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280 points cainxinth | 2 comments | 03 Jul 25 14:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.541s | source
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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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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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nartho ◴[03 Jul 25 18:35 UTC] No.44457959[source]▶
It'd need to be enchanted with "Create Water".
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1. 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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2. wink ◴[04 Jul 25 09:49 UTC] No.44462990[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.