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2012-11-16, 10:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
I don't know him at all, other than by his posts on this forum. But the thread title does ask "What Houserules do you use in your game." Incidentally, he posted a word-for-word identical response in a similar thread, indicating to me that he has them saved on his computer somewhere, or bookmarked somewhere. But he would be better equipped to answer that question himself, should he choose.
I was just going by this post in the previous edition of Simple Question, where he says he "never" disregards RAW. (Maybe he's drawing a distinction between "disregard" and "modify slightly" or something.)dis·re·gard
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Incidentally, that thread is closed, is there a new edition? My game has a slew of houserules and I'm tempted to boast of them.Last edited by mattie_p; 2012-11-16 at 11:06 AM.
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"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
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2012-11-16, 11:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Technically, Titanium Elementals were not a good choice for the situation. Although a titanium Elemental would be more effective, it wouldnt fly as far as an earth elemental for the same distance, having a lower innertia.
the summoning of the Osmium elemental later was alot better. the thing is a living unstoppable forceMy Homebrew: found here.
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2012-11-16, 03:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Really? I'm basing this on my physics class from 20 years ago; but wouldn't there be similar momentum and greater initial velocity for titanium given the same amount of force to do the launch? F=MA, so if M goes down, A goes up, increase in V, similar momentum.
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2012-11-16, 03:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Momentum is mass*velocity. So assuming an elemental of the same size (volume), an osmium elemental will have more momentum than a titanium elemental at the same velocity. It will, of course, also require more force to accelerate to the same velocity.
Edit: Can't believe I wrote "velocity" where I meant "momentum". That made no sense...Last edited by noparlpf; 2012-11-16 at 03:19 PM.
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2012-11-16, 05:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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The Lycantrhope texts actually indicates that Lycanthropes in animal form always have something off about them, usually the eyes,
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As earlier mentioned, it's not likely to make much difference; as long as the trebuchets are built for the proper speed, the distance launched would be about the same. (Gravity would be less, drag would be more, initial speed would be higher, same total force.)
the summoning of the Osmium elemental later was alot better. the thing is a living unstoppable forceProjects: Homebrew, Gentlemen's Agreement, DMPCs, Forbidden Knowledge safety, and Top Ten Worst. Also, Quotes and RACSD are good.
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2012-11-16, 05:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Titanium elementals, also featuring in the previous strip too.
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π = 4
Consider a 5' radius blast: this affects 4 squares which have a circumference of 40' — Actually it's worse than that.
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2012-11-16, 06:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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No, the Osmium elmental was summoned also as a siege unit, in strip 825. He is leaving foot prints in the rock
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2012-11-16, 07:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Redcloak did say that he was going to use the whole periodic table; I can't wait for the slam dancing plutonium elementals.
π = 4
Consider a 5' radius blast: this affects 4 squares which have a circumference of 40' — Actually it's worse than that.
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"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2012-11-17, 01:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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But the RAW doesn't say so. Remember what thread we're in. The point is not to say nobody can figure it out, just to say that the rules are structured thus that they do not provide for the possibility.
I don't think OOTS will run for long enough for RC to get through even the original 90-some elementals, let alone the "detectible for three seconds under an electron microscope" ones we've discovered since the 1960s (when all of my textbooks were written). Not to mention how flipping' useless a Nitrogen or Gallium elemental would be. (Now a Lead Elemental on the other hand has got to come in handy, given how many D&D spells don't work on/through lead. Plus it's poisonous and can inflict permanent INT drain.)
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I was just using Pu-244 as it's the only naturally-occuring variety still found in nature. The Neptunium example was one of the common elemental isotopes that Plutonium breaks down into (usually Neptunium and Uranium).
Of course, saying "Such-and-such element has a half-life of X" doesn't work very well, as most elements have a fair number of isotopes, each with it's own half-life. Sure, some of the Plutonium isotopes have a HL measured in seconds, but others last millions of years. So… what isotope are the elementals made of? Is it all one type, or is it an even mix? Do decayed bits of the elemental remain part of the elemental, so that it becomes a 78%-Plutonium-and-22%-Uranium Elemental?
… I just realized that we've gone off on a rather wild tangent. We should probably get back to the matter at hand.
EDIT: OK, something that's actually on topic. The Sha'ir class, in Dragon Compendium, does not state what sort of action it is to start the retrieval of a spell. It states that the Sha'ir sends his Gen (a small Djinn) to the elemental plane to retrieve the spell, and that it returns a certain number of rounds/minutes/hours later (depending on the type of spell), and that a Diplo check must be made to see if the Gen is successful in retrieving the spell. However, it never says what sort of action it is to send the Gen off in the first place. Does the Sha'ir just use a free action to tell the Gen "Go do this", or is it a move or standard (or longer) to give detailed instructions/make a Diplo check through the Gen?
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@ Barstro: It might.
The catapult has a maximum velocity it can propel things at. If you set the catapult off with nothing in the thrower, it goes off at its maximum velocity. Now, catapults are designed to throw some pretty heavy objects, say 150kg (actually that's trebuchet shot weight - catapult is a fairly generic term). When performing such a throw, it would achieve nearly maximum velocity (let's call it 98%MaxVel*150kg).
But say you take an object of the same size and double the density, the result would be, maybe, 78%MaxVel*300kg. This is quite a drop in velocity, but also a considerable increase in momentum (147 fictive units to 234).
On the other hand, if the drop in velocity was greater, say to 37%, the momentum would be less (111 fictive units). It would all depend on the catapult and how it performs.
Momentum is not the same as distance, though. If the catapult launched a feather at effectively 100%MaxVel, it would still travel shorter than any of the other examples, because the feather would have so little momentum it'd decelerate to 0 air speed after maybe a metre of movement.
On the flip side, the 150kg shot would in all likelihood travel further than the 300 kg one. But the 300 kg one would have greater momentum, and thus deliver more energy on impact.
So it depends on how big a payload the catapult can take. Cannons are better at taking advantage of heavier shot than catapults (and human arms), since they use gunpowder as a power source.
Edit: To answer your post more directly: The reason for your being unable to throw the lead as far as the baseball is because you're unable to achieve the same velocity with the heavy object as with the light. If you could, the lead would go farther than the baseball.Last edited by hymer; 2012-11-17 at 10:10 AM.
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π = 4
Consider a 5' radius blast: this affects 4 squares which have a circumference of 40' — Actually it's worse than that.
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2012-11-17, 11:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Much as I like the monster concept, the protean's riddled with what look like errors and poor planning.
It has Regeneration 30, but it doesn't have any listed weakness to it, better bring a whole lot of trollsbane or a ton of SoD's (it has to get a Nat 1 eventually).
It has "Immunities" listed in its stablock, but nowhere does it say what immunities it has (probably referring to the ones it has from its type and subtype, but should probably spelled out more explicitly).
It's Alter form ability is EX, and allows it to pick 4 EX abilities. I see nothing RAW to stop it from picking "Alter Form(Alter Form(Alter Form..." plus three other abilities with each iteration so it constantly has every single EX ability all at once (which remember, includes monstrosities like at will teleporting, disintegrating touch, and able to suck things into it, true sight and magic immunity on steroids,immunity to force effects, or a constant, crippling area debuff.)Avatar by TinyMushroom.
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Of course, by the time I finish this post, it will already be obsolete. C'est la vie.
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Of course, by the time I finish this post, it will already be obsolete. C'est la vie.
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