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    This is a really horribly evil way to initiate a fight against Pcs.

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Duboris View Post
    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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    Good Point. Seems like featherfall would be good enough to fix its initiation?

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    Quote Originally Posted by gooddragon1 View Post

    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Duboris View Post
    Good Point. Seems like featherfall would be good enough to fix its initiation?
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    Quote Originally Posted by gooddragon1 View Post
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Snowbluff View Post
    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.
    Far more reasonable is "if anything threatens me."

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    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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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Answerer View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lapak View Post
    ...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.
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Answerer View Post
    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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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Duboris View Post
    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.
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Didn't Chuck (the Ruby Knight Windicator) make it up to six times the speed of sound, or something?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mithril Leaf View Post
    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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    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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    What is the terminal velocity of an iron dragon?
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    What is the terminal velocity of an iron dragon?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kuulvheysoon View Post
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Slipperychicken View Post
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Answerer View Post
    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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    What, is the terminal velocity of an iron dragon?
    Wait, Faerun or Forgotten Realms?
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