Raise your hand if you’ve had a Fighter try to use Bend Bars, Lift Gates on the equivalent of a house-sized metal…

Raise your hand if you’ve had a Fighter try to use Bend Bars, Lift Gates on the equivalent of a house-sized metal…

Raise your hand if you’ve had a Fighter try to use Bend Bars, Lift Gates on the equivalent of a house-sized metal anvil.

10 thoughts on “Raise your hand if you’ve had a Fighter try to use Bend Bars, Lift Gates on the equivalent of a house-sized metal…”

  1. I played a Fighter a year ago that used BB,LG to shatter a house-sized boulder rolling down a tunnel at the party Indiana Jones-style; does that count?

    More recently, the Fighter in the game I’m running used it to fell a huge oak tree so the party could get at the bandits who were shooting at them them from its branches.

  3. Nah, common sense is for debate team. All your fantasy world has to be grounded in is genre appropriateness. Which may vary from table to table, to spectacular effect: http://youtu.be/lUQcS4xhhqo

    Craziest thing I’ve actually seen was a ten foot high adamantine door… which the GM let the Fighter try, and then on a 10+ said that she put a scratch in it and the point of her sword broke off. We set him straight, though; he was still learning about not letting moves trigger if they don’t make sense in the fiction. Ah, memories. 😛

  4. I’d remind the player that he’s Batman, not Superman. Exceptionally strong, but not superhumanly so.

    That said, I’ll bet you Batman would find some way to use BB;LG to move that anvil. He just wouldn’t be able to straight up lift it, a la Supes.

  6. ….

    “Okay, sure.  This sounds like one of those once-in-a-lifetime, saved-the-day-and-will-be-forever-mourned deals. Bearing in mind I don’t consider myself 100% tied to the recommended consequences of a failed roll, you can make one.  Anything less than a 10+ is going to have ‘multiple ruptured spinal disks’ and ‘paralyzed from the neck down’ consequences though (although you’ll still get it done on a 7-9)”

  7. A  solid cube of Iron 10 feet on a side would weigh 491,600 lbs. – nearly 250 tons (that’s 223,000 kg, for you metric-lovin’ folk.)

    Unless your fighter also turns green when he gets angry, wish him good luck.

  8. It does naturally depend on the scale and scope of the game. If the fighter is a Herakles type, then impossible feats of physical prowess are a given (I divert the river to clean the stables, I hold up the sky while the Titan does me a favour), then lifting hundreds of tonnes of metal isn’t all that implausible for the character.

    If he’s more a Jaime Lannister type, then not so much with the impossible weightlifting.

    I’m personally more inclined to the former, in any game where reality-bending wizard player characters are a thing.

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