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Reblogged from plonestrashbin  15 notes
Posted 30, May, 2016
  • James:

    What's the peasant railgun?

  • Max:

    o boi.

  • Okay so short version it was a meme on /tg/ as something really dumb you could supposedly do in DnD because of how some basic game mechanics worked. I'll disclaim that it doesn't actually work and any DM or player that argues otherwise is a punk.

  • Long version,

  • In most editions of DnD, handing an object to a willing adjacent target is a free action.

  • A Free Action is defined as something that takes essentially no time, to the point where it simply isn't counted towards what you can do in the six seconds a round allows you.

  • Given this, the theory was that you would line up a hundred or more hired commoners and arrange them in a line.

  • Give the back-most commoner a ballista bolt, or an iron bar.

  • Everyone in the line except the final commoner take the prepared action, Receive object, pass object along.

  • The final commoner's prepared action is simply 'Receive object, release object'.

  • Since free actions take no time, you effectively shuttle the steel rod (given 100 commoners) 500 feet in less than a second.

  • Final commoner receives and lets go, inertia is preserved, launching a five pound steel rod at a speed of about 350 mph.