all is rotten
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As a boring killjoy D&D rules lawyer, I might point out that this will definitely lead to “them” winning, since you are killed when you attune, and therefore can never deal the 1d8 bludgeoning + 30d12 radiant damage.
Nothing to attune to hear. You clap balls, they die. Anyone can do it!
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Oh sure, but when I created the plutonium golem, that was too dangerous. Pfft.
Edit: would heavy lead full plate armor help?
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As a boring killjoy D&D rules lawyer, I might point out that this will definitely lead to “them” winning, since you are killed when you attune, and therefore can never deal the 1d8 bludgeoning + 30d12 radiant damage.
The effect is not instant, you only die days later. Short term (like a fight) there is no change.
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Oh sure, but when I created the plutonium golem, that was too dangerous. Pfft.
Edit: would heavy lead full plate armor help?
Would have to be heavy enough that you couldn’t move. You’d be a sitting duck for the bludgeoning damage
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The effect is not instant, you only die days later. Short term (like a fight) there is no change.
Mmm this is a good interpretation. You get radiation poisoning and only die later. If for whatever reason, this item appeared at my table and we needed to adjudicate this, I would totally accept this reading.
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Non-magical??
This is literally one of the most magical things we have.
This and putting lightning in rocks to do math.
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I’m not aware of any nonmagical items that require attunement, so I think that point also stands. If you were to use such an item without attunement and it were magic, you would do the bludgeoning damage and not the radiant damage.
It’s non magical, therefore attunement is not required for the effect. Attuning is a process, right? You spend time with the item, maybe fiddle with all the bits, really understand what it does and how it works. If you attempt to undertake that process with this item it will kill you.
Furthermore, that extra damage should really be conditional, you might not always close the demon core on impact. Maybe on an 8 for damage it’s such a direct hit that the radiant damage triggers
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“Ah, but I have relentless endurance!”
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I thought death broke attunement, and you had to reattune after being resurrected?
You are right, forgot about that. But someone else mentioned already it’s nonmagical so i guess the attunement caveat is just for flavour
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Wouldn’t it be easier to make radiant armor around the core and use it like a laser with a very restricted line of sight?
“Hey big bad guy, wanna see what I’ve got in my lead box?”
BBG: “Huh?”
*opens box*
BBG:
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On one hand it probably should just be fire damage, but I also like the idea that radiant damage type is just radiation.
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A video ontopic to such weapons: https://youtu.be/0sjctSy0vL4
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On one hand it probably should just be fire damage, but I also like the idea that radiant damage type is just radiation.
I mean technically fire damage is also radiation, and cold damage is… Entropy? Anti-radiation?
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If we were still on Reddit, I would link r/explainthejoke. What is this about?
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If we were still on Reddit, I would link r/explainthejoke. What is this about?
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Oh. Yeah. That just screams Darwin Award.
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