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[Cordovan]

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[Arkat]

The Mighty Servant of Leuk-O

[Memnir]

"An airship is traveling east at 40 miles per hour, and another airship is traveling west at 80 miles per hour. Between them, a player character at maximum encumbrance is falling at 60 miles per hour. What is the player character wearing?"

A look of confusion followed shortly by the ground.

[Frogger1234]

What is the player character wearing?

Whatever they're wearing, it will probably need to be changed very soon.

[Jerevth]

Stone shoes and a smile

[Dulcimerist]

A backpack that has a huge anvil in it instead of a parachute.

[Kalindush]

An equip who bugged after update, became above his character level, leading to maximum encumberance.

[Shedrakzo]

"What is the player character wearing?"
A disjunctioned featherfall ring.

[Dragonlover333]

They are wearing not-a-str-item.

[Sir_Noob]

The GM's patience after submitting a ticket.

[Breezwyn]

He's wearing clothes that will contain a huge splat very soon

[ArtS]

They are wearing a frown as they know they are about to land in the Harbour, which is where they started from. #DoItAgain

[SSFWEl]

Technically, you're weightless while falling, so the player character would be unencumbered until reaching the ground. Then they'd be encumbered with death.

[kmoustakas]

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Cloak of feathers!

[C-Dog]

The PC is wearing on my tolerance for word problems.

[Slanesh21]

Stone Shoes and Stone-forged Gauntlets - The mafia way to go swimming.

[Saekee]

The question is, from where did they fall? The answer: teleport before being slain and after being debuffed by several spells

[SocratesBastardSon]

If he's particularly unlucky, an airship sandwich. (Critical Failure! You roll a 1!)

[nazgul748]

A very frightened expression

[iamsamoth0]

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Brick Boots

[Sunnie]

Everything!

[noran602]

They have nothing in their inventory... except for one pair of stone shoes...

[zonafer]

I hope he has his Prayer Beads on.

[daboyz]

A big smile because of his +50 tumble. ( He knew it would come in handy one day)

[Nyrvjjn]

He is naked and lunching

[ifumoveudie]

Bacon.

[UurlockYgmeov]

smile on their faces ----

[cdbd3rd]

A dapper suit, stylish top hat, and sensible shoes - while waving a seemingly non-functional broom the seller swore was a Broom of Flying.

:eek: :)

[alancarp]

Something pear-shaped.

[The_Human_Cypher]

Only his underwear?

[korgarthebarbarian2]

A whale suit.

[Fnordian]

A brightly coloured parachute.

[Llaaddyy_Kkiilleerr]

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a mask and rubber gloves if they playin it safe

[Annex]

It being Eberron, I am putting my money on a barfsplosion coloured robe, mismatched pink pantaloons, a skull belt buckle, and one spike covered, lime green shoulder pad that sticks out two feet or so. Oh. He is also wearing a pair of stupid goggles and a gold pirate hat with a gold skull. Yeah. I'll go with that.

[ddogirlswims]

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I know this is a joke question, but I didn't major in physics to not flex on a forum post. Don't @me for spelling/grammar mistakes, I just said I was a physics major not an English major.

tldr; I did a lot of dubious math, and our PC is a Halfling or Gnome wearing padded armor with 3.907lbs of other stuff.

So we start with the equation for terminal velocity:

v=sqrt(2mg/pAC)
where:
v=terminal velocity of PC
m=mass of PC (including equipment)
g=gravitational constant of Earth (sorry i don't have data on Eberron, so I'll have to use Earth constants)
p=density of air (again, for Earth)
A=projected area of PC
C=drag coefficient of PC

We're looking for m, so we can figure out what they're wearing. We know:

v=60ft/s=26.8224m/s
g=9.81m/s
p=1.225kg/m^3

Here's where it gets tricky. The world of Eberron has quite a few races of varying sizes, so they won't all have the same A&C values. But without more information, our values aren't too accurate anyways- so let's just use values for a 70kg (154.324lb) human. We'll also assume the PC has some semblance of survival instincts and is spread eagle to give them more surface area.

