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[–] 40 points 2 years ago

A literal caltrop

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The average peasant (so all of us) has 4hp. A lucky d4 roll can instantly kill a peasant in game. An unlucky d4 roll (i.e. going off the table) can instantly kill a peasant (D&D player) irl.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I looked it up on Anydice and it would have a 31.25% chance of killing a random Commoner. Unless they get death saves, in which case it's only a 12.5% chance.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Did you account for nat 20 and 1s in that calculus?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I did not. But if you get a nat 20, it's not a d4, is it? I assume they were accounted for in the death saves, but I just looked up the answer for that part.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    D20 to hit, D4 for damage

    If my hit die rolls a 20, is the damage not critical, and therefore dealing the most I possibly can?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's just Lego. (same with die and dice)

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    No, it’s LEGO bricks. LEGO is the brand name. If you want to be pedantic AND correct, you should be referring to them as “LEGO Brand construction bricks”, though if you’re referring to a boxed set, it’s “LEGO brand construction brick playset”.

    Or you could just not be douchey about it. Either way there is no connection to dice/die.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I suppose the correct pedantic way to say it is "Lego bricks" even in the plural. But brevity in titles is a thing I strive for. Less so in the comments section. Also marbles. Marbles feel surprisingly sharp for spheres when stepped upon.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don’t call it a Jacuzzi Hot Tub I don’t call it a Jet Ski Watercraft I don’t call it a Onesie Bodysuit. I don’t call them Popsicle Ice pops It’s not a Sharpie Permanent Marker

    Just saying the brand to mean the thing is wildly common, a Lego is a Lego, and if you’re trying to find a specific type of brick is the only name more words are needed.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    well sure. i’m not saying people should be calling them lego bricks. it’s fine to call them just legos or lego.

    but i think you missed my point, which was: don’t get all preachy about “you have to call them lego, you can’t say legos because it’s wrong”, when it’s equally as fucking wrong to call them lego. The company tells you to call them lego bricks, so if you’re going to go around telling people that one thing is wrong, you shouldn’t be telling them to instead use something else which is also wrong, because then you’re just being a douchebag.

    The equivalent here is if you were to call the markers “sharpie” as a plural, and go around confidently telling other people they’re wrong for saying “sharpies” because “look the company calls them sharpie permanent markers, so the proper plural form is obviously sharpie, just like how it works with dice/die” (which, again, there is no way in which the lego or sharpie situations are similar to the pluralization of die).

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wizards: "I don't get it."

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I'm a simple man: I see a Doctor Who meme, I upvote.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Only time my mom threatened to kill me is when she stepped on one. She was dead serious!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    So you're saying that not even a D4 likes to use itself for a damage die?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Better or worse than the C version of the same variety?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mean, at level 9, 5d (4+1) guaranteed damage is still pretty good. Especially for a 1st level spell. I did feel the need to make a 9th level guaranteed hit spell though.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Magic missile can become a lot more potent than that (on average):

    1. Make a Scribes wizard
    2. Take the Elemental Adept feat and pick something that very few creatures are immune to, e.g. thunder.
    3. Change the MM's damage to thunder.

    Now you can pew-pew to your heart's content with each pew doing a guaranteed 3 damage instead of 2, and puming the average damage of the pews from 3.5 to 3.75. Not a huge jump, but if you upcast it to level 5 with 7 pews, that's 26.25 on average instead of 24.5 with a minimum of 21 instead of 14.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago
    [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    MORK BORG disagrees since a players max health is easily 4 or below

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  • [+] 1 point 2 years ago