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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 1881477" data-attributes="member: 10913">D&D physics jokeAfter 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 a statistician, mathematician, and scientist for help.After a week, the statisticians came back with their solution. "By calculating the survivability chance vs. hoards size, one can clearly see in this graph that the optimal tactic is to tackle young-adult silver dragons in earth-brone lairs, to maximize profits." Unfortunaltely, the adventurers pissed off the deity of luck so were not wiloing to rely on probabilities, despite the statistician's assurance that a TPK was only 45% probable.After 6 months, the mathematician presented his solution. "Using the the definition of an ideal dragon, we can construct the space of all possible dragons. This space is non-commutative and congurrant, with an epsilon-sigma flurrety and with a countable number of Borrelean sets." "That's all nice and dandy" said the adventurers, "but what does any of this has to do with our problem?""Well," said the mathematician, "it doesn't - it's math."After a year, the party gets tired of waiting for the physicist and pays him a call. His office is a mess of papers strawn hapahzardly onto the floor, scribbles of arcane formulae on the walls in what appears suspicioulsy similar to blood, and several unidentifiable devices. The physicist himself is busy scribbling furiously into an ever-thinning stack of draft papers."So" say the adventurers, "have you finished working on our problem?"The physicist lifts his suprised gaze from his work, and pushes his glasses up with a sunlight-deprived pale hand. "Not yet", he says, "but I'm making huge progress! Look!" He steps into the blackboard, and proudly presents a set of incomprehensible formulas."What are we looking at?" ask the adventurers.With unabashed pride, the physicist proclaims "A point-like dragon in a vaccum!"OK, so it was better in the original... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /></blockquote>

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