Questions that can't be answered... Answered by RAW

[Snowbluff]

A20: Forty two.

[Eldan]

A 15:Art Objects

Q 19: What are feelings?

A 19: As per the doom spell*, feelings are something that causes the shaken condition.

To expand a bit: emotions are, by calm emotions, what causes barbarians to rage and enables people to be aggressive. Some Morale boni and a bard's inspire ability, as well as fear and confusion also counts. Empathy, a psionic power, lists Thirst, hunger, fear, fatigue, pain, rage, hatred, uncertainty, curiosity, friendliness and "others".

*The only place in the SRD to use "feeling" to mean emotion, as opposed to the senses, esp. touch

[Inevitability]

A20: Forty two.

This. So much.


Q21 Can a computer become sentinent?

Q22 Is all this an artificial world created by robots who took over the real world?

[Jagernaut]

Well played Snowbluff. Well played.

[Segev]

Q 4 Does size really matter?

A4 (alternate): Also not a lady, but I feel the need to point out that size modifiers are a significant part of successful grappling.

[Fax Celestis]

A21 Animate objects coupled with awaken construct would be able to provide sentience to a computer, in addition to many other pieces of technology.

[Dalebert]

A 17 As animals, groundhogs (aka woodchucks) are incapable of manipulating objects like a humanoid in order to do a throw maneuver. The best way to answer this is by casting Anthropomorphic Animal on the woodchuck which would allow one set of limbs to manipulate objects and weapons as well as hands. The question remaining is how big of a piece of wood is an anthropomorphic groundhog strong enough to lift AND throw. The distance being irrelevant to a question of volume/mass, we can focus on improvised weapons to allow the groundhog to pick up the largest chunk it's STR rating will allow and would allow it to throw.

A groundhog can get as large as about 30 lbs. This reasonably puts it's STR at about 3 with a maximum carrying capacity of 30 lbs, or it's own weight. This is also the listed strength of a common cat, despite an average cat only weighing about 5 lbs and being considered moderately overweight at 10 lbs. A creature can actually lift twice it's carrying capacity but we will assume that to throw something, you need to be able to lift it over your head which is limited to your max carrying capacity. Throwing a two-handed weapon is a full-round action. We could consider simple thrown one-handed weapons made of wood in order for it to be a standard action, but this almost certainly would result in a much smaller amount of wood being chucked over the same time period based on the significant weight difference.

It would need to spend an action to pick it up and a full round to throw as a two-handed weapon. Therefore, if a woodchuck could chuck wood, it could chuck about 30 lbs every other round to a distance of 50 ft (the max range of all improvised weapons).

A trivia bonus: The etymology of the name woodchuck is unrelated to wood or chucking. It stems from an Algonquian (possibly Narragansett) name for the animal, wuchak.

[Brookshw]

A22: No, true seeing and divinations would have established this. Further robots have a much better place well suited to them, Mechanus.

Q23: What is in the eye of the beholder.

[Fax Celestis]

A23 Depends on which eye. If you're referring to the beholder's primary eye, it has a cone-shaped antimagic field emanation. Its smaller, subordinate eyes also have their own effects.

[Inevitability]

A23 Endless opportunity to poke it out, become a Beholder Mage, and break the game.

[aethel27]

Q 24

Who created (the) god(s)?

[Dalebert]

Q 25 What's love got to do with it? (please excuse the grammar)

Spoiler: Question expounded upon / longer form

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What's love got to do with it?

[sideswipe]

Q 24

Who created (the) god(s)?

A 24

E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson
also
Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, Richard Baker, and Peter Adkison

source - deities and demigods.

[Brookshw]

A24: depends on where in d&d mythology you land. An overgod is a good starting point. Other answers include Gary Gygax, David Anderson, and various editors. Further for gods that rose to divinity but started as mortals could be summed up as their parents or the particulars of their ascention. The exception is Garl Glittergold who does not actually exist but is rather an illusion perpetuated by the gnomes (bloody gnomes).

A25: its an targetting element of sorts for identifying who's drawing the short stick in regards to the spell Love's Pain.

Q26: what is the sound of one hand clapping?

[Yanisa]

A18 & A26
The sound of a monk using quivering palm.

Q27
How young can you die of old age?

Q28
What is the speed of darkness?

Q29
Do three headed fire dragons have heated arguments with themselves?

Okay enough bad puns......

[Red Fel]

A 28
Darkness
Evocation [Darkness]
Casting time: 1 standard action

[Yanisa]

I expected the answer, just didn't want to answer my own question to point out:

Q13:
What is the speed of light?

