• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      Why can’t I destroy all the water in a human’s body? 🤔

      How about Enlarge Spell with Create Water to kill them with the entire weight of an Olympic sized swimming pool falling onto them from 20 feet in the air?

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    If it destroys water you have ions destroyed with the solution so no salt. Because it’s a part of the water. If you did destroy the water then you would get sodium and chloride plasma because it’s ionized.

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      Which is probably fine since, at this temperature, it will immediately convert to solid salt, albeit maybe with some impurities should some ions react with something else.

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        This is why I free nothing and only malloc().

        #WhoNeedsMemoryManagement

        #JustDownloadMoreRAM

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          You’re sick with Java-Python Syndrome. The only cure is C++. But you’re too old to master C++ before you segfault. Muahahahahaha!

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            You know, my biggest gripe with python isnt abstracted memory management. My biggest grip is duck typing

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              Duck typing is my favourite. Pry it from my cold dead (object that appears to be hands, and probably is, but maybe isn’t).

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              duck typing

              Script languages are very nice for writing pre-100-lines long listings. Where you can keep all types in your head. Consider Python uber-bash. Unsuitable for anything else, though.

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    i will get to a level where i have as many slots of destroy water as possible, and i will spend the rest of my life casting destroy water on the ocean, until it is completely dry. is that something i’d be able to do, or is that not possible? (i play pathfinder, not d&d, so i don’t know)

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        oh don’t worry i’m sure there are a bunch of gods that are against slowly destroy watering the entire ocean

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      Assuming a level 20 druid, you’d have 32 slots 1 or above, 2 gallons per caster level so 40 gallons per cast, that’s 1,280 gallons per day or however fast you can regain spells. A bit shy of half a million gallons in a year. A particularly long-lived elf could destroy 280 million gallons before keeling over.

      Now it depends how big the world you’re on is, but if it’s earth-like, the smallest ocean on earth is… 4.9 quintillion gallons.

      4,900,000,000,000,000,000

      So while you wouldn’t make a dent, a character with an irrational war against the ocean is hilarious and you should do it anyway.

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        So, the problem isn’t how much water but how much time?

        Become lich, be immortal, problem solved.

        Now it’s a race between you and the heat death of the universe or pissing off some God of the Sea for fucking up their backyard.

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        wait wait wait

        could i just kinda put a stick on the mouth of a bag of holding and throw it in the ocean? (the stick is for keeping it open)

        then i could throw a bunch of those in the ocean, and it’ll at least help destroy it.

        if this works like i think it does, i’ll get something that lets me craft bags of holding, and i’ll just spend the rest of every day (after casting destroy water) crafting bags of holding to throw into the ocean

        also, don’t worry about age. i am going to become a lich like someone suggested, so that i can just stay there, destroying the ocean very, very slowly, forever.

        and please correct me if anything i said isn’t possible!

        • cast Gate on the bottom of the ocean

          20ft wide portal to whatever other plane you want to dump the ocean in

          at the bottom of the mariana trench you’d get some 200,000,000 gallons per minute through that sucker

          it’ll still take more than 3 million years (per very naive, optimistic napkin math) to drain all the oceans but you can probably find other people to join your mad ocean destruction cult over that time and get things going in parallel

          the real question is: where are you putting all this water

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          For the amount of money you’d waste throwing bags into the ocean, you’d probably be better off hiring people to cast destroy water.

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        Maybe the duid can team up with a lvl 20 wizard that will open a Gate with his 9 lvl spell slot from the bottom of the ocean.
        Dunno how to do the math, but a 20 feet diameter sink in the ocean opened in the sky of another plan for one minute may be faster (in spell slot economy) than lvl 9 destroy water.

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      Bloodplasma is mostly water, but blood is only about 55% plasma. Unsurprisingly, your blood actually has a LOT of stuff in it, like red blood cells.

      Unless you want to count water in cells, but that would do the stuff that the spell doesn’t do.

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    To me, this just raises all sorts of questions about how magic works, mechanically speaking, in this setting. Does this only work on water in a container (which is not really a thing scientifically speaking) because that’s the consensus of what practitioners believe it can do? Was the spell designed like this by its inventor?

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      That would fall under the first part of this meme. You cannot see the fluid lining of his brain unless it is exposed in which case I feel like there’s a far easier method of murder.

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        You cannot see the fluid lining of his brain unless it is exposed

        I would like to submit, as a counterpoint, the Ring of X-Ray Vision from the 2014 5e basic ruleset.

        Soooo… Destroy Water, please, Mr. DM.

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          Once again, this still falls within the first part of the meme as it violates the spells wording of “open container”. If you’re using X-Ray vision to see the brain then the brain is within a closed container.

          Soooo… No, Mr. Player

          <3

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      Could you threaten the salt vendor with that?

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    Salt? Wait… sea warer can also contain so much more like magnesium. A perfect component for… explosive… with water…