Just wondering about D&D rules; can gods resurrect people on their own?
I mean, if Thor can give his clerics the power to bring people back from the dead, could he just skip the middleman and send Durkon back?
Sure, it's the literal definition of a Deus Ex Machina, but fate of the world here, guys.
Also, my understanding of the rules is it takes 1000gp or something worth of diamond to resurrect people. I can't believe that a DM somewhere hasn't had to deal with someone going "Right, I'll sell you this 50gp diamond for 1000gp. It's now 1000gp worth of diamond, cast your spell", but what's the official stance on that?
the spirit of the rule is the quantity of diamonds is what is relevant, not the price tag on them, the price tag is just a convenient way to measure quantities of generic objects.
Just wondering about D&D rules; can gods resurrect people on their own?
I mean, if Thor can give his clerics the power to bring people back from the dead, could he just skip the middleman and send Durkon back?
Sure, it's the literal definition of a Deus Ex Machina, but fate of the world here, guys.
Also, my understanding of the rules is it takes 1000gp or something worth of diamond to resurrect people. I can't believe that a DM somewhere hasn't had to deal with someone going "Right, I'll sell you this 50gp diamond for 1000gp. It's now 1000gp worth of diamond, cast your spell", but what's the official stance on that?
If I was DMing, I would allow them to attempt the spell with their 50gp diamond and it would fail no matter what. If they rolled badly, the failure might involve an exploding corpse.
Just wondering about D&D rules; can gods resurrect people on their own?
I mean, if Thor can give his clerics the power to bring people back from the dead, could he just skip the middleman and send Durkon back?
Sure, it's the literal definition of a Deus Ex Machina, but fate of the world here, guys.
Also, my understanding of the rules is it takes 1000gp or something worth of diamond to resurrect people. I can't believe that a DM somewhere hasn't had to deal with someone going "Right, I'll sell you this 50gp diamond for 1000gp. It's now 1000gp worth of diamond, cast your spell", but what's the official stance on that?
Some gods have the ability to revive people directly, even circumventing the rule against reviving those who die from old age, but it is usually reserved for the leader of a pantheon or a god devoted to life or healing.
the spirit of the rule is the quantity of diamonds is what is relevant, not the price tag on them, the price tag is just a convenient way to measure quantities of generic objects.
Just wondering about D&D rules; can gods resurrect people on their own?
I mean, if Thor can give his clerics the power to bring people back from the dead, could he just skip the middleman and send Durkon back?
Sure, it's the literal definition of a Deus Ex Machina, but fate of the world here, guys.
Also, my understanding of the rules is it takes 1000gp or something worth of diamond to resurrect people. I can't believe that a DM somewhere hasn't had to deal with someone going "Right, I'll sell you this 50gp diamond for 1000gp. It's now 1000gp worth of diamond, cast your spell", but what's the official stance on that?
There's not an official stance on that, except that D&D 3.5e is a game where gold is a mechanically relevant part of the standard powerlevel of characters and so everything costing "gold" is clearly less about actual economics and more about a secondary resource for customization/one time effects. This is abundantly clear when you consider that PC gold scales exponentially with level and even at low levels, your gear costs the equivalent of several years salary for peasants; if you actually wanted to bring economics into it even trying to purchase enough diamonds for a resurrection would be market distorting on its own. But that doesn't actually matter because gold is just "Cool Thingamabobs XP" and not actual money.
If a player actually tries to do this or stuff like this to the point it becomes a problem, the solution is to talk to the player; it's almost never the right call to solve out-of-game issues like "this player clearly wants to cheese their gold total" with in-game solutions.
Just wondering about D&D rules; can gods resurrect people on their own?
I mean, if Thor can give his clerics the power to bring people back from the dead, could he just skip the middleman and send Durkon back?
Sure, it's the literal definition of a Deus Ex Machina, but fate of the world here, guys.
Also, my understanding of the rules is it takes 1000gp or something worth of diamond to resurrect people. I can't believe that a DM somewhere hasn't had to deal with someone going "Right, I'll sell you this 50gp diamond for 1000gp. It's now 1000gp worth of diamond, cast your spell", but what's the official stance on that?
Some gods have the ability to revive people directly, even circumventing the rule against reviving those who die from old age, but it is usually reserved for the leader of a pantheon or a god devoted to life or healing.
the spirit of the rule is the quantity of diamonds is what is relevant, not the price tag on them, the price tag is just a convenient way to measure quantities of generic objects.
I have to assume in D&D settings there’s a powerful God of Commerce who implemented a universal gold piece based currency standard that doesn’t fluctuate or change in strength from country to country. So one GP is worth the same everywhere, inflation doesn’t exist, and a thousand gold worth of diamonds is always the same.
Woe betide unto all mortal fools who would dare to alter the strength of their currency, for the Lord of Dollars and the Shepherd of Gross National Products will smite thee with furious anger and swift monetary vengeance.
I have to assume in D&D settings there’s a powerful God of Commerce who implemented a universal gold piece based currency standard that doesn’t fluctuate or change in strength from country to country. So one GP is worth the same everywhere, inflation doesn’t exist, and a thousand gold worth of diamonds is always the same.
Woe betide unto all mortal fools who would dare to alter the strength of their currency, for the Lord of Dollars and the Shepherd of Gross National Products will smite thee with furious anger and swift monetary vengeance.
Waukeen is a huge jerk, as one would expect the goddess of capitalism to be.
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I have to assume in D&D settings there’s a powerful God of Commerce who implemented a universal gold piece based currency standard that doesn’t fluctuate or change in strength from country to country. So one GP is worth the same everywhere, inflation doesn’t exist, and a thousand gold worth of diamonds is always the same.
