what? DM: :roll: DM: You see a man at the back. As a matter of fact, his eyes are red as the sun and the girl in the corner let no one ignore her 'cause she thinks she's the passionate one. The ability to pull stuff out of your ass is important for...

DM: So you are all in a tavern.... Players: Ok now what? DM: :roll: DM: You see a man at the back. As a matter of fact, his eyes are red as the sun and the girl in the corner let no one ignore her 'cause she thinks she's the passionate one. The ability to pull stuff out of your ass is important for...

The original post was concerning D&D. Which is 90% combat. So let's not move the goal posts here without explicitly stating so in advance . It's perfectly plausible to play a D&D game that doesn't have any combat. And in your above example, sure BMX Bandit could do some tricks and entertain...

No it's not fine. It's ass. If that nuke is applicable to the majority of the game's combat, then there's no point in being anything other than the character that can nuke. You're assuming that combat is all that matters. Thorg the Annihilator might be able to slaughter orc hoards with a wave us is...

It's not necessary that every character have the ability to throw around nukes. It's also not necessary that no character have the ability to throw around nukes. It is necessary that every character have something interesting to do. The problem with the overpowered D&D classes isn't that they ca...

Or, to take a different tact, drop the idea of classes and give people 'attributes', 'backgrounds', 'powers', and 'levels'. [*]Attributes are a way to describe a character in a word or two. Like 'strong' or 'fast' or 'stoic' or 'scary' or 'friendly' or 'sharp-eyed'. [*]Backgrounds are basically, in...