Searing Light

[Alexander123]

Considering the level of debate everyone is putting into this thread (except you of course), to say its not serious is to insult it, and everyone discussing it. A discussion is as serious as the people discussing it. The topic itself is irrelevant. Not to mention, I personally think the mechanical and theoretical possibility of a satellite based weapon is serious in the real world, so why not in a complex game that we all like enough to post on forums like these? Again, I think you should stop posting, before you make yourself look like even more of an ***.

Yes, no doubt to say that people should relax and not to take something seriously is very insulting.

A topic is not as serious as the people discussing it.

You cannot seriously discuss the fact that in the Soviet Union a law was passed which made the punishment for attempted suicide death nor can you seriously discuss the existence of interstate highways in hawaii.

The topic is not irrelevant.

D&D is not a sci-fi game, it is a fantasy game. It is intentionally designed to be a fantasy and not a sci-fi game. Which perhaps might explain why some people are resistant to guns in their game. (although this doesn't mean that I disapprove of Dandu's idea since magic is equivalent to science in D&D in my view, people just want to maintain the middle-age feel of D&D)

I think Dandu's idea is a very creative way of figuring out the implications of magic and I am not particularly interested in disguising my desire to maintain the middle-age feel (somewhat, my own preference is a steampunk feel, and not a middle-age feel in fact.) by criticizing the idea as not doable.

 

[Pergentile]

The defense against asteroids is a good point. Perhaps the lazer could be made to be in a bubble of another realm, so you could see it, as it would effect light/energy/etc, but would have no physical mass so wouldn't be threatened by such things?

@ Trolololol: Since "lazer" is just a cool word for high energy ray, I would consider it to be fire for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction and killing trolls at the least, and a Disintegrate with an area of 500 square meters (5 kilometers) at most.

Also, perhaps the whole thing could be rigged to be controlled from somewhere on-planet. Anyone ever see the Helios One from Fallout New Vegas?

Edeit: @ Alex: Relaxing is not an antonym of serious... learn English. The subjects you used as examples could very well be discussed seriously, as discussion could simply be the stupidity of, or of the lack of such things. That you can't do so is a sign of your own inability to add anything productive to a serious conversation.

That being said, I have to say that your latest response actually is getting there as far as being valuable goes, so I withdraw my advice for you to stop posting.

 

[Alexander123]

[MENTION=85158]Dandu[/MENTION], check out the Eldritch Machines in the ECS.

They bear some resemblence to your idea.

 

[Alexander123]

Edeit: @ Alex: Relaxing is not an antonym of serious... learn English.

It's synonym first of all, and for one who is telling me to learn English, you don't seem to be that knowledgeable yourself.

 

[Dandu]

Let's agree that no one's English is perfect and move on.

 

[Plane Sailing]

I didn't tell you to stop. I told you, "if you do x, you SHOULD stop". No need to get defensive just because I made a simple statement of fact. Considering the level of debate everyone is putting into this thread (except you of course), to say its not serious is to insult it, and everyone discussing it. A discussion is as serious as the people discussing it. The topic itself is irrelevant. Not to mention, I personally think the mechanical and theoretical possibility of a satellite based weapon is serious in the real world, so why not in a complex game that we all like enough to post on forums like these? Again, I think you should stop posting, before you make yourself look like even more of an ***.

Also: I justify this off topic response by saying yours is also off topic, and was first.

The defense against asteroids is a good point. Perhaps the lazer could be made to be in a bubble of another realm, so you could see it, as it would effect light/energy/etc, but would have no physical mass so wouldn't be threatened by such things?

@ Trolololol: Since "lazer" is just a cool word for high energy ray, I would consider it to be fire for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction and killing trolls at the least, and a Disintegrate with an area of 500 square meters (5 kilometers) at most.

Also, perhaps the whole thing could be rigged to be controlled from somewhere on-planet. Anyone ever see the Helios One from Fallout New Vegas?

Edeit: @ Alex: Relaxing is not an antonym of serious... learn English. The subjects you used as examples could very well be discussed seriously, as discussion could simply be the stupidity of, or of the lack of such things. That you can't do so is a sign of your own inability to add anything productive to a serious conversation.

That being said, I have to say that your latest response actually is getting there as far as being valuable goes, so I withdraw my advice for you to stop posting.

Quite enough of that kind of behaviour, thank you very much. You've recently joined, which is good, but you signed up to the civility section of our terms and conditions, and we expect people to keep them.

Thanks

 

[Alexander123]

What did you think of the Eldritch Machine Dandu?

 

[Dandu]

Don't have the book.

 

[Alexander123]

That seems odd that you don't have the Eberron Campaign Setting.

 

[JamesonCourage]

It's synonym first of all, and for one who is telling me to learn English, you don't seem to be that knowledgeable yourself.

an·to·nym (nt-nm)
n.
A word having a meaning opposite to that of another word.