I dont remember exactly what we did, but i remember we had a situation where one of my fellow players was a centaur. The dm ruled that if you were to use a battering ram while riding said centaur, both your strengths get added together for the check. The person riding the centaur has something that enabled them to more effectively use tools they were holding, i think it was if they used a handheld tool they got advantage with it. And then we had one more player who was a turtle person. As long as they were in their shell they got a ton of defense buffs. So, we had player 2 hold player 3 while they both climbed onto player 1. We then proceeded to use player 3 as a battering ram against a magical door that we couldnt figure out how to open. After rolls went through, we ended uo blowing the door down so violently that is killed most of the spawn in the next room

Wouldn’t jumping off the top of a space elevator just put you in orbit? Or, if by top you mean the point where the space elevator anchors to its counterweight, in orbit around the sun.

Never seen a sky diver? Head down vs belly flop changes their speed

which is why the dm is able to stop them in their tracks by enforcing the game rule about not calculating speed for damage

Define damage. Can it pass through the middle of organs? Sure, if it hits just right. But that’s not so much a question of speed.

You’d need a pin needle shape to have a chance of piercing an organ without causing lasting damage, but it will probably break on impact

I think it’s totally valid to run a realistic game where realism takes precedence over game rules, but then the “passing of the object” part fails.

It’s also totally valid to run RAW game, but then it fails like you said.

So no matter what game you run, the railgun makes no sense.

What would make sense with a RAW game is to use the railgun for fast travel/fast transport, but then again for it to give a decent advantage, you need thousands or millions of peasants who willingly cooperate, which also won’t really work in most games.

Just like ghosting through it or something

Peasants, how do they work?

You say that as if nuclear energy isn’t also just boiling water

Only if you have a peasant chain leading up to the building

unless it’s cool

Still won’t stop you from eventually reaching the same speed tho.

…yes it will.

Terminal velocity occurs when the forces pulling ng you and pushing back at you are in balance. The drag force is a lot higher when you’re a larger profile. The balancing will occur sooner

Often and for little pay.

OK, you’ve got space elevators wrong, and that’s OK.

The counter-weight doesn’t orbit the sun. It orbits earth. If it orbited the sun it’d rip the thing apart. It sits somewhere above a geostationary orbit, as a geostationary orbit is where the orbit point is always over the same point on the ground, which would be where your elevator is tethered.

The station part is somewhere below this. The higher it is the heavier or further out your counter-weight needs to be —and since it’s already impossible around earth no matter what, this needs to be as low as possible.

Because of this setup, your velocity (while below the geostationary line) is always less than the orbital velocity at that altitude. For example, the ISS orbits the earth 15.5 times a day. Our point on the space elevator cable stays at the exact same position over the ground, so it orbits 0 times. At the same altitude as the ISS you need to be moving the same speed as the ISS or you’ll fall down. It only doesn’t while attached to the cable because it’s being pulled by the counter-weight.

Basically, stuff dropped off a space elevator falls, unless it’s at geostationary altitude. It needs to be given some extra horizontal speed to stay in orbit.