Woe betide unto all mortal fools who would dare to alter the strength of their currency, for the Lord of Dollars and the Shepherd of Gross National Products will smite thee with furious anger and swift monetary vengeance.
Waukeen is a huge jerk, as one would expect the goddess of capitalism to be.
She has a lovely promenade in her honor though. If I ever get the chance to name a mall or plaza I'm going to name it Waukeen's Promenade.
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Lincoln
Look, Amazing DnD buildings dedicated to gods are 13 a dozen. Athkatla is a cesspit of corruption, wickedness and magifascist despots.
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
I don’t understand what happened there. Was Mike catfishing the teacher and using the football player as cover?
Yeah. The implication is that what he said before was a lie. He does care about Ethan and Amber. He’s probably literally a sociopath or maybe that isnt the right term. It seems like the implication is that he’s capable of great evil but not towards them. He also in general seems to do cool things out of a twisted sense of doing good. This is consistent with the other version of Mike near the end of its walky would regularly tell someone a hard truth or fuck with them in a way that pushed them to be better people.
Edit: Also I hope you all appreciate the extreme strength of will I had to exercise to not steal any of that punchlines thunder. So many cropable bits in that last panel.
If you ever wonder what it’s like running the most popular newspaper comics blog on the internet, imagine looking at this Crankshaft comic and thinking to yourself, “Is there a joke here? Is it supposed to be character-driven, like we’re supposed to have enough of a feel for Max’s personality that we think it’s funny he did this? Or maybe it’s … wordplay of some kind,” and then you say the phrase “Max Axelrod loves my arugula” out loud, to nobody, in your home office, multiple times, and finally you just throw it up on your website and say I DUNNO, MAN
Broke as fuck in the style of the times. Gratitude is all that can return on your generosity.
If you ever wonder what it’s like running the most popular newspaper comics blog on the internet, imagine looking at this Crankshaft comic and thinking to yourself, “Is there a joke here? Is it supposed to be character-driven, like we’re supposed to have enough of a feel for Max’s personality that we think it’s funny he did this? Or maybe it’s … wordplay of some kind,” and then you say the phrase “Max Axelrod loves my arugula” out loud, to nobody, in your home office, multiple times, and finally you just throw it up on your website and say I DUNNO, MAN
Good comics are obviously good and bad comics can at least be fun to make fun of, but stuff like this is brain poison
I'm pretty sure it's the comics equivalent of visiting your grandma and having her tell you a "story" about how in the grocery store the other day she ran into a friend of hers you've never heard of and apparently her garden is doing very well this year.
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I mean, if Thor can give his clerics the power to bring people back from the dead, could he just skip the middleman and send Durkon back?
Sure, it's the literal definition of a Deus Ex Machina, but fate of the world here, guys.
Also, my understanding of the rules is it takes 1000gp or something worth of diamond to resurrect people. I can't believe that a DM somewhere hasn't had to deal with someone going "Right, I'll sell you this 50gp diamond for 1000gp. It's now 1000gp worth of diamond, cast your spell", but what's the official stance on that?
If I was DMing, I would allow them to attempt the spell with their 50gp diamond and it would fail no matter what. If they rolled badly, the failure might involve an exploding corpse.
Some gods have the ability to revive people directly, even circumventing the rule against reviving those who die from old age, but it is usually reserved for the leader of a pantheon or a god devoted to life or healing.
There's not an official stance on that, except that D&D 3.5e is a game where gold is a mechanically relevant part of the standard powerlevel of characters and so everything costing "gold" is clearly less about actual economics and more about a secondary resource for customization/one time effects. This is abundantly clear when you consider that PC gold scales exponentially with level and even at low levels, your gear costs the equivalent of several years salary for peasants; if you actually wanted to bring economics into it even trying to purchase enough diamonds for a resurrection would be market distorting on its own. But that doesn't actually matter because gold is just "Cool Thingamabobs XP" and not actual money.
If a player actually tries to do this or stuff like this to the point it becomes a problem, the solution is to talk to the player; it's almost never the right call to solve out-of-game issues like "this player clearly wants to cheese their gold total" with in-game solutions.
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Woe betide unto all mortal fools who would dare to alter the strength of their currency, for the Lord of Dollars and the Shepherd of Gross National Products will smite thee with furious anger and swift monetary vengeance.
Waukeen is a huge jerk, as one would expect the goddess of capitalism to be.
She has a lovely promenade in her honor though. If I ever get the chance to name a mall or plaza I'm going to name it Waukeen's Promenade.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
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So, remember that teacher that thought Amber was cheating simply because Amber was acing her tests? Well...
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
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Witchy
Yeah. The implication is that what he said before was a lie. He does care about Ethan and Amber. He’s probably literally a sociopath or maybe that isnt the right term. It seems like the implication is that he’s capable of great evil but not towards them. He also in general seems to do cool things out of a twisted sense of doing good. This is consistent with the other version of Mike near the end of its walky would regularly tell someone a hard truth or fuck with them in a way that pushed them to be better people.
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Boooo.
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Strong Female Protagonist
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But considering mel's trajectory, he hastened the inevitable.
But managed to profit
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
xkcd is about equations.
I don't know enough about equations to know how or if this is funny.
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Steam // Secret Satan
Thor god is best god.
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Steam // Secret Satan
Huh, thought tetsu was nb
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
They are. "She was deadly on the guard" is referring to Tetsu's trainer.
Because the person to the left of their conversation appeared to be thd subject in my eyes
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Alice and the Nightmare
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Good comics are obviously good and bad comics can at least be fun to make fun of, but stuff like this is brain poison
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I'm pretty sure it's the comics equivalent of visiting your grandma and having her tell you a "story" about how in the grocery store the other day she ran into a friend of hers you've never heard of and apparently her garden is doing very well this year.