Have you got 3 billion spare peasants? Take one sword of kas and pass down the line. 180 BILLION miles per second.
The funny thing about this is that ... it's stop motion. Yes, it will travel 180 billion miles in a second. But, it will do so in stop motion. It will travel instantly from one peasant to the next, but then stop. Then travel instantly to the next. It will arrive in the hands of the final peasant with zero momentum. He can then throw it as an improvised weapon - unless he just so happens to be proficient in .. whatever type of sword Kas' is.
Have you got 3 billion spare peasants? Take one sword of kas and pass down the line. 180 BILLION miles per second.
The funny thing about this is that ... it's stop motion. Yes, it will travel 180 billion miles in a second. But, it will do so in stop motion. It will travel instantly from one peasant to the next, but then stop. Then travel instantly to the next. It will arrive in the hands of the final peasant with zero momentum. He can then throw it as an improvised weapon - unless he just so happens to be proficient in .. whatever type of sword Kas' is.
Rule wise, 'technically' it will work
Yes. Rule wise, technically, the Sword of Kas will travel a billion miles, and arrive in the hands of the last one with zero momentum.
You are not referring to the rules in any way what so ever. You're saying that a billions of peasants in a row could use free actions to hand off a sword to the guy next to them, and technically they could all do it on the same round. That has zero impact on the actual momentum of the sword. It's not a railgun, because the sword stops for each peasant. It arrives at the end of the line, moving at a sedate hand-off-something speed. It simply travels instantly, billions of times, a very short distance.
Basically, it teleports a tiny distance, billions of time, without ever building momentum.
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Have you got 3 billion spare peasants? Take one sword of kas and pass down the line. 180 BILLION miles per second.
The funny thing about this is that ... it's stop motion. Yes, it will travel 180 billion miles in a second. But, it will do so in stop motion. It will travel instantly from one peasant to the next, but then stop. Then travel instantly to the next. It will arrive in the hands of the final peasant with zero momentum. He can then throw it as an improvised weapon - unless he just so happens to be proficient in .. whatever type of sword Kas' is.
Rule wise, 'technically' it will work
Yes. Rule wise, technically, the Sword of Kas will travel a billion miles, and arrive in the hands of the last one with zero momentum.
You are not referring to the rules in any way what so ever. You're saying that a billions of peasants in a row could use free actions to hand off a sword to the guy next to them, and technically they could all do it on the same round. That has zero impact on the actual momentum of the sword. It's not a railgun, because the sword stops for each peasant. It arrives at the end of the line, moving at a sedate hand-off-something speed. It simply travels instantly, billions of times, a very short distance.
Basically, it teleports a tiny distance, billions of time, without ever building momentum.
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reading up on the sword of kas, couldn't the trap simply be handing the sword to the adventurer? if the character expresses any opinion other than "hurray" or "this is totally normal," then you might argue they're confused during the next minute of unsheathed sword ownership. and if they're not immediately bathing the sword in blood, then the confusion put them at disadvantage for the charisma saving throw. suddenly they're dominated and turning upon their fellow adventurers.
...obviously right after handing over the sword the "peasant railgun" should dismantle itself by everyone lifting the last guy in line and crowd-surfing (-serfing?) them back they way they came. this could have the added benefit of increasing the sword-holder's confusion. without this step the sword might have too many easy targets near and accidentally not chose to attack the adventuring party.
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One trap I cooked up a ways back might work well here.
The doors in a small room all close behind the party when they enter, and holes from the ceiling cause mosquitoes to pour from above. Of course, they all start feeding, and if the party doesn't act fast, they could end up drained of blood and HP. Given how mosquito swarms can take down moose IRL, this doesn't seem like that big of a jump in logic to me.
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Further to the peasant railgun: If any one of those billions of peasants could actually move that fast - you would need only one. No reason for the arbitrary argument that 'well, the sword has travelled X distance in a round, so now it's travelling at the speed of light'. That's utter bunk, it's an insult to intelligent humanity. *pathetic throwing sound* *clatter as the Sword of Kas rattles to the ground* *mewling cry as the poor peasant's brain explodes a minute later*
One peasant - if we accept the argument at all - can accelerate any object to the speed of light. Sadly, then it stops immediately, and he can only throw it as an improvised weapon, per the standard rules for such things.
Enough about that.
I'd like ... weird combo's. Like, one trap makes you blind. The next drops a Medusa on you. The next makes you deaf. The next again drops a Spectre on you. Then, at the end, a lever that will restore sight and hearing. What's the most convincing illusions in this edition? I haven't worked with that at all.
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Rule wise, 'technically' it will work
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Yes. Rule wise, technically, the Sword of Kas will travel a billion miles, and arrive in the hands of the last one with zero momentum.
You are not referring to the rules in any way what so ever. You're saying that a billions of peasants in a row could use free actions to hand off a sword to the guy next to them, and technically they could all do it on the same round. That has zero impact on the actual momentum of the sword. It's not a railgun, because the sword stops for each peasant. It arrives at the end of the line, moving at a sedate hand-off-something speed. It simply travels instantly, billions of times, a very short distance.
Basically, it teleports a tiny distance, billions of time, without ever building momentum.
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
Shhh don't tell the powergamers, you'll scare them
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reading up on the sword of kas, couldn't the trap simply be handing the sword to the adventurer? if the character expresses any opinion other than "hurray" or "this is totally normal," then you might argue they're confused during the next minute of unsheathed sword ownership. and if they're not immediately bathing the sword in blood, then the confusion put them at disadvantage for the charisma saving throw. suddenly they're dominated and turning upon their fellow adventurers.
...obviously right after handing over the sword the "peasant railgun" should dismantle itself by everyone lifting the last guy in line and crowd-surfing (-serfing?) them back they way they came. this could have the added benefit of increasing the sword-holder's confusion. without this step the sword might have too many easy targets near and accidentally not chose to attack the adventuring party.
unhappy at the way in which we lost individual purchases for one-off subclasses, magic items, and monsters?
tell them you don't like features disappeared quietly in the night: provide feedback!
One trap I cooked up a ways back might work well here.
The doors in a small room all close behind the party when they enter, and holes from the ceiling cause mosquitoes to pour from above. Of course, they all start feeding, and if the party doesn't act fast, they could end up drained of blood and HP. Given how mosquito swarms can take down moose IRL, this doesn't seem like that big of a jump in logic to me.
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HERE.Further to the peasant railgun: If any one of those billions of peasants could actually move that fast - you would need only one. No reason for the arbitrary argument that 'well, the sword has travelled X distance in a round, so now it's travelling at the speed of light'. That's utter bunk, it's an insult to intelligent humanity. *pathetic throwing sound* *clatter as the Sword of Kas rattles to the ground* *mewling cry as the poor peasant's brain explodes a minute later*
One peasant - if we accept the argument at all - can accelerate any object to the speed of light. Sadly, then it stops immediately, and he can only throw it as an improvised weapon, per the standard rules for such things.
Enough about that.
I'd like ... weird combo's. Like, one trap makes you blind. The next drops a Medusa on you. The next makes you deaf. The next again drops a Spectre on you. Then, at the end, a lever that will restore sight and hearing. What's the most convincing illusions in this edition? I haven't worked with that at all.
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.