A=0.75m^2
C=.7

With that data, we get m=25.586kg (56.407lb). So that rules out our medium races. That leaves us with the 2 small races in DDO, Gnomes and Halflings. According to the 5e PHB (DDO is of course based on 3.5 but I am a poor college student and own only one edition), halflings and gnomes both average 40-45lbs, so we'll say 42.5lbs or 19.278kg, so our PC is carrying roughly 13.907lbs of equipment. Gnomes and Halflings both have a -2 to STR so they can have a starting ability score of 6-16 STR for an average of 11. There's some conflicting information on how to calculate encumbrance online as no one who plays PNP uses it, but on the DDO wiki there's a handy little chart. No units sadly but given that this is an American company and the books use pounds, pounds is what we're going with. This means that our Halfling/Gnome PC of 11 STR can actually carry up to 428lbs if they're overloaded!

So clearly we've overestimated their STR. But putting them at a measly 6 STR still gives them a carrying capacity of 56. Obviously they've been hit by a spell or poison that drained their STR. So one excel best-fit trendline later and we have an exponential equation that roughly (and I mean roughly) models the STR to carrying capacity of Halflings/Gnomes so we can find carrying capacity according to DDO rules without having to actually know how it calculated. A little bit of math later and that didn't work out as we're starting to get negative STR values....

Plan B it is!

Other ways of calculating encumbrance include simply multiplying your STR by 10 or 15. Then, because our PC is small, we further multiply by 0.75. If our PC is currently at a STR of 1, we get:

1*15*.75=11.25

Finally, a workable number, if a dubiously calculated one. Clearly our PC is greedy and just wouldn't stop picking up those magic items, no matter how slow they were running.

According to the wiki padded armor is 10lbs, and the next heaviest is leather armor at 15lbs.

SO, finally: our PC with their 13.907lbs of equipment must be a Gnome or Halfling wearing padded armor, with 3.907lbs of money, weaponry, and miscellaneous who is suffering from ability damage to STR.

(PS. he/him, don't pay attention to my username I made it when I was a kid)

[Aelonwy]

If he's not wearing a feather falling item, my guess is various bodily fluids that could not be contained by a failed save.

[slayson]

A cheese grater and a gold pocket watch. No you do not need to know why.

[Brandwynn]

What ever he is wearing is not going to matter in a moment. The ground is going to take care of all that ails him....

[Miranova]

An airship is traveling east at 40 miles per hour, and another airship is traveling west at 80 miles per hour. Between them, a player character at maximum encumbrance is falling at 60 miles per hour. What is the player character wearing?

A highly panicked expression while they search through their very full backpack as they desperately try to find their feather falling ring before reaching the ground.

[Paisheng]

He's wearing a smirk on his face.

[Leiton]

A Feather-Falling clicky, if they've got any sense.

[Lanadazia]

they're wearing way too many powder kegs..

[Waveclaw]

Boots of Stone. The Lord of Stone will be laughing as he falls alongside you.

[Hakushi]

He's wearing Stone Shoes.

[byzantinebob]

A look of resignation.

Not again...

[MatrimDaved]

A ring of falling.

[KatzyBaby]

Heavy armor, carrying a refrigerator filled with pie.

>^*^<

[Szling]

A feather fall clicky he used to soon.

[Grandern_Marn]

A leather thong







I know this is a joke question, but I didn't major in physics to not flex on a forum post. Don't @me for spelling/grammar mistakes, I just said I was a physics major not an English major.

tldr; I did a lot of dubious math, and our PC is a Halfling or Gnome wearing padded armor with 3.907lbs of other stuff.

So we start with the equation for terminal velocity:

v=sqrt(2mg/pAC)
where:
v=terminal velocity of PC
m=mass of PC (including equipment)
g=gravitational constant of Earth (sorry i don't have data on Eberron, so I'll have to use Earth constants)
p=density of air (again, for Earth)
A=projected area of PC
C=drag coefficient of PC

We're looking for m, so we can figure out what they're wearing. We know:

v=60ft/s=26.8224m/s
g=9.81m/s
p=1.225kg/m^3

Here's where it gets tricky. The world of Eberron has quite a few races of varying sizes, so they won't all have the same A&C values. But without more information, our values aren't too accurate anyways- so let's just use values for a 70kg (154.324lb) human. We'll also assume the PC has some semblance of survival instincts and is spread eagle to give them more surface area.

