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Sunwitch
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Koumei wrote:or the tale where a wall of Immovable Rods were used to destroy a castle.
Or the planet. Or the universe.
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Mauver wrote:
Koumei wrote:or the tale where a wall of Immovable Rods were used to destroy a castle.
Or the planet. Or the universe.
I've heard of one game that got derailed by someone taking out an Ancient Old Immortal-red-dragon (who was intended to be a recurring characters) by using the fly spell, flying around the dragon, and then setting an Immovable Rod behind him, and the dragon flew full-blast into it, point-first.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.

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Maxus wrote:
Mauver wrote:
Koumei wrote:or the tale where a wall of Immovable Rods were used to destroy a castle.
Or the planet. Or the universe.
I've heard of one game that got derailed by someone taking out an Ancient Old Immortal-red-dragon (who was intended to be a recurring characters) by using the fly spell, flying around the dragon, and then setting an Immovable Rod behind him, and the dragon flew full-blast into it, point-first.
Obviously they forgot (or overlooked) the part where an immovable rod can be moved with a dc 25 str check.
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Destroying the castle/universe thing involves a higher level of stupidity:

Fuck it, I'll pull the link up and you can laugh heartily.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/1709686/
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Post by RandomCasualty2 »

The immovable rod thing is why whenever someone brings up science at a D&D game, I instantly stop listening to them.
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Post by Dakira »

There's a difference between Bullshit and Creativity. I like to see creativity and if I let something slide, I'm not going to punish the players for it. As the DM I have the power to stop bullshit and say:

"Wait what? You're doing that? [Discuss] Nope, sorry. You can't do this, but you can do that instead, just not this."
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