I’m gonna sound like a real idiot, but idk enough about blood pressure to get the joke. Can someone explain it to me?
The hydra kept growing two new heads and necks every time the characters cut one off. Eventually it reached the point where its heart couldn't keep up with the added blood vessels and lost consciousness.
Wow! That literally never occurred to me. Kind of like the time I was playing Mage: the Ascension and I used Life magick to turn all the beer in the bloodstreams of these guys who were harassing my character and her friend into an equivalent amount of whiskey (cause beer and whiskey are both alcohol but whiskey is a lot stronger) and turned them from guys who were drunk and belligerent into guys who were passed out drunk.
If hydras can grow back two full necks and heads for each head that was chopped off every 6 seconds, I don't see any reason why their most likely magical powers of regeneration won't also generate more blood.
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If hydras can grow back two full necks and heads for each head that was chopped off every 6 seconds, I don't see any reason why their most likely magical powers of regeneration won't also generate more blood.
A heart can only push so hard on the weight of blood. If the heart magically grows to the point where it consumes the whole chest to compensate, then the question is what happens to the lungs.
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Good point. So, if you chopped off enough heads to be able to see the Hydra's heart beating, then had a elf with a bow.... Actually, ignore my elf stereo type, but an archer of some kind shoot it, since ranged weapons are piercing, then would it kill the Hydra?
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Good point. So, if you chopped off enough heads to be able to see the Hydra's heart beating, then had a elf with a bow.... Actually, ignore my elf stereo type, but an archer of some kind shoot it, since ranged weapons are piercing, then would it kill the Hydra?
No. Two hearts would appear.
That's how it works, right? Destroy a body part and it doubles? A 12-hearted, 51-headed, 36-legged, 3 tailed, 2-torsoed hydra with 5 eyes on 8 of its heads and 2 mouths on 1 and 2 tongues in one of those extra mouths on one head. It also has 87 kidneys, 92 lungs, 33 sets of intestines with appropriate exits each, and one liver.
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If hydras can grow back two full necks and heads for each head that was chopped off every 6 seconds, I don't see any reason why their most likely magical powers of regeneration won't also generate more blood.
Well, it was done for the sake of a rules joke anyway- the comic in question was Order of the Stick.
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If hydras can grow back two full necks and heads for each head that was chopped off every 6 seconds, I don't see any reason why their most likely magical powers of regeneration won't also generate more blood.
A heart can only push so hard on the weight of blood. If the heart magically grows to the point where it consumes the whole chest to compensate, then the question is what happens to the lungs.
. . . Or, magic doesn't care about physics and blood pressure?
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Wait, I thought that hydra parts would only grow to back two if it is CUT OFF from the body. So there for, you could shoot all of the Hydra's head with a crossbow, due to its piercing, no?
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Wait, I thought that hydra parts would only grow to back two if it is CUT OFF from the body. So there for, you could shoot all of the Hydra's head with a crossbow, due to its piercing, no?
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*Sighs* This stat block is flawed. Here's why. It is stated CLEARLY in Greek Myths that Hydra's heads ONLY grow back if they were CHOPPED OFF. This should have 25 SLASHING damage. Not just flat out damage.
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In short, if they take a total amount of damage on their turn more than 25 (of any damage type) they lose a head. It doesn't have to be slashing damage. As written in the stat block, even a monk punching it in the gut will cause one of its heads to fall off.
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*Sigh* This is why if I DM, I will modify the stat block so it only happens when 25 SLASHING damage happens. But only for accuracy. I am just a semi-fanatic fan of Percy Jackson.
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*Sigh* This is why if I DM, I will modify the stat block so it only happens when 25 SLASHING damage happens. But only for accuracy. I am just a semi-fanatic fan of Percy Jackson.
Even then, why does targeting the hydra automatically target a head? I know called shots aren't really a thing in this edition, but it seems a bit unrealistic to assume that every single attack and damaging effect that harms the hydra is going to lop off a head.
