• Nighed@feddit.uk
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    18 hours ago

    Wouldn’t it dispell the magic before it got to the ring? So your gun just exploded and your ring is now somewhere downrange?

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      17 hours ago

      You’d have to mount it on a wire a bit past the end of the barrel, or custom create a barrel that expands toward the end. Depends on whether dispelling the magic is an instant transformation, or if it “grows” at some rate.

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        56 minutes ago

        If you can shrink and expand stuff instantly, the thing getting bigger or smaller is the least useful part of that spell. You wouldn’t even need gunpowder to launch stuff, put a shrunk cannonball against a wall, expand it, hope the wall holds and it’s the cannonball that has to accelerate to light speed to not be in the same place as the wall. Or get a giant explosion, that’s more likely.

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      18 hours ago

      Yeah, if its range is enough to dispel a lock, then it must be at least an inch. So the cannon ball grows while an inch down the barrel.

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        18 hours ago

        Meme is still correct though as that’s my face while calculating what to change so they don’t TPK or something when they try it on the next encounter…

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          Rogue fires gun. Cannonball grows and shatters the gun. Gun pieces fall to floor in front of rogue. If you look, the ring is still in the wreckage, and still usable. Enemy spends a turn just looking at the rogue in amusement. Turn after goes as usual.

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            4 hours ago

            If a cannonball just sprouted in a gun barrel, the gun is gone and the hands that held it probably are too. There should be so much shrapnel

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            18 hours ago

            They would have gone all in on this strat and left themselves open for shenanigans.

            Or decided to test it inside or something.