I have Evasion, so uhhh... Yup, zero damage.
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The description says it hits the ground, so all you have to do is jump at the exact right time.
Using the asteroid impact calculator at https://apps.science.purdue.edu/eaps/crater/cgi/crater_c.cgi, a crater of this size is equal to approximately 7 kilotonnes, which is light tactical nuclear weapon level. Large enough to vaporise city blocks, refrigerators, and any rogues evading into said refrigerators
oh but it doesn't work if you're inside apparently
You have to see the sky comet to manipulate the comet, isn't that right? You can't just have wizards willy-nilly affecting matter that they can't perceive!
Makes sense. Who's gonna guide the comet down, imaginary sky friends?
You can't dodge all the damage with most builds, but the damage is actually spread out over a short duration and you can use the i-frames in dodge to negate some of it.
It clearly states you still take damage if you pass, an almost certainly fatal amount. Basically your character hides in a fridge or something like Indiana Jones.
Improved Evasion. You take no damage if successful, and 50% on a failed DEX check. Utterly broken, especially when the Wizard realizes that their pseudodragon familiar is why they can suddenly dodge better than the rogue, though I think the pseudodragon was actually casting dimension door or something.
hey, if you're not bothered by 15d10 dmg, i am impressed
15d10 damage on a successful save is still an average of 82.5 damage, or enough to kill a peasant 20.5 times over. I presume the Dex save is being able to find a relatively safe crevasse or something—the key word being "relative", since they'll still take enough damage to kill a rhino twice.
Using commoners to see how damaging a spell is is like using a cat to test out an anti-vehicle mine designed to explode on any contact and weight.
What is a comet that can only deal up to 300 damage. Laughable.
Honestly, a pretty good answer is that if the lower damage bound is 30, the "comet" just isn't that big really.
I-frames obviously
Don't forget that rogues get that perk (level 10 I think?) where they always get half damage whenever it calls for a DEX save and zero damage if they succeed
It's like jumping out of a car at highway speeds vs. jumping out of a car at highway speeds, tucking, and rolling. Either way, you'll be seriously hurt or killed, but one way is a little more likely to seriously hurt you and a little less likely to kill you than the other.
Also it's a world where one bardy boi singing real good has significant real life effects.
Why shouldn't someone be so good at dodging that they can evade half of the damage an explosion does?
Duh. You jump into the air and ride the air currents to safety. Everyone knows comets crashing creates waves of wind due to the displacement.
Probably to hide under a desk... I wonder if bringing your own gives you advantage on the roll?
Somebody needs to play with https://neal.fun/asteroid-launcher/
This is leaving out that a mile away from an impact that creates a 50-foot crater is in no way safe. Anyone know someone who could do the math on this?
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