The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness

[Nanshork]

I'm leaving my job this Friday, I don't have a new one lined up yet, and I'm stressing to the point that it's starting to cause actual problems.

 

Wanna move to Utah? Our IT dept. is always looking for good people. We're about to hire about 10 new project managers, too.

I appreciate the offer but I'm trying to stay in Texas.  I've got roots here.

[SolEiji]

I'm leaving my job this Friday, I don't have a new one lined up yet, and I'm stressing to the point that it's starting to cause actual problems.

 

Wanna move to Utah? Our IT dept. is always looking for good people. We're about to hire about 10 new project managers, too.

I appreciate the offer but I'm trying to stay in Texas.  I've got roots here.

Nanshork confirmed for Plant type.

[Amechra]

I wish you luck (at least we're in an economic upturn!)

[Frogman55]

And from what I hear, Texas is a relatively good place  to look for work, too.

[brujon]

Apparently, D&D does not have adequate rules about throwing objects.

The best i could come up with are the rules for throwing improvised weapons, which only gives a 10ft increment, which means you can only throw stuff up to 50ft, while taking a -10 penalty.

Which is laughable, when it's completely trivial to achieve retarded levels of strength, and in real life it's completely trivial to throw a small rock 100ft or more, so long as you're not trying to be accurate.

Unless i'm wrong and there's a rule somewhere that makes ME look retarded.

[dman11235]

A rock that's well shaped would be considered a true projectile.  But, I bet that you could not take a random object and throw it 50 feet and have it be effective.  Do remember that the range increment is the representation of how far a weapon is effective.

[Amechra]

Apparently, D&D does not have adequate rules about throwing objects.

The best i could come up with are the rules for throwing improvised weapons, which only gives a 10ft increment, which means you can only throw stuff up to 50ft, while taking a -10 penalty.

Which is laughable, when it's completely trivial to achieve retarded levels of strength, and in real life it's completely trivial to throw a small rock 100ft or more, so long as you're not trying to be accurate.

Unless i'm wrong and there's a rule somewhere that makes ME look retarded.

The key word there is 'accurate'.

[wotmaniac]

A rock that's well shaped would be considered a true projectile.  But, I bet that you could not take a random object and throw it 50 feet and have it be effective.  Do remember that the range increment is the representation of how far a weapon is effective.

Yeah, I've actually thrown a chair at somebody from about 20 feet (don't ask) ..... fairly ineffective, to be sure.

[Amechra]

Ugh.

I've got a migraine. I've had it since Monday morning.

[Quillwraith]

Computer problems. Again. 

[Jackinthegreen]

I've been maintaining a thread on MMO-C about the released Goblins vs Gnomes Hearthstone expansion.  They released 60 cards yesterday, so I had a lot of work cataloging stuff in order.  It caught up with me while I tried to go to sleep and I only got maybe 4 actual hours of sleep because the cards were making my brain go whacky.

O.O

[brujon]

Apparently, D&D does not have adequate rules about throwing objects.

The best i could come up with are the rules for throwing improvised weapons, which only gives a 10ft increment, which means you can only throw stuff up to 50ft, while taking a -10 penalty.

Which is laughable, when it's completely trivial to achieve retarded levels of strength, and in real life it's completely trivial to throw a small rock 100ft or more, so long as you're not trying to be accurate.

Unless i'm wrong and there's a rule somewhere that makes ME look retarded.

The key word there is 'accurate'.

Yes, but what if i want to throw something as far as i possibly can, without even aiming? D&D does not have rules for that. There are no rules for simply throwing something very far.

Suppose you're fighting the BBEG for some form of evil artifact that you need to throw into the mouth of a volcano in order to destroy it, and he is confronting you next to the mouth of the volcano... The caldera of which is several hundred meters wide.

You're not actually trying to hit a particular square (which would have an AC of 10), but actually just trying to throw it as far as you can in order for the evil artifact to fall into the mouth of the volcano.

If it's more than 50ft away, you can't do it.

Doesn't matter if you can bench-press an elephant, you can't throw the artifact farther than 50ft.

I feel this is a major design oversight.

[dman11235]

D&D is great in that you can use DM fiat, and that's part of the rules.  So for something like that, it's not an attack, it's a strength check.  And I think it DOES actually have rules for that, I can't remember where though.  Basically, you make a check, and if you miss by some amount you roll a d8 to see which direction you miss in.  Anyone know what I'm talking about?

[altpersona]

A rock that's well shaped would be considered a true projectile.  But, I bet that you could not take a random object and throw it 50 feet and have it be effective.  Do remember that the range increment is the representation of how far a weapon is effective.

Yeah, I've actually thrown a chair at somebody from about 20 feet (don't ask) ..... fairly ineffective, to be sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xaV-u7-pTA

[awaken_D_M_golem]

I've been maintaining a thread on MMO-C about the released Goblins vs Gnomes Hearthstone expansion.  They released 60 cards yesterday, so I had a lot of work cataloging stuff in order.  It caught up with me while I tried to go to sleep and I only got maybe 4 actual hours of sleep because the cards were making my brain go whacky.

O.O

There's an actual technique in Mind Hacking,
where you think really hard about something
for the 15 minutes before you go to bed,
but specifically Do Not solve the problem(s). 
Later when you wake up, your subconscious
will have churned away on the details enough,
that you might get an Aha! moment.
Your brain is going wacky in a good way 

  ... if you're wondering, this is where my kitty avatar's Tail comes from.

I'm trying a Mind Hack by brushing my teeth
in a different way every time, some left handed.
It's hard to do, like really hard.  Annoyingly so.

[Jackinthegreen]

But I don't need to churn away at any of the "problems" because I'm not interested in making decks and so forth.

Though I suppose I could use that technique for my ellipse project.  Short version of that is I've made a spreadsheet with the Ivory and Bessel series out to 256 terms and have been looking at ellipses that keep the same perimeter but have different eccentricities.  I wish I knew enough programming to be able to automate it, and I also wish I could have more accuracy for pi than just what Excel 2003 allows, which is somewhere between 10 and 15 digits I think?

Bit more of a rant along that line:  I left my written notes at my uncle's on Thanksgiving.  Hopefully he got the phone message I left asking him to bring the binder up when he comes to help finish off some house remodeling.

[bhu]

A rock that's well shaped would be considered a true projectile.  But, I bet that you could not take a random object and throw it 50 feet and have it be effective.  Do remember that the range increment is the representation of how far a weapon is effective.

Yeah, I've actually thrown a chair at somebody from about 20 feet (don't ask) ..... fairly ineffective, to be sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xaV-u7-pTA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgefT5_t62A

[littha]

I wish I knew enough programming to be able to automate it, and I also wish I could have more accuracy for pi than just what Excel 2003 allows, which is somewhere between 10 and 15 digits I think?

This might be of some help to you:
http://precisioncalc.com/What_is_xlPrecision.html

Excel complies to the IEEE 754 standard which requires precision up to 15 digits. Sucks to be sure but not much can be done about it at this point. (excel 2010 and 2013 also have this issue I think)

[trappedslider]

http://forum.nogoblinsallowed.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=5345 

[Kuroimaken]

Feels a lot like what happened here last year, except it was nationwide and for different reasons...