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The radius of a D&D fireball (Was: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds")
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Tue, 1 Feb 2000 22:40:32 GMT
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JSPROAT@IO.nospamCOM
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Frank Filz wrote:
> Another interesting one I self taught myself was multiple integration. I
> had come up with this idea to come up with a formula to calculate the
> actual radius of a D&D fireball when it went off in a closed area. It
> was obvious to me that I needed to work with volumes, and I knew
> integration of a curve gave you an area, so I set out to figure out how
> to get a volume, and decided I needed to integrate twice. So I proved to
> myself that I could get the volume of a sphere by integrating the
> equation for a circle twice, and then set on my way. When we got to
> multiple integration in calculus a few months later, I said, "oh, that's
> what it's called." and went to sleep.
LOL
I got into the most heated (pun intended) argument with a DM once because
someone lit a fireball in a long and skinny hallway; the people past the
"radius" of the fireball were still damaged. Unfortunately, I was arguing for
what the DM Guide said; I didn't want my character to burn and asphyxiate!
Can you guess who lit the fireball? :-,
Cheers,
- jsproat
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
The glass is half empty, rapidly evaporating,
and breeding bacteria which will chew your skin off.
- BLOOP
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