I feel silly. I'm letting physics get in the way of fun.

[Ketherian]

Hi RangerWicket.

Take a step back and describe the coolness to someone watching outside the trap. Now describe it to someone inside the trap. Add the required saving throws/damage info. If you can do both, you can run it. And please post the description here, the curious (well, me at least) want to know.

If someone wants to spend the time figuring out how it works - gods, magic, alchemy, ... there's lots of ways to explain it away in a magic/god-infested land; do you really need science in this instance?

 

[Umbran]

What do I do?

The movie people pay a hefty fee to misrepresent electricity like that. If you do it, Thomas Edison's secret corps of enforcers* will come for you. I wouldn't risk it.



* Edison is, of course, still alive as a brain in a jar, to give orders to secret enforcers.

 

[Nytmare]

* Edison is, of course, still alive as a brain in a jar, to give orders to secret enforcers.

I will never forget the moment that I discovered, all in the same copy of the Weekly World News that Hitler was still alive, and found in a Florida retirement home, and was also discovered to be a brain in a jar, located in a secret German bunker, who was sending out mysterious orders via radio transmission into outer space.

I wonder who would win in a fight between Edison's brain in a jar, and Hitler's brain in a jar? I mean aside from the obvious answer "Tesla's Brain in a Jar."

 

[Evenglare]

How do you think it works in the movies? Lightening bolts shooting everywhere ? No. But water... rather the impurities in the water carry electricity and CAN kill you... very much so. Want to run a live wire into water just to make sure? Go for it. I don't recommend it, but you can do it.

 

[Umbran]

I will never forget the moment that I discovered, all in the same copy of the Weekly World News that Hitler was still alive, and found in a Florida retirement home, and was also discovered to be a brain in a jar, located in a secret German bunker, who was sending out mysterious orders via radio transmission into outer space.

I once played in a three-year live-action campaign that was, in original conception, an immense setup for a "Prince Albert in a can" joke.