A13:
Depends on whether it's quickened or not. If quickened it is a swift action to cast a light spell. If not quickened it is a standard action. In some cases light may be slower. Light and some other things are treated as occurring instantaneously. I can say this because of multispell. As you can cast multiple light spells in a round to a limit of as many light spells as you have the multispell feat and spell slots then the speed of light is infinite with infinite multispells and spell slots.

A28
What is the speed of darkness?

A 28
Darkness
Evocation [Darkness]
Casting time: 1 standard action

Terry Pratchett be damned, darkness is as fast as light.

Q30
So if a Darkness Wizard and a Light Wizard cast the spell at the same time at each-other, who would be faster (and thus win)?

[Red Bear]

Q27: 72 for Humans (page 109 PH)

[Red Fel]

A30
Whichever had Improved Initiative.

[avr]

Q 16

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

A 16
Speak with Plants suggests that ordinary plants have enough sense of their immediate surroundings to answer questions about them, so there is always someone present to hear it.

[Yanisa]

A30
Whichever had Improved Initiative.

Derp. >_<
And here I was hoping to ask a question in the vain of "what happens if a unstoppable force hits a immovable object".

[Brookshw]

A30: That's called counterspelling and darkness wins.

[Red Fel]

Derp. >_<
And here I was hoping to ask a question in the vain of "what happens if a unstoppable force hits a immovable object".

Clearly, an opposed skill check. Bull rush, if I'm not mistaken.

[Lanson]

I expected the answer, just didn't want to answer my own question to point out:





Terry Pratchett be damned, darkness is as fast as light.

Q30
So if a Darkness Wizard and a Light Wizard cast the spell at the same time at each-other, who would be faster (and thus win)?

A30: irrelevant, light and darkness can be used to counterspell each other, the duel would look like two crazy old men shouting and waving their hands at one another

Edit: wow thread moving fast today

[avr]

A29 Q29?
Do three headed fire dragons have heated arguments with themselves?

A 29
Red Dragons are 'Always Chaotic Evil'. Chaotic Evil is described as 'hot tempered, vicious, arbitrarily violent and unpredictable.' Therefore the answer is yes.

[aethel27]

A 29
Red Dragons are 'Always Chaotic Evil'. Chaotic Evil is described as 'hot tempered, vicious, arbitrarily violent and unpredictable.' Therefore the answer is yes.

Not necessarily a 3 headed Solar Dragon is Lawful Neutral and is there fore to be much less likely to engage in that behavior.

[Segev]

Not necessarily a 3 headed Solar Dragon is Lawful Neutral and is there fore to be much less likely to engage in that behavior.

What in the multiverse gives you the idea that Lawful alignment prohibits arguing? It actually encourages it, as debate over the laws and what they are, mean, and should be is very common. Moreso than with chaotic alignments, who would be far more likely to resort to force, deceit, or simple "to heck with it, I'm doing it my way" in order to get their way. Less arguing that way; more (likely) fighting.

[Inevitability]

Let's look at it in another way: If you were glued to two other people, each with their own thoughts and opinions, would you argue with them? Chances are the answer is: 'yes'.

You know, I just got an idea for a human who grafted clones of his own head onto himself (multiheaded template), with the heads constantly claiming that they, and not their colleague-heads, are the original one.

[Extra Anchovies]

Let's look at it in another way: If you were glued to two other people, each with their own thoughts and opinions, would you argue with them? Chances are the answer is: 'yes'.

You know, I just got an idea for a human who grafted clones of his own head onto himself (multiheaded template), with the heads constantly claiming that they, and not their colleague-heads, are the original one.

Reminds me of the Calvin & Hobbes story arc with the Duplicator...

Spoiler: pretty pretty picture

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[Dalebert]

A 30 Improved Initiative is irrelevant since the question specified "at the same time". They have the same initiative roll. Also, they're not counter-spelling since the question said "cast at each other". Since the light spell has no particular effect other than allowing the other wizard to see better and the darkness spell impedes the other wizard, and assuming both failed to resist the effects (creatures get a save), then one has a light spell on his body and the other has a Darkness spell. We'll also assume both made their touch-attack rolls as these are touch range. Since the light spell is not a higher level than the Darkness, it fails to suppress it. The light-inflicted wizard can move away and see better. The darkness-inflicted one cannot. I'd say the Darkness caster wins in an even fight.

Sidenote: A light spell of equal level to a darkness fails to brighten it. I think we can therefore conclude that Darkness is greater than Light in general .