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by tiltowait 352 days ago
TFA is actually the first time I've seen the peasant railgun interpretation that actually causes damage. Other conversations I've seen all concluded it wouldn't do any damage, which made it even funnier depending on your point of view.

Two of my favorite bits of D&D (3.5) logic:

* Mounting a horse is a free action. Therefore, much like the peasant railgun, you could set up saddle highways: a post every five feet, with a saddle on top. Then, you mount and dismount between cities as one gigantic free action, allowing instantaneous travel.

* Per the rules governing object visibility at distance, the moon was invisible.

* Arguably, once you started drowning, you could not stop drowning, even if removed from water.

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> Per the rules governing object visibility at distance, the moon was invisible.

The devs forgot to special case it in the LoD algorithm.

You're making an assumption about the distance to the moon.