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Peasant Railgun

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jks ◴[] No.44455939[source]
Why the number 2,280? What keeps you from adding peasants until your projectile travels at 0.99c?
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1. pavel_lishin ◴[] No.44455980[source]
I'm guessing to get a nice, round number of two miles:

> At the start of combat, the chain of events is initiated and that wooden rod is carried two miles in 6 seconds which means it had to accelerate to the speed of 1900 miles per hour. This is due in part that a medium creature (which human peasants categorize as) takes up a one-by-one 5 foot square. Multiply that space times 2,280, and you easily get a line that spans two miles.

As far as why two miles, specifically? I don't know. Wizards can cast Meteor Swarm out from a range of one mile, so maybe there's something that can counter-act this nonsense from a range of 1.9?