Re-reading the Archive and found this post, I didn’t know you were a prophet. Just a couple months ago there was a news article about a truckload of dice being in an accident and spilling its contents. IDK who joked about the road taking 15.000 dice of damage.
Why do you need significant digits? 1d3 significant digits should be enough but who cares for precision? The number of digits (or powers of ten in the decimal system/orders of magnitude) and maybe the value of the first leading digit are what’s important.
Hmmm…sort of looks like a pastel blue V-2. Now so long as it does not have an atomic warhead; not to bad; their targeting guidence systems were very poor. They might have a very nasty magical ‘explosive’ though! Maybe a ‘sphere of annilation’ warhead? ‘Duck and Cover’ anyone? This strip just keeps getting better! Keep up the good work! 🙂
All we need now is a choir to sing its praises, followed by James Gregory in an ape mask shooting up Victor Buono and James Franciscus before Charlton Heston comes in at the last second and sets it off…
Sorry, but that last panel, the first thing that came to mind was BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES and, well…
Interesting that everyone is guessing at massive damage.
Considering this was made of a bunch of low-grade minor magic items. I’d have bet more on a “Rod of Wonder” type thingy.
Sure, it might vaporise the town. It might also turn every 3rd person purple, and all cabbages into golden butterflies….
Or if magic works entirely on names, it might do 1d4 force damage….
Letting loose a payload of Recombinant Runics Nested Ad-hoc into an environment is never a good idea. (When I plant tiger-lillies, I want flowers, darn it! Not something that eats my cattle.) The idea of suddenly waking up in a Xanth-like world defined by multiple low-grade puns would definetly ruinic my day, if I didn’t already get eaten first thing in the morning by my Aloe/Goodbye plants in the course of stumbling around looking for that caffeine drip.
So, you think that if a flying blue cylinder thingy crashed somewhere, there would be absolutely nobody stupid enough to try and read/open/touch it?
The best weapons make your opponents kill themselves….
I came up with a bunch of REALLY abusive things that I could do with the Explosive Runes spell. For instance:
1.) Inscribe runes on arrows. Have the entire party fire volleys at enemies. Watch as the runes are disabled when the arrows break and they explode.
2.) Grab an empty spellbook. Inscribe 2 Empowered ER’s on each side of each page at maximum caster level. Have my familiar drop it on my foe, then area dispel it at minimum caster level. Watch as every single rune detonates, dealing unavoidable damage, assuming that it’s within reading distance.
3.) Transport a very LARGE tarpaulin into outer space, such that it’s weightless. Cast a massive Explosive Runes spell on it with the Explosive Spell metamagic feat applied. Then drape the tarp over the moon. The first person who reads it will cause the moon-rune to explode, and everyone within reading range of the rune will be dealt Explosive Spell damage, as they and the entire planet are flung far enough that they can no longer read the moon-sized rune (which will likely be several thousand miles). Each 10 feet they travel in this manor deals 1d6 damage.
Or if someone attempts to erase, dispel, or disable them and fails. Breaking something is an attempt to disable them, and if you don’t break them properly, they’ll explode.
you know, it would be hilarious if someone actually does mention that this thing does some 6d1000 or something like that, ends up getting launched, but then it ends up only doing the bare minimum of 6 damage. EPIC CRITICAL FAILURE.
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Eat your heart out, Saruman!
Gah! I’d have created a magic missal, what with the clerical background and all
Um, magical potato time? Mebbe a few extra lines of coding?
Gonna need more dice for that puppy.
a lot more dice
Truckload of d4s incoming!
Re-reading the Archive and found this post, I didn’t know you were a prophet. Just a couple months ago there was a news article about a truckload of dice being in an accident and spilling its contents. IDK who joked about the road taking 15.000 dice of damage.
Oh gawd, that was AWFUL! :p
Anyone have a few thousand d4s to roll for damage? 😛
You only need six d4000s. Tens and singles digits are kind of meaningless at those levels of damage. Just multiply a standard d4 total by 1000.
6d4000 forms a bell curve centered around 12,003. 1d4 multiplied by anything will not form a bell curve, ever.
Of course, at those values, you could just use a d6 with values of “Dead”, “Very Dead”, “Yep, Dead”, “Deader than Dead”, “Deadest”, and “Vaporized”.
Guess we can roll for significant digits rather than values. Who needs precision?
Why do you need significant digits? 1d3 significant digits should be enough but who cares for precision? The number of digits (or powers of ten in the decimal system/orders of magnitude) and maybe the value of the first leading digit are what’s important.
