Lol, not it’s not. Wood has a stress limit. Suspension wiring has a stress limit. Hell, the human arm has a stress limit, but if you distribute the weightaccordingly, according to physics, one human arm can move a massive ship from themiddle of a city to the coast. It’s beendone. I think it was Archimedes who saidhe could move the earth if he had but another earth in which to put hislever.
Having an 8001 lbs house on two rods doesn’t automaticallymagically make both rods having to lift all 8001 lbs. That’s nonsense. Here’s the rule: The rod can hold up to 8,000pounds of weight. More weight than thatwould cause the rod to deactivate and fail.
It doesn’t say it can only hold up objects that weigh lessthan 8,000 lbs. It says that it can holdup to 8,000 lbs. If you evenlydistribute 8,000 lbs on four rods, then each rod is only holding up 2,000lbs.
It’s called physics. I understand this is a magical item that is already breaking the laws ofphysics, but it is very specific in the manner in which it breaks them. It causes the rod to become fixed inspace. No other laws of weightdistribution are affected.
Here’s another example. If you and I were to lift something that weighed two hundred pounds, andeach of us can only lift 120, will we be unable to lift it? No. Because each of us, assuming it’s evenly balanced, will only be lifting100 lbs.
I could go on, but this is a dead horse at this point. A floating house would be awesome, and a verygood and unique way to use items like this, if you could afford the number itwould require.
…until someone came up and started pressing the buttons todeactivate them. Deactivate enough ofthem, and the house comes tumbling down…
And as far as magic not requiring physics, this is alsoa false statement. A fireball createsfire, and then the fire does its thing. The “Levitate” spell can make a person float, but they still havemass. A poison dart spell pumps poisoninto a person, which only affects them if poison affects them.
Physics is avery real thing in a magical world. Magic is just a way to do things that are otherwise impossible throughphysics, like creating something out of nothing. That something still has mass, thingsaffected by magical spells are affected according to physics, unless the spellfurther breaks those laws, specifically. Unless you make sure to create a fireball spell that specifically doesn’tburn things, it’s gonna burn things when its cast.
If nothingelse, wizards are the scientists of the DND world, as they understand the lawsof physics better than anyone, because you need to understand the laws in orderto understand how to break them. Or at least, those wizards who invented spells understand physics. Everyone else is just copying.