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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
This is a really horribly evil way to initiate a fight against Pcs.
"Roll perception. Your dead."
No one's going to survive something colossal moving 7000 feet down in one round, especially when its technically a colossal hunk of iron, essentially. Not to mention the crater it'd make.
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
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Originally Posted by
Duboris
This is a really horribly evil way to initiate a fight against Pcs.
"Roll perception. Your dead."
No one's going to survive something colossal moving 7000 feet down in one round, especially when its technically a colossal hunk of iron, essentially. Not to mention the crater it'd make.
If the party wizard can't survive a supersonic dragon made of iron at epic levels it's his own fault really.
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
Good Point. Seems like featherfall would be good enough to fix its initiation?
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
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gooddragon1
It has a movement speed of 350. While running this becomes 1750. Straight down it's 3500. Taking an extra full round action means it moved 7000 feet in a round.
Sounds really awesome.
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
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Duboris
Good Point. Seems like featherfall would be good enough to fix its initiation?
Contingency Teleport. :D
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
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gooddragon1
Contingency Teleport. :D
You have to wonder how paranoid your PCs are when "If a white dragon tries to divebomb me at supersonic speeds" becomes a specification for activating a Crafted Contingent Spell. Then you have to go home and rethink your life. :smallfrown:
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
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Snowbluff
You have to wonder how paranoid your PCs are when "If a white dragon tries to divebomb me at supersonic speeds" becomes a specification for activating a Crafted Contingent Spell. Then you have to go home and rethink your life. :smallfrown:
Far more reasonable is "if anything threatens me."
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
I always liked that Dragon Magazine spell for dragons to fly in a straight line at 4 times normal speed. Think it had something to do with arrows.
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
I could have sworn there was a flaw or feat, or spell, or something that changes your mass. I would suggest taking that as well, so now he comes hurtling down like a lead dragon, rather than an iron one. Now that is an impact zone.
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
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Answerer
Far more reasonable is "if anything threatens me."
...And your wizard becomes the favorite toy of small children everywhere, as word spreads that yelling 'gonna throw mud pies at you, Wizard!' causes him to become fenced in by a glowing, impenetrable array of warding spells and/or teleported back to his dimensionally-locked private plane. :smallwink:
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
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Lapak
...And your wizard becomes the favorite toy of small children everywhere, as word spreads that yelling 'gonna throw mud pies at you, Wizard!' causes him to become fenced in by a glowing, impenetrable array of warding spells and/or teleported back to his dimensionally-locked private plane. :smallwink:
I did mean threaten in the game mechanics sense, but that may or may not be valid for contingency; the spell is hideously vague that way.
Thrown anything doesn't threaten (ranged attacks), mud pies wouldn't threaten (not a weapon), etc.
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
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Originally Posted by
Answerer
I did mean threaten in the game mechanics sense, but that may or may not be valid for contingency; the spell is hideously vague that way.
Thrown anything doesn't threaten (ranged attacks), mud pies wouldn't threaten (not a weapon), etc.
Well now we're talking about metaphysical gaming constructs. Your wizard doesn't know what those are~!
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
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Snowbluff
Well now we're talking about metaphysical gaming constructs. Your wizard doesn't know what those are~!
Debatable, particularly in the case of AoOs where characters are basing their decisions based around the mechanical realities.
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
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Originally Posted by
Duboris
This is a really horribly evil way to initiate a fight against Pcs.
"Roll perception. Your dead."
No one's going to survive something colossal moving 7000 feet down in one round, especially when its technically a colossal hunk of iron, essentially. Not to mention the crater it'd make.
Yeah if played intelligently most high level monster encounters should start and end that way.
>:D
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
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Snowbluff
Well now we're talking about metaphysical gaming constructs. Your wizard doesn't know what those are~!
It's sort of like how a genius in our world probably knows a fair deal of math and science. By sorting through natural phenomena, a wizard school could get a fairly good idea of how such meta constructs work.
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Mithril Leaf
It's sort of like how a genius in our world probably knows a fair deal of math and science. By sorting through natural phenomena, a wizard school could get a fairly good idea of how such meta constructs work.
A PC Wizard is going to be rocking a 30+ Int score, max ranks in several Knowledge skills, and the ability to text message Gods on a whim. He knows. My sig happens to be relevant here.
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
Similarly, I had a character that Shapechanged into a Very Young Polychromatic Dragon with a 720ft/round fly speed. With the Run feat and his speed boosts factored in, I worked out that he could take Run actions at about the speed of a jet liner.
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
Forgive me for being ignorant, but how would 15/adamantine protect the dragon from hitting the ground at over 4,4 billion newtons?
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
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gooddragon1
If the party wizard can't survive a supersonic dragon made of iron at epic levels it's his own fault really.
I totally want to sig this. May I please?
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
Didn't Chuck (the Ruby Knight Windicator) make it up to six times the speed of sound, or something?
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
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Mithril Leaf
It's sort of like how a genius in our world probably knows a fair deal of math and science. By sorting through natural phenomena, a wizard school could get a fairly good idea of how such meta constructs work.
I'm very uncomfortable with this idea. Just because the rules are based on six second rounds, ability scores, etc. doesn't mean that it's necessarily an aspect of the physical reality of the game world. Personally, I wouldn't let this fly at my table.
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
Are you considering that Iron Body halfs your speed? Or you are assuming that it only affects land speed?
Don't get me wrong, I saw this idea and tried to apply it to my druid and saw the spell and figured that my usual DM would apply that penalty to all kinds of movement speed.
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
What is the terminal velocity of an iron dragon?
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
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Teflonknight
What is the terminal velocity of an iron dragon?
Approximately magic meters/second.
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
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Kuulvheysoon
Didn't Chuck (the Ruby Knight Windicator) make it up to six times the speed of sound, or something?
He did, and was ridiculous. But wasn't he broken by some errata or other?
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
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Slipperychicken
He did, and was ridiculous. But wasn't he broken by some errata or other?
IIRC, they wrote an errata to explicitly prevent Chuck... and miswrote it so that it still works. Or something silly like that.
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
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Answerer
IIRC, they wrote an errata to explicitly prevent Chuck... and miswrote it so that it still works. Or something silly like that.
If you're referring to the original build, I'm pretty sure the Complete Arcane errata totally destroyed the Footsteps of the Divine trick by disallowing Persisting dischargeable spells. If not, I'd like to hear this new speed record guy.
I don't know how to determine the volume of a Colossal+ White Dragon, but if I could I'd probably be able to calculate his ferrous terminal velocity.
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I could easily be misremembering.
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Re: Speed of sound with a white dragon
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Teflonknight
What, is the terminal velocity of an iron dragon?
Wait, Faerun or Forgotten Realms? :smallwink: