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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 5494783" data-attributes="member: 6669384">So, all he needs is knowledge of a metal that doesn't exist, and the metal will exist?Or does he also need an understanding of a smelting process that doesn't exist, driven by a continuous supply of electricity that doesn't exist, to create the metal that doesn't exist?  So I guess that means no aluminum in your game world, eh? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />That's hilarious.Except that it means that there is still x amount of light energy all going to a lot of different places.  Like I said, the lens won't unify multiple light sources into one.  It's just a crossing point.  The only thing that this rig might do a "massive scale disintegrate" on is the lens itself, since that's the only place all the light is going to hit.So you check the GPS coordinates?  So you're arguing for a 50/50 miss chance?  Even Blindfighting won't help if you don't know which square to attack into.  Astronauts "see" via RADAR, spotter planes, land based observers on the radio, and yes, with their eyes.  The only one of these that exist in the D&D world is the eyes.  A general idea of knowing where things are?  Half of the American Civil War was a bloody comedy of errors because of inaccurate maps.  West Point was originally a cartography school (map making) and students had been mapping and remapping the entire region the war was fought on for generations, and with generations of surveys and mapmakers' notes, they still couldn't get any two maps to agree.  One general fought most of the war using a map from the fly leaf of a book, since it seemed more accurate than any of the others.  And with GPS, orbital photos and aerial surveilance, modern artillery still uses forward spotters.  The much vaunted pinpoint accuracy of the Tomahawk missiles used in Iraq was achieved through the efforts of men on the ground "painting" the target with a laser.  The guidance system on those missiles in fact use a visual recognition system within the missiles themselves.First, it's not a spell, it's a magic item.Second, it specifically says that it transports objects.  It also says that if you want to see through it you have to actually stick your head through.Third, "Energy" in D&D doesn't conform to real world logic, so attempts to apply your gut-level version of real world logic to the setting are a non-starter.  What form of real world "energy" radiates cold?  Cold is an active energy type in D&D, not just a lack of heat.Darkness exists in D&D in a manner that goes beyond a mere absence of light.  It's an active force.  Lightning doesn't follow any normal rules for an electrical discharge, in the D&D world.  It goes in whichever direction the caster points their finger, instead of arcing to the nearest grounded object (which would be the spell caster 99 times out of a hundred).Fireballs expand to a set radius, doing full damage all the way to the edge.Energy dispersal in general doesn't follow the inverse distance square rule in D&D.  It goes X distance then cuts off, hard and sharp.  No degradation of effect over that distance, no leak through beyond that distance.If you need to know how I feel about gut level logic/physics, go look up my posts on the hamster cannon.  You'll probably get a kick out of them.BTW:  Was there a reference in there to Black Holes transporting things?  As far as I know, all they do is crush them.</blockquote>

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