A=0.75m^2
C=.7

With that data, we get m=25.586kg (56.407lb). So that rules out our medium races. That leaves us with the 2 small races in DDO, Gnomes and Halflings. According to the 5e PHB (DDO is of course based on 3.5 but I am a poor college student and own only one edition), halflings and gnomes both average 40-45lbs, so we'll say 42.5lbs or 19.278kg, so our PC is carrying roughly 13.907lbs of equipment. Gnomes and Halflings both have a -2 to STR so they can have a starting ability score of 6-16 STR for an average of 11. There's some conflicting information on how to calculate encumbrance online as no one who plays PNP uses it, but on the DDO wiki there's a handy little chart. No units sadly but given that this is an American company and the books use pounds, pounds is what we're going with. This means that our Halfling/Gnome PC of 11 STR can actually carry up to 428lbs if they're overloaded!

So clearly we've overestimated their STR. But putting them at a measly 6 STR still gives them a carrying capacity of 56. Obviously they've been hit by a spell or poison that drained their STR. So one excel best-fit trendline later and we have an exponential equation that roughly (and I mean roughly) models the STR to carrying capacity of Halflings/Gnomes so we can find carrying capacity according to DDO rules without having to actually know how it calculated. A little bit of math later and that didn't work out as we're starting to get negative STR values....

Plan B it is!

Other ways of calculating encumbrance include simply multiplying your STR by 10 or 15. Then, because our PC is small, we further multiply by 0.75. If our PC is currently at a STR of 1, we get:

1*15*.75=11.25

Finally, a workable number, if a dubiously calculated one. Clearly our PC is greedy and just wouldn't stop picking up those magic items, no matter how slow they were running.

According to the wiki padded armor is 10lbs, and the next heaviest is leather armor at 15lbs.

SO, finally: our PC with their 13.907lbs of equipment must be a Gnome or Halfling wearing padded armor, with 3.907lbs of money, weaponry, and miscellaneous who is suffering from ability damage to STR.

(PS. he/him, don't pay attention to my username I made it when I was a kid)



Wow amazing first post!

I don't know if physics works the same in Eberron. Especially game physics?

[krzyysiek098]

Asbestos Booties from Threnal.

[LrdSlvrhnd]

Boots of Math Levitation

[nateusmaximus]

Stone Shoes (pre-update) obviously.

[MugginsMai]

Is he riding a newly formed sperm whale ala Major Kong while waving a bowl of petunias? Because the whale may break his fall.

[gravisrs]

2 Broccoli Bashers flapping them like wings.

[ForumQua]

Clearly he thought in a DEX build, STR was a dump stat,
then got hit by ray of enfeeblement and rendered helpless.
His inventory is empty, and he is a centered monk,
he is wearing only his robe of duality in his final seconds of darkness.

[John3000]

A charged load of explosives.... this is a 1-way kamikaze suicide mission. :p:p:p

[Nothingtoseehere]

As long as they aren't wearing a featherfall item i can make this work, just don't roll another natural 1. the last 3 already put me in this situation.

[dsmwhiteknight]

No idea. Can't be a feather fall item, because he is falling to fast. Max fall speed is 122 mph and weight does not matter. Cannot be a parachute since the fall speed with one is about 17 mph. Since he is not going that fast, maybe a cloak that he is desperately holding out to slow his descent?

[Vyrzain]

An airship is traveling east at 40 miles per hour, and another aiship is traveling west at 80 miles per hour.
Between them, a player character at maximum encumberance is falling at 60 miles per hour.
What is the player character wearing?



Sadly I do not know the answer to the question… but I believe it is “airship” vs. “aiship” and “encumbrance” vs. “encumberance” in the above details : )

[mbartol]

Well, he's NOT wearing a FF item.

[Darkona]

Hopefully his featherfall cloak.

[parttimewarrior]

A facemask and gloves.

