[DnD] D&D thread of planning and discussing things so people can see how OCD we all are.

Ok fair warning I'm not really up to this degree of math and if I can't figure it out within the next day or so I'm just going to answer with my middle finger and charge the cave.

On a totally unrelated note a new healer may be required shortly.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

This is why we keep Shin around. He's a mathamagician.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

What do you figure the chances are that the cave is filled with 35 minions?

Also I'm coming up with 1/138 as being the chances but I'm roughly 43% sure I fucked up somewhere along the way.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Even if it's 35 minions, they'll murder you. Minions die quick, but do full damage.

I originally thought it might be some permutation of Bertrand's Box, but the numbers don't line up.

How ya doing, buddy?

Fair enough I'm basically support/off striker with piss poor ac so I would undoubtedly die quickly. But! and maybe this is just me getting too into it but I think that's what Uxig would do. You know being a tiny maladjusted gnome eating lizard barbarian and all.

Then again maybe I'm just being an enormous dipshit. It's always good to leave these things open to interpretation.

I was speaking idiomatically.

The way I see the math is: 10/35 x 25/34.

250/1190.

.21008

21%.

But Shin will probably come in and tell me I'm stupid.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

10 Xivorts, 25 Imps so the chances of the first thing out being a Xivort is 10/35. The chances of the second thing coming out being an Imp, given that the first was a Xivort is 10/35 * 25/34 = so close to 21% it might as well be exact.

So yeah, Deni was spot on.

FELIPE NO

Chanic, laying them out in a star of David will get you 8 triangles, two big ones and six round the outside. Not sure if that's the best answer mind you but it seems to me to be a good place to start.

Not sure about the other one. I can get eight rows max after a couple of tries:

                                 *

                         *      *       *

                   *            *              *

                         *              *

I hate these kind of spacial awareness things, anyone here autistic?

Ok, I can get nine. File attached...

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I think if I burn my daily that grants regeneration that combined with getting 8 temp hp each time I kill something is going to make this go pretty smoothly if a little slow.

Do not worry though the math you guys did on my behalf will be put to a good use.

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I figured out the tree puzzle without too much trouble. A 3x3 grid gives you 8 liines - you just need to turn two of those lines into Xs and you're golden.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I don't get it.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

... i can't think of any better hints, other than that you only need to move two trees. they're the same trees you moved for your 9 line solution, just put elsewhere.

if you want me to post the solution, i will, but that's no fun at all.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I'm sure Wvlf can fight his way out if need be, don't ruin it for the party until we ask. To be fair, I've given it no more than five minutes thought but I do suck at these kind of puzzles. Give me some maths I can solve with a spreadsheet any day of the week.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Thanks for the Star of David suggestion, Shin, but I'm pretty sure in this particular puzzle you are supposed to treat each rod as a side of a whole triangle. I've seen it before as an exercise to think in 3D.

If Pang says my assumptions are off, your solution is probably the answer.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Wvlf, I have an answer if you want it, although I can't take any credit for it.

Most amazing jew boots

Heh, looks like you were right Shin. No reward for me

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Clearly you should have just murdered all the gnomes to begin with.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Agreed. They were jerks anyway.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Shin, my problem is that I can only get 8 rows. Not the 10. I was originally thinking the 3x3 block, so the fallacy would have come from counting the two middle rows twice (the ones that form the +), so any help past that would be appreciated. Also, I would have totally been on here yesterday but I couldn't connect at school for some reason.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I'll give you the hints i gave Shin - if you start with the 3x3 block, you only need to move two of the trees. In Shin's example where he got nine rows but not ten (on the previous page somewhere), he moved the correct trees, just to the wrong places. I think the only other hint i gave had something to do with turning lines into Xs.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Or to put it another way:

Spoiler:

*    *    *

  *  *  *

*    *    *

I was speaking idiomatically.

Dammit. I'm such an idiot.

Wait, that still doesn't quite work. Now we have vertical rows of 2, so there's still only 8 lines.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

It works. Three horizontal lines, one vertical line. A tall skinny "X" on either side, and one huge "X" made from the four corners and the center.

FELIPE NO

Anybody got any lightning based powers?


Edit: Ok I looked and Wvlf's Spellbinders gift could turn at least half of our weapons to lightning damage and we could dip them in the water and fry whatever those are. Anyone have any feelings about this plan?

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

If you're desperate to kill all the fish then that might work, sure.

Jam it back in, in the dark.