Dig a hole as deep as you can, bury it oriented correctly, hide the burial site as best you can. Sooner or later a landslide or earthquake or flood or something might move it, but hey, if we get really lucky, we might have bought a few million years!
New rule: If nobody is holding the sword, there’s no longer any “up”, and everything just floats about
The support Djin told me the enchantment is written on Read-Only-Magic runes. We can’t patch it in, and no one knows the rumplestiltskin recovery key, so we can’t disable the indestructability enchantment either to disintegrate it. Honestly, it’ll take a hard reboot of the material plane, but Xanathar is online right now and I’m told it’s pretty important stuff, and he has the reboot button anyway so take it up with him.
Classic Xanathar, holdin up reboots
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That’s just classic sales-wizard razzle-dazzle. It had to be programmed somehow and there’s likely a service rune on the side for debugging. Read-Only runes can be overpowered with the right equipment
… does the person have to be alive?
Asking the important questions.
In the meantime, find a way to unenchant it.
nah just leave it in the fridge next to vegetable drawer. No one will touch it
hmmm.
As DM, I’m always looking for ways of creating the potential for highly improbable but incredibly humorous TPKs.
And I think I just found a new toy.
Best part is, the Murder Hobo is going to love it. At least, until, eh, we’ll they’ll just have to find out.
Give it a quick spin and if you’re fast enough, it’ll just shake everything a bit but everyone around is going to puke.
Brace your back against a tree and just point at an enemy. They’ll fall into the sword.
That’s how you end up with a 200lb missile smashing your guts out
Or they cast featherfall and start dropping things on you
Sure. And imagine trying to swing it at something or stabbing someone with it. They’d get sucked into the sword, sorta.
But.
Interactions with the sword of down is going to be interesting.
Also, there’s shield of upside-down causes it to reverse when it successfully blocks.
Also, there’s a small chance it’ll break at a really inopportune moment.
Don’t forget the sheathes that reverse the blades polarity when they’re angry with the user
You couldn’t even hold the sword of down due to the shape.
Make it have an insanely high damage, like 50, 000 dps but since he soon learns a sword is useless if you can’t swing it. Bonus points if he gives up his primary weapon to get the up sword so when he learns it’s useless he has no weapon
DPS? Do you play your ttrpgs in real time?
I play by mail so it’s damage by strike…do you have another meaning?
DPS commonly means ‘damage per second’ mostly for RPG video games
Imagine that thing being real and you point it sideways and the whole planet’s center of gravity shifts 6700 kilometrrs under you and the whole mass off the planet starts to crumble in that direction
spin the planet!
Largest game of Spin The Bottle evah!
Wouldn’t the way he is holding it already kill a good chunk of the population? People on the other side of the planet would just fall into space along with the athmosphere loose matter and water.
I guess it must be the direction relative to the direction from the earth’s center.
That little tilt he did definitely killed a few hundred millions from the tidal waves alone unless the effect of the sword is local to an area.
It must be localized somehow. Otherwise, other planets…
How do you think earth got its rotation?
Now explain this observation with the globe earth model.
Checkmate atheist
Limited range
Pretty cool concept if you’re an outside observer
- a football kicked from outside of the range would suddenly gain horizontal speed within the range, and then exit the range at freefall speed into the goal.
- a nun walking from outside of the range would suddenly glide like a dark screaming angel of death across the field within the range, only to then end in a series of fantastic rolls after leaving it
- a man on a pogo stick would do a super massive horizontal jump across the field, and the use that potential energy to one final massive jump after leaving the range
The sword of surface normal vector
…is this a flat plane of existence? Or a globe?
Maybe it’s localized.
Sounds like a potentially great gameplay mechanic for a puzzle platformer.
Immortals Fenyx Rising has a similar game mechanic is I remember correctly.
It would be if you can find an elegant control scheme. Problem is, it has to be mapped to something, so you either can’t move or can’t use any buttons while altering it
VR game. I can feel the motion sickness already
First-person platformer with portals. It’s set on a cruise ship in a storm.
The movements consist mostly of backflips and power slides.
I’ll just hang it from the tip? And maybe the bottom too just for safety
I’d half-ass tape it to a wall and call it a day.
I appreciate the commitment to making that gif
gonna tell my kids this was arin and danny
Imagine throwing this sword at someone lmao
The sword remains stationary in the air while the entire world spins around it.
I like the idea that the orientation of the entire universe is relative to this sword
Mind blow idea.
Just cement it into the ground or something…now which way is the ground?
cool bird
