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<blockquote data-quote="Pergentile" data-source="post: 5484553" data-attributes="member: 6671368">Agreed. I really don't understand how the things (Other then the Teleport spell quote) you said were proper rebuttals of his points, but his arguments are VERY interesting to read, so please, have him continue.@ Wish: If you're in a campaign where a DM lets the Wish spell make a moon sized mass move at those speed... I know its supposed to be a powerful spell, but seriously?@ Skill Check: &quot;Rediculous proportions&quot; would have to be several thousand at least, even for an encouragable DM. Remember, you are working with calculations changing by fractions of seconds... thousands of them, and very VERY complex calculations to include the minimum dozens of variables.@ Attack Rolls: I don't think you could use skill checks in place of attack roles considering the entire thing is a weapon intended to cause damage. Do you use &quot;Profession: Archer&quot; to make shots with your bow?@ Russians: The Russians have computers that work at thousands of times the speed of a human mind while doing calculations, and have devices to find out the values of hundreds of variables. Get a Minor Deity to help you out maybe?Regardless of all these points, I find the idea VERY interesting. Instead of having a moon sized mass with all the mirrors on it, have the mirrors all separately orbiting the planet, at a speed to keep them fixed above a certain place. This would take a lot of variables out of the situation and would make the innumerable calculations a manageable amount.You would then be able to adjust each mirror separately, and as long as no outside force moved them, you could focus them on a city very realistically. If they ARE all on one mass, then you would just have to adjust them to focus on a point equal to the distance away the planet is, then just move the mass accordingly for a &quot;Moving beam of death&quot;. You could keep it trained on a barren landscape while not in use as its &quot;holster&quot;.My god I want to see where this idea ends up...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pergentile, post: 5484553, member: 6671368"] Agreed. I really don't understand how the things (Other then the Teleport spell quote) you said were proper rebuttals of his points, but his arguments are VERY interesting to read, so please, have him continue. @ Wish: If you're in a campaign where a DM lets the Wish spell make a moon sized mass move at those speed... I know its supposed to be a powerful spell, but seriously? @ Skill Check: "Rediculous proportions" would have to be several thousand at least, even for an encouragable DM. Remember, you are working with calculations changing by fractions of seconds... thousands of them, and very VERY complex calculations to include the minimum dozens of variables. @ Attack Rolls: I don't think you could use skill checks in place of attack roles considering the entire thing is a weapon intended to cause damage. Do you use "Profession: Archer" to make shots with your bow? @ Russians: The Russians have computers that work at thousands of times the speed of a human mind while doing calculations, and have devices to find out the values of hundreds of variables. Get a Minor Deity to help you out maybe? Regardless of all these points, I find the idea VERY interesting. Instead of having a moon sized mass with all the mirrors on it, have the mirrors all separately orbiting the planet, at a speed to keep them fixed above a certain place. This would take a lot of variables out of the situation and would make the innumerable calculations a manageable amount. You would then be able to adjust each mirror separately, and as long as no outside force moved them, you could focus them on a city very realistically. If they ARE all on one mass, then you would just have to adjust them to focus on a point equal to the distance away the planet is, then just move the mass accordingly for a "Moving beam of death". You could keep it trained on a barren landscape while not in use as its "holster". My god I want to see where this idea ends up... [/QUOTE]

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