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<blockquote data-quote="hong" data-source="post: 1881379" data-attributes="member: 537"><p>After the 7th time they fought a dragon and got piddly rewards for it, a group of adventurers were pondering the problem of how to maximise the amount of XP they got out of a dragon encounter. So they went to some engineers for help.</p><p></p><p>After 2 months, the engineers came back with a proposal to fix the problem. However, it would cost 10,000 gp to implement, including the cost of flying all the engineers to Tahiti for a conference on Dragonslaying: Concepts, Challenges and the Connection with Materials Science. The adventurers said no way, we pay enough for resurrection at the temple, we haven't got that kind of money. So they went to some physicists.</p><p></p><p>After 6 months, the physicists came back with a proposal to fix the problem. However, it would cost 50,000 gp to implement, and would involve demolishing half the buildings in Greyhawk to make way for a Linear Draconic Accelerator to test the results of smashing dragons together (because, you know, metallic and chromatic dragons are antiparticles of each other, so if they ever touch, they mutually annihilate and release gamma rays). The adventurers said no way, we pay enough for magic weapons at the magic shop, we can't afford that. So they went to some mathematicians.</p><p></p><p>After a week, the mathematicians came back with a conclusive proof on how to triple all XP awards for a dragon without any added risk or spending on items. The adventurers said no way! The mathematicians said way! So the adventurers eagerly grabbed the scroll the proof was written on (and which also had a note in the margin that the mathematicians had also discovered a marvelous demonstration that the equation <em>x[sup]n[/sup] + y[sup]n[/sup] = z[sup]n[/sup]</em> has no solutions in integers for <em>n</em> > 2, but the scroll was too small to contain it), and started reading.</p><p></p><p>The first line of the proof read: "Consider a spherical dragon...."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hong, post: 1881379, member: 537"] After the 7th time they fought a dragon and got piddly rewards for it, a group of adventurers were pondering the problem of how to maximise the amount of XP they got out of a dragon encounter. So they went to some engineers for help. After 2 months, the engineers came back with a proposal to fix the problem. However, it would cost 10,000 gp to implement, including the cost of flying all the engineers to Tahiti for a conference on Dragonslaying: Concepts, Challenges and the Connection with Materials Science. The adventurers said no way, we pay enough for resurrection at the temple, we haven't got that kind of money. So they went to some physicists. After 6 months, the physicists came back with a proposal to fix the problem. However, it would cost 50,000 gp to implement, and would involve demolishing half the buildings in Greyhawk to make way for a Linear Draconic Accelerator to test the results of smashing dragons together (because, you know, metallic and chromatic dragons are antiparticles of each other, so if they ever touch, they mutually annihilate and release gamma rays). The adventurers said no way, we pay enough for magic weapons at the magic shop, we can't afford that. So they went to some mathematicians. After a week, the mathematicians came back with a conclusive proof on how to triple all XP awards for a dragon without any added risk or spending on items. The adventurers said no way! The mathematicians said way! So the adventurers eagerly grabbed the scroll the proof was written on (and which also had a note in the margin that the mathematicians had also discovered a marvelous demonstration that the equation [i]x[sup]n[/sup] + y[sup]n[/sup] = z[sup]n[/sup][/i] has no solutions in integers for [i]n[/i] > 2, but the scroll was too small to contain it), and started reading. The first line of the proof read: "Consider a spherical dragon...." [/QUOTE]
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