Kenny_Snoggins
2022-09-26, 10:20 AM
Wondering if this is RAW, and what the damage would be.
Obtain a decanter of endless water (usually pretty easy) and a portable hole (significantly harder). Fill entire portable hole with sand or whatever aggregate. Assuming sand here because it's easy, would also work with masonry, random rocks, whatever. I think the cubic volume of the hole is about 1100ft3. Sand is about 150lb/ft3. Assuming 20% porosity in the sand, lets call it 132,000 pounds of sand. Fill in the porosity with your decanter of endless water. Shouldn't take too long. Wizard or whoever now casts shape water enough times to freeze the surface area of the slurry mixture with ice. The cylinder would have a surface area of around 600 ft2. Only 20% of that surface area is actually water though based on our porosity assumption, so 120ft2. To freeze a foot thick all the pore water on the edges would take about 24 casts of shape water, or about 2.5 minutes continous casting for a single caster. Total weight of the mix now is around 145,000 pounds, give or take. You've laid the portable hole down before filling it on a sheet of some inconspicous looking material, which can be easily disguised with illusion cantrips.
Enter combat. Let's say you have a 20' ceiling wherever you are fighting, not too high, not too short, probably pretty normal. Wizard and Bard hold action for 'Enlarge Reduce' with the trigger being when the iceblock falls out the hole. A flying ally or summon or pet or whatever/ someone with a broom of flying / spider climbing rogue / whoever gets access to the roof and opens the rolled up sheet, portable hole side down, directly over the BBEG. If you were outside and had a find greater steed mount or whatever you could do this up to 100' high although I wouldn't go above that since it might take a round extra to hit him and he could get away. But let's assume that is the case, since it's the most dramatic still likely situation.
Block slides out of the hole directly overhead the enemy and begins to fall. Held actions trigger. Block increases from size large and 145,000 lb to size huge and 1,160,00 pounds, then on the second proc of held actions to size gargauntan and 9,280,000 pounds. After falling 95' the block hits the target with an appx impact force of 1,362,128 kJ. The block is now so large (24 feet diameter or so, 30' high) that I don't think a dex save would be called for as there is no possible place for the target to move to with it's reaction that will avoid being crushed, and it can only avoid damage if it has a reaction teleport or contingency wall of force or something.
Would that work? And what is the HP damage of a 1.3 million kJ impact onto the top of a BBEG's head?
Obtain a decanter of endless water (usually pretty easy) and a portable hole (significantly harder). Fill entire portable hole with sand or whatever aggregate. Assuming sand here because it's easy, would also work with masonry, random rocks, whatever. I think the cubic volume of the hole is about 1100ft3. Sand is about 150lb/ft3. Assuming 20% porosity in the sand, lets call it 132,000 pounds of sand. Fill in the porosity with your decanter of endless water. Shouldn't take too long. Wizard or whoever now casts shape water enough times to freeze the surface area of the slurry mixture with ice. The cylinder would have a surface area of around 600 ft2. Only 20% of that surface area is actually water though based on our porosity assumption, so 120ft2. To freeze a foot thick all the pore water on the edges would take about 24 casts of shape water, or about 2.5 minutes continous casting for a single caster. Total weight of the mix now is around 145,000 pounds, give or take. You've laid the portable hole down before filling it on a sheet of some inconspicous looking material, which can be easily disguised with illusion cantrips.
Enter combat. Let's say you have a 20' ceiling wherever you are fighting, not too high, not too short, probably pretty normal. Wizard and Bard hold action for 'Enlarge Reduce' with the trigger being when the iceblock falls out the hole. A flying ally or summon or pet or whatever/ someone with a broom of flying / spider climbing rogue / whoever gets access to the roof and opens the rolled up sheet, portable hole side down, directly over the BBEG. If you were outside and had a find greater steed mount or whatever you could do this up to 100' high although I wouldn't go above that since it might take a round extra to hit him and he could get away. But let's assume that is the case, since it's the most dramatic still likely situation.
Block slides out of the hole directly overhead the enemy and begins to fall. Held actions trigger. Block increases from size large and 145,000 lb to size huge and 1,160,00 pounds, then on the second proc of held actions to size gargauntan and 9,280,000 pounds. After falling 95' the block hits the target with an appx impact force of 1,362,128 kJ. The block is now so large (24 feet diameter or so, 30' high) that I don't think a dex save would be called for as there is no possible place for the target to move to with it's reaction that will avoid being crushed, and it can only avoid damage if it has a reaction teleport or contingency wall of force or something.
Would that work? And what is the HP damage of a 1.3 million kJ impact onto the top of a BBEG's head?