Proof 4e is broken

[Unkabear]

This could never have happened in 3e, because the Paladins would have needed to atone.

foflshic*

The question is...how would we use the baby at the end of the line for our best benefit? I can only assume it would be as a weapon. But considering things like a piece of straw going through telephone poles without breaking the child will be going so fast that they would go through the terrask** without harm coming to the child.




*fall on floor laughing so hard I cried
**or whatever single villian or line of villians you please

 

[Corsair]

Why not have them all be 1st level commoners in 3rd edition, handing an item to each other? Or god forbid 0th level NPCs from even earlier editions?

 

[DeLiRiUm]

Actually, in the example given you aren't violating relativity at all. Relativity tells us no information can be transmitted faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. However, what you mention in the OP is the same as getting billions of people in a straight line and telling them to turn on a light at a precise time (the first person at 0 second, the next at 0.00000000001 second, etc)...

The effect is that to an outsider the wave of light is traveling faster than c, but no information was transmitted as the entire thing was planned out. Ergo, relavity is still in tact.

And that's your daily physics lession.

 

[Steely Dan]

Same thing in 3rd Ed, with adjacent characters lined up around the world passing a rock down the line.

"Pass the wire!"

 

[Matthias]

3E already breaks relativity by letting an object be dropped as a free action (and free actions take no time at all to perform, though they consume a nonzero amount of effort since characters are limited to some indefinite number of free actions per turn). Since an object isn't considered "dropped" until it actually hits the ground*, it must travel a nonzero distance, but it does so instantaneously. And since it travels a nonzero distance over a zero period of time, it does so at an infinite velocity.




*releasing one's hold on an object without that object traveling any distance would merely be described as "letting go," rather than "dropping"