[Brekian]

Stone Shoes but the thugs that put them on are going to answer to me because they were supposed to make it look like an accident.

[Lokeal_The_Flame]

He's insane for one......... breaking the fourth wall all the time he is wearing his idea of Standing Stone's mascot costume.

[nordlav]

If they are on the Wayfinder server, perhaps a helm of Metric Conversion, oh and Stone Shoes ftw........

[Tom116]

"An airship is traveling east at 40 miles per hour, and another aiship is traveling west at 80 miles per hour. Between them, a player character at maximum encumberance is falling at 60 miles per hour. What is the player character wearing?"

A pair of Legendary Stone Shoes!

[Nigel137]

Probably a wing suit because terminal velocity is about 200 km/h (120 mph).

[PurpleSerpent]

Physics time!

The character is falling at 60mph. A normal freefall is about 120mph. Feather Fall, being at a speed too low to hurt the character, must be in the region of 10mph or so.

So the character has something to slow them down, but isn't using Feather Fall. The easiest way to slow a fall down is to increase your area. This increases air resistance, and reduces the maximum speed you can reach while falling. Also, whatever you're using shouldn't weigh too much or it cancels out the benefit of the area increase.

However, this is still too fast for a parachute. So let's say the player is a Gnome or Halfling wearing a robe made for a Dragonborn.

Now I'm kind of wishing you could do that in the game.

[Suggs]

He is wearing the last thing he will ever wear.

[ShifterThePirate]

Legendary Stone Shoes for sure :rolleyes:

Since he's falling there he certainly forgot his Wisdom and Intelligence items haha

[drunkbarbarian]

A lot of great answers, but how did our adventurer get there? No matter what else he was wearing, my guess is the belt of braided beards. Nothing like a botched teleport to get you falling in the middle of nowhere.

[Mynxxx]

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The wizard is holding a gavel of great weighty matters

[Portibraf]

Royal Guard Mask

[Jiirix]

A broken Teleport Scroll and an even more broken bag of holding.

[Dark_Helmet]

What is the player wearing?

The DM's patience as he is taking too long to decide what to do.

[Bobmj]

A look of concern.

[Mornyngstar]

Hopefully the brown pants.

[Egilson]

What is he wearing?

Um. Khakhis?

[PurpleTimb]

Definitely not a ring of feather falling.

[btolson]

a terrified expression on his face!

[Kulothar]

Definitely not a featherfall item.

[Kuraci]

Do you want the full inventory of my outfit or just want to look at it after I hit the ground?

[Luchyz]

A lot of stones, dirt and dust after a short while.

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i hope he wore the brown pants...

[EnragedBears]

A failed teleport scroll in his hand

[wiliamsane]

disjuncted umbrella

[ideal_insomnia]

Nothing that has Featherfall.

[Saaluta]

Korthos Rags

Saal :)

[LucasMacKinnon]

Is it an Eberron Airship or Faerun Airship?

[Bolo_Grubb]

An airship is traveling east at 40 miles per hour, and another aiship is traveling west at 80 miles per hour. Between them, a player character at maximum encumberance is falling at 60 miles per hour. What is the player character wearing?


Everything he owns
https://i.imgur.com/XWuRZeh.jpg

[erethizon]

Stone boots

[Jango-EX]

He is trying to find his feather fall cloak

[Darstav]

Most likely it's not clean underwear.

[Damienne]

I fear we will never find out

[Dime_407]

A Lead Anchor of Planet Attraction

[Lher148]

An airship is traveling east at 40 miles per hour, and another aiship is traveling west at 80 miles per hour. Between them, a player character at maximum encumberance is falling at 60 miles per hour. What is the player character wearing?

Boots of average falling speed.

[Lagy]

the adventurer is obviously wearing some sort of cord tied between the two airships if his falling exactly 60 miles per hour downwards, while the 2 airships head towards eachother at a combined 120 miles per hour.

[ahpook]

What is the player character wearing?


A flower pot.*




* the falling character had recently been reincarnated as a bowl of petunias.

