Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Canada_K" data-source="post: 352455" data-attributes="member: 3735">Sorry to nit pick, but you cannot use Einstein's theory of relativity (E=mc^2) to calculate the energy in a human body.  Einstein's theory calculated how much energy an object would have if you accelerated it to the speed of light, whereupon all the matter disintigrated into dissociated particles of energy.This is an important point.  The energy in a pound of peanuts is theoretically infinite, but what you can practially extract from them is a whole other story, and it depends on what process you use.  If you burn it in an oven, you will get one quantity of energy as heat.  If you eat the peanuts you will get a a different quantity of energy in caloric value.  If somehow you can accelerate them to the sped of light, you could probably blow up planet Earth.I side with Xeriar, in that the energy you can get from the human body would be 3,500 kcal per pound of fat, 1556 kcal per pound of muscle, and probably next to nothing for bone.  In other words, a wizard's body slowly wastes away as he casts spells, much like he is starving to death.This is a phenominally cool concept, and it makes high level spells a truly life-threatening prospect.  A wizard could spend months gaining enough weight to become obese enough to survive the casting of a 9th level spell, which would leave him emaciated, possibly turning his skeleton to mush in the process.</blockquote>