Pedant mode activated But the Pyramids are pyramids with a square base, and a tetrahedron is a special case of a pyramid with a triangular base.
The answer is obvious: the pyramids are the tips of half-buried D8s.
That makes it worse.
Yeah, if no side was facing up they’ll have to reroll.
It’s cocked
Also, in D&D 5e (2014), you just roll a single d4, then add 1 and multiply it all by 3 (or multiply by higher than 3 if upcast), instead of rolling 3 dice: https://www.sageadvice.eu/magic-missile-do-you-roll-the-same-d4-for-all-darts/
I don’t know of anyone who actually does that at home tables, because 3d4+3 is statistically less likely to give the minimum (or maximum) damage than (1d4+1)*3.
I’m sorry but this is just wrong. From PHB 2014:
You create three glowing darts of magical force. A dart deals 1d4 + 1 force damage to its target.
Each dart deals 1d4 + 1 damage and there are 3 darts, so 3d4 +3 damage.
Nope, here is RAW:
Magic Missile:
You create three glowing darts of magical force. Each dart hits a creature of your choice that you can see within range. A dart deals 1d4 + 1 force damage to its target. The darts all strike simultaneously, and you can direct them to hit one creature or several.
And “Damage Rolls,” PHB, 196:
If a spell or other effect deals damage to more than one target at the same time, roll the damage once for all of them. For example, when a wizard casts fireball or a cleric casts flame strike, the spell’s damage is rolled once for all creatures caught in the blast.
I mean, they even provided a link to sage advice where Crawford answers that specific question.
As a D5, I wonder if it would roll a lot of, or very few 1’s.
And if the answer was ‘a lot’ I wonder how many dice companies would make the peak a 5.
That’d be a weird die. Even if we’re not talking about balance issues, other than the peak, the 4 other things potentially on top would be not be faces or corners but edges.
I mean if I saw this happen I would have a hard time refuting the earth didnt revolve around ra
Well, given that Ra kind of is the sun, they wouldn’t be wrong in that assumption. Though that’s not actually what they believed. They believed that Nut was the sky above them, and Geb the unmoving ground beneath, and that they delineated creation. It wasn’t until the Greek Eratosthenes’ experiment that the idea of a round earth was proven, though it had been suggested philosophically for a couple hundred years before him. The idea of the earth actually moving was also proposed by Aristarchus near the same time as Eratosthenes’ experiment, but wouldn’t gain wide acceptance, let alone be proven, until the time of Copernicus, Brahe and Kepler.
I love the expressions in the last panel.
The shock on the camel’s face really sells it.
I’m going to tell my kids that this was “Move Along Home”.