[Jedthered]

Untie-able Sharn boots of stone falling and rock swimming

[brian14]

A pear-shaped Scroll of Teleportation

[RKP]

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Legendary Stone Shoes!


https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Legendary_Stone_Shoes

[Magniee]

Doesn't matter. He'll log out and port to the hall of heroes.

[Grinthane]

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Cannith Boots and a string of prayer beads

[ChrisTOTG]

I'm a human. My max deadlift is pretty much the same as the STR 9 overburdened value; I can pick 330 pounds off the floor and the max lift for 9 strength is 338 pounds.

So let's say that it's me.

At the time, I was wearing shoes, underwear, black sweatpants (Don't wear shorts while deadlifting!!), and a black tshirt. I didn't have a girdle, and I don't find that weightlifting shoes have a significant effect on my lifts (maybe I'm not strong enough for them to make a difference)

OK, that means I was basically carrying 330 pounds in my hands. Let's see.. a 45-pound iron bar and some iron weights: 6x45, 2x5, 2x2.5. In the Real World, cold iron is just another name for iron, but I don't know of any cold iron quarterstaves. Maybe I'm being fancy and have a steel one.

So I'm holding a steel Drow Quarterstaff of the Weapon Master that weighs 4 pounds, and need another 334 pounds in the form of round iron circles. Looks like iron isn't that easy to come by on large shields, but if you're willing to use steel you can farm 22 Battered Guardian Shields for an additional 330 pounds. I'm now 4 pounds short of maximum load, and buy a single Spectre Deflector buckler for another 5 pounds. Just over the encumbrance limit, and ready to fall.


So what am I wearing?


one https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Drow_Quarterstaff_of_the_Weapon_Master
twenty-two https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Battered_Guardian_Shield
one https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Spectre_Deflector_(level_4)

...and a cosmetic version of https://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Spider-spun_Caparison cuz I like black clothes.

I'm also wearing 0.1 pounds of shoes, because my gym doesn't allow barefoot lifting.

[ThrakThor]

A broken feather fall item

[Sebastrd]

An upside-down jet pack.

[Manotasso]

Something heavy.

[csgholahayt]

The Mighty Servant of Leuk-O

Lag Lord Half Orc Ronald McDonald Trump is wearing the following: Fire Jump Suit Armor of the Flagellant Black Death, Shoes of Charming Disobedience, Ring of Stupidity, Ring Of Bile, Belt o Fat, Hair Helm of Horribleness plus Comb Over Ability +21, Big Mac Gloves, Cloak of Chaotic Crowd Control of the Mindless, Sword of Natural Impotency + Mouth Spray, Shield of the Clown, and Necklace of the Green Martian, and he has the iconic trinket: Money Clip of Incompetence.

[EhMystery]

The player character is wearing the ground. Or will be, shortly.

[crimsonknights2]

This is one of those silly moments he decided to show off and carry his horse, so technically he's wearing that.....

[Madracah]

Hello everyone :)

[Elixxer]

Nothing, they're just a gnome or halfling.

[vandabar]

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A Chicken Suit

[PhattyMcbutterpants]

They are wearing fond remembrance the VON Jump?

[minipig]

Nothing because everything is broken after the character died 50 times.

[Mastermind008]

nothing.. hes a warforged.

[Shawnculli]

A Gelatinous Cube, hoping it cushions his fall before it dissolves him?

[Damien_Vampyre]

Depends on how far apart the airships are. He could be wearing a look of relief to land on the one airship thinking he's safe (just before it plows into the other), OR an expression of sheer terror....and Concrete Shoes of course! Either way methinks he SHOULD be wearing a diaper!

[Hoplos]

Severlin's boots

[Gniewomir]

concrete shoes...

[JoyfulEagle]

What's he wearing?

If it were my character it would be a backpack with an empty space where my last Mabar restoration potion was (got to be some kind of drain on strength to be anywhere near maximum encumbrance - ever).

[MyFreePlay]

Got to be wearing a backpack full of platemail and tower shields.

[Slominator]

He's weighed down with Broccoli Juice and Bacon!

[Cordovan]

Heavy armor, carrying a refrigerator filled with pie.

>^*^<

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