Getting ready to run Avernus for my home group, and I ran into this description: "Soul coins are about 5 inches across and about an inch thick, minted from infernal iron. Each coin weighs one-third of a pound, and..." Wait, what? Based on my half-remembered, probably faulty, highly questionable calculations, that means a soul coin should weigh about 5.5 pounds, not 0.333. (And iron being a very brittle metal, making them hollow at that size and only a third of a pound would be a bit like an eggshell.)
Obviously this can only mean one of two things: A) infernal iron has a @#$% ton of helium atoms in it's chemical makeup somehow, or B) (and this is my favorite) the gravity in hell is nearly nonexistent. Like hell is nothing but surly, irritable devils floating around at odd angles and banging into each other like a bunch of untrained astronauts, and they're just mad they can't ever get oriented the right way round.
It would make for a fun campaign: Fighter (in non-infernal iron armor): "We need you to cast Magic Circle; get down here!" Wizard: "I CAN'T!" Fighter: "You're upside down, maybe try levitate." Wizard: "I tried that, I just went sideways." Fighter: "Feather Fall? Maybe it'll be like a negative times a negative equals a positive." Wizard: "Oh shut up!"
Getting ready to run Avernus for my home group, and I ran into this description:
"Soul coins are about 5 inches across and about an inch thick, minted from infernal iron. Each coin weighs one-third of a pound, and..."
Wait, what?
Based on my half-remembered, probably faulty, highly questionable calculations, that means a soul coin should weigh about 5.5 pounds, not 0.333. (And iron being a very brittle metal, making them hollow at that size and only a third of a pound would be a bit like an eggshell.)
Obviously this can only mean one of two things:
A) infernal iron has a @#$% ton of helium atoms in it's chemical makeup somehow, or
B) (and this is my favorite) the gravity in hell is nearly nonexistent. Like hell is nothing but surly, irritable devils floating around at odd angles and banging into each other like a bunch of untrained astronauts, and they're just mad they can't ever get oriented the right way round.
It would make for a fun campaign:
Fighter (in non-infernal iron armor): "We need you to cast Magic Circle; get down here!"
Wizard: "I CAN'T!"
Fighter: "You're upside down, maybe try levitate."
Wizard: "I tried that, I just went sideways."
Fighter: "Feather Fall? Maybe it'll be like a negative times a negative equals a positive."
Wizard: "Oh shut up!"
I didn't know iron was brittle. I think you are over thinking this. Magic can explain everything.
GOOD LUCK!
They are made that way so swallows can carry them
Funnily enough, i feel it's actually a mistake.
If you take the metric for the size, 5 centimeters across and 1 centimeter thick, you get ~150 grams of weight, which is really close to ~0.333 pounds
Souls are actually lighter than air BAM
It could grip it by the husk!
But infernal coins don't have a husk to they. I suppose if the right infernalness was inscribed on the coin and it had a beard, I could see that.
Souls are comprised mostly of Hydrogen, which makes them both combustible (as shown in BG:DIA) and makes the coin lighter.
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