Upcasting thunderwave on a hydra to watch those heads fly off ;)
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Wow! That literally never occurred to me. Kind of like the time I was playing Mage: the Ascension and I used Life magick to turn all the beer in the bloodstreams of these guys who were harassing my character and her friend into an equivalent amount of whiskey (cause beer and whiskey are both alcohol but whiskey is a lot stronger) and turned them from guys who were drunk and belligerent into guys who were passed out drunk.
If hydras can grow back two full necks and heads for each head that was chopped off every 6 seconds, I don't see any reason why their most likely magical powers of regeneration won't also generate more blood.
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Clones would have saved Star Wars, and Kylo Ren sucks.
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A heart can only push so hard on the weight of blood. If the heart magically grows to the point where it consumes the whole chest to compensate, then the question is what happens to the lungs.
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“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
Good point. So, if you chopped off enough heads to be able to see the Hydra's heart beating, then had a elf with a bow.... Actually, ignore my elf stereo type, but an archer of some kind shoot it, since ranged weapons are piercing, then would it kill the Hydra?
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Clones would have saved Star Wars, and Kylo Ren sucks.
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No. Two hearts would appear.
That's how it works, right? Destroy a body part and it doubles? A 12-hearted, 51-headed, 36-legged, 3 tailed, 2-torsoed hydra with 5 eyes on 8 of its heads and 2 mouths on 1 and 2 tongues in one of those extra mouths on one head. It also has 87 kidneys, 92 lungs, 33 sets of intestines with appropriate exits each, and one liver.
EDIT: No. I'm not from Ancient Greece. Why would you ask that?
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
Well, it was done for the sake of a rules joke anyway- the comic in question was Order of the Stick.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
. . . Or, magic doesn't care about physics and blood pressure?
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Wait, I thought that hydra parts would only grow to back two if it is CUT OFF from the body. So there for, you could shoot all of the Hydra's head with a crossbow, due to its piercing, no?
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Clones would have saved Star Wars, and Kylo Ren sucks.
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Not according to the hydra stat block, no.
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I am looking at the stat block. Give me a second.
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*Sighs* This stat block is flawed. Here's why. It is stated CLEARLY in Greek Myths that Hydra's heads ONLY grow back if they were CHOPPED OFF. This should have 25 SLASHING damage. Not just flat out damage.
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Clones would have saved Star Wars, and Kylo Ren sucks.
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Don't even TRY to argue with me about Star Wars.
In short, if they take a total amount of damage on their turn more than 25 (of any damage type) they lose a head. It doesn't have to be slashing damage. As written in the stat block, even a monk punching it in the gut will cause one of its heads to fall off.
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*Sigh* This is why if I DM, I will modify the stat block so it only happens when 25 SLASHING damage happens. But only for accuracy. I am just a semi-fanatic fan of Percy Jackson.
I am part of the Cult of Grammar. Respect us. Or we will find the slightest mistake in your grammar, and never let you forget it.
Clones would have saved Star Wars, and Kylo Ren sucks.
MAKE THE EMPIRE GREAT AGAIN!!! I am a stormtrooper, and the Skywalker family is made of nothing but idiots who are insane. Cough Anakin and Luke Skywalker Cough
Don't even TRY to argue with me about Star Wars.
I gotta go. It's time for bed in my house.
I am part of the Cult of Grammar. Respect us. Or we will find the slightest mistake in your grammar, and never let you forget it.
Clones would have saved Star Wars, and Kylo Ren sucks.
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Don't even TRY to argue with me about Star Wars.
Even then, why does targeting the hydra automatically target a head? I know called shots aren't really a thing in this edition, but it seems a bit unrealistic to assume that every single attack and damaging effect that harms the hydra is going to lop off a head.
Upcasting thunderwave on a hydra to watch those heads fly off ;)
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Maybe it has a really weak neck as a survival trait?
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It realizes how vulnerable it is to body-shots and instinctively interposes its heads between attackers and its torso.
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