Jastermereel
2009-06-23, 05:35 PM
I know that debating the physics of a role playing game kills catgirls, but this seems more blatant than the average nekocidal exploit.
I was reading through the DMG looking for rules for mobs and stumbled onto this tidbit from the section on rooftops:
Eventually a character runs out of roof, requiring a long jump across to the next roof or down to the ground. The distance to the next closest roof is usually 1d3x5 feet horizontally, but the roof across the gapy is equally likely to be 5 feet higher, 5 feet lower, or the same height. Use the guidelines on page 77 of the Player's Handbook (a horizontal jump's peak height is one-fourth of the horizontal distance) to determine whether a character can make the jump.
It's been a little while since my high-school (and college) classes covering Newtonian physics, so I could be completely wrong here, but, isn't a jump more or less a parabolic arc? Wouldn't the peak height of a long-jump be at exactly half the distance of the jump?
EDIT: Wow...I'm really feeling stupid now :redface:
Thank you all for pointing out the obvious. Please, feel free to NOT point it out further :smalltongue:
I was reading through the DMG looking for rules for mobs and stumbled onto this tidbit from the section on rooftops:
Eventually a character runs out of roof, requiring a long jump across to the next roof or down to the ground. The distance to the next closest roof is usually 1d3x5 feet horizontally, but the roof across the gapy is equally likely to be 5 feet higher, 5 feet lower, or the same height. Use the guidelines on page 77 of the Player's Handbook (a horizontal jump's peak height is one-fourth of the horizontal distance) to determine whether a character can make the jump.
It's been a little while since my high-school (and college) classes covering Newtonian physics, so I could be completely wrong here, but, isn't a jump more or less a parabolic arc? Wouldn't the peak height of a long-jump be at exactly half the distance of the jump?
EDIT: Wow...I'm really feeling stupid now :redface:
Thank you all for pointing out the obvious. Please, feel free to NOT point it out further :smalltongue: