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280 points cainxinth | 9 comments | 03 Jul 25 14:05 UTC | HN request time: 1.034s | source | bottom
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otikik ◴[03 Jul 25 16:31 UTC] No.44456740[source]▶
This reminds me of the "Dual Octo-cat Flail", invented by a friend of mine.

A flail is basically a stick with a pointy ball chained to one end. It does one attack per turn.

A dual flail attacks twice (it has two balls).

Now replace each ball by an octopus. And each octopi is holding a cat on each of its 8 tentacles. So when you attack, the cephalopods attack, and that means that 16 angry felines attack. I think at the time they came up with this animals had some sort of guaranteed damage exception in some cases (perhaps in a previous DND version?).

Anyway it was completely OP.

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1. dexwiz ◴[03 Jul 25 16:33 UTC] No.44456770[source]▶
How do you explain an octopus holding 8 cats, let alone keeping the octopodes alive for more than a day?
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2. Yizahi ◴[03 Jul 25 17:27 UTC] No.44457316[source]▶
Probably there was no need for that, because game evening has ended while everyone was arguing about correct plural name for octopuses :)
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3. petsfed ◴[03 Jul 25 17:44 UTC] No.44457470[source]▶
Obviously it's octopoxen

Like the inspiring concept, I think part of the joy of DnD is that it's often an invitation to discussions about irrelevant minutae. Provided the rules-lawyering doesn't take up all the oxygen in the room, it's a fun diversion.

4. nartho ◴[03 Jul 25 18:35 UTC] No.44457959[source]▶
It'd need to be enchanted with "Create Water".
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5. Loughla ◴[03 Jul 25 19:19 UTC] No.44458318[source]▶
Every single group I have ever played with, when playing with brand new Players, has had someone try to drown enemies with create water inside their lungs.

It generally devolves into an argument about whether or not human lungs count as an open container, but it always happens.

It's a human consciousness constant. It's amazing.

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6. pavel_lishin ◴[03 Jul 25 19:48 UTC] No.44458568[source]▶
A wizard did it.
7. sapphicsnail ◴[03 Jul 25 22:37 UTC] No.44459725[source]▶
My ex's goal in life is to get people to say octopodes because that's the proper Greek plural. Hasn't taken off yet
8. wink ◴[04 Jul 25 09:49 UTC] No.44462990{3}[source]▶
Even after 30 years of playing Shadowrun we still occasionally debate whether a fire ball with radius X will ignite the fuel in the driving vehicle. At least in this case it's a minor detail because iirc the rules actually state the fire manifests in the whole ball shaped area where there's no solid matter.
9. otikik ◴[04 Jul 25 14:04 UTC] No.44464683[source]▶
The cats are attached to the octopi same way the octopi are attached to the flail, obviously.

As per keeping them alive: they take short rests, like everyone else