“He’s dead, Jim.”
Well, it’s either an esoteric representation of the Konami Cult
or I’ve been neglecting my Word document assignment
(I mean, Word/side scrollbar , goto previous, goto next, select/browse object)
I think you’re right on the second one – that’s gotta be the targeting system. Who’d have thought Bill Gates would be affiliated with the Tenticallis?
…Or maybe it’s B’ill Gatesesi, and he is attempting to destroy Steve Paulayevich Jobsky* and his Drow organisation.
All of a sudden I don’t feel comfortable at a keyboard anymore.
* Yes I know Russian last names don’t begin with “J”. Work with me here.
Hmmm…sort of looks like a pastel blue V-2. Now so long as it does not have an atomic warhead; not to bad; their targeting guidence systems were very poor. They might have a very nasty magical ‘explosive’ though! Maybe a ‘sphere of annilation’ warhead? ‘Duck and Cover’ anyone? This strip just keeps getting better! Keep up the good work! 🙂
All we need now is a choir to sing its praises, followed by James Gregory in an ape mask shooting up Victor Buono and James Franciscus before Charlton Heston comes in at the last second and sets it off…
Sorry, but that last panel, the first thing that came to mind was BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES and, well…
Interesting that everyone is guessing at massive damage.
Considering this was made of a bunch of low-grade minor magic items. I’d have bet more on a “Rod of Wonder” type thingy.
Sure, it might vaporise the town. It might also turn every 3rd person purple, and all cabbages into golden butterflies….
Or if magic works entirely on names, it might do 1d4 force damage….
Letting loose a payload of Recombinant Runics Nested Ad-hoc into an environment is never a good idea. (When I plant tiger-lillies, I want flowers, darn it! Not something that eats my cattle.) The idea of suddenly waking up in a Xanth-like world defined by multiple low-grade puns would definetly ruinic my day, if I didn’t already get eaten first thing in the morning by my Aloe/Goodbye plants in the course of stumbling around looking for that caffeine drip.
This is Rusty & company; multiple low grade puns are already a daily hazard…and that’s not even counting the high level enriched puns…
MY CABBAGES!!!
Well, maybe the warhead is a bunch of explosive runes folded.
Wouldn’t work. Explosive Runes only go off if someone reads them.
So, you think that if a flying blue cylinder thingy crashed somewhere, there would be absolutely nobody stupid enough to try and read/open/touch it?
The best weapons make your opponents kill themselves….
I came up with a bunch of REALLY abusive things that I could do with the Explosive Runes spell. For instance:
1.) Inscribe runes on arrows. Have the entire party fire volleys at enemies. Watch as the runes are disabled when the arrows break and they explode.
2.) Grab an empty spellbook. Inscribe 2 Empowered ER’s on each side of each page at maximum caster level. Have my familiar drop it on my foe, then area dispel it at minimum caster level. Watch as every single rune detonates, dealing unavoidable damage, assuming that it’s within reading distance.
3.) Transport a very LARGE tarpaulin into outer space, such that it’s weightless. Cast a massive Explosive Runes spell on it with the Explosive Spell metamagic feat applied. Then drape the tarp over the moon. The first person who reads it will cause the moon-rune to explode, and everyone within reading range of the rune will be dealt Explosive Spell damage, as they and the entire planet are flung far enough that they can no longer read the moon-sized rune (which will likely be several thousand miles). Each 10 feet they travel in this manor deals 1d6 damage.
It’s a VERY abusable spell.
*manner
Spoken like a true peasant railgunner.
Or if someone attempts to erase, dispel, or disable them and fails. Breaking something is an attempt to disable them, and if you don’t break them properly, they’ll explode.
why am I reminded of the old ‘Wandering Damage Table’ from Dragon Magazine…
“ok, Roll all dice within 50 feet for damage…”
considering I have a 10 gal fishtank full of dice…
Boom!
Quick, someone cast Darkness at it!
I’m pretty sure you got that backward…
Magic missile? That looks more like a locate city bomb to me….
you know, it would be hilarious if someone actually does mention that this thing does some 6d1000 or something like that, ends up getting launched, but then it ends up only doing the bare minimum of 6 damage. EPIC CRITICAL FAILURE.
With the colours and bands, it looks more like a magic marital aid.
I just cannot imagine how big the Badger is going to be!!!
I guess that’s what you get when you cast magic missile using a 9th-level spell slot.
It…it’s beautiful