Agent Orange: Operation Mirkwood

[gizmomathboy]

It ain't the worst rendition of The Hobbit

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/there-and-back-again

[Melan]

I have a hunch the story would end really badly the same way Lord of the Rings would end really badly if you outfitted the good guys with futuristic space trooper equipment. I envision the dwarves (sans Bilbo, whom Thorin had had executed for desertion and double-crossing) standing in the middle of the smoking ruins of Lake Town, charred corpses everywhere and the great dragon Smaug slain pitifully, pondering where things had gone really south. Tolkien had a few things to say about these kinds of powergaming scenarios...

(It'd make for great D&D, though. )

[ThirstyStirge]

I'd imagine a lot of stories would end quickly if the characters were armed with [insert technological anachronism here].

[Chainsaw]

I'd imagine a lot of stories would end quickly if the characters were armed with [insert technological anachronism here].

I use radium pistols, laser rifles, etc in my games. They're really just reskinned wands, rods and staves. No game breaking effects that I have seen yet. Maybe if you allowed a suitcase nuke into the game or something?

Anyway, this thread title always me think of:

[ThirstyStirge]

Having the nukes is one thing, but to be able to get to minimum safe distance before detonation is another!

Player: "I throw my nuclear grenade at the horde of onrushing orcs."
DM: "Fine. It lands in their midst, and a huge mushroom cloud rises up into the stratosphere. Both the orcs and you take 10,000,000d6 damage."
Player: "Do I get a saving throw?"
DM: *facepalm*

[thedungeondelver]

Button up everyone in the deep stone buildings in Minas Tirith -
fire tac nukes at the orcs -
PROFIT

(even better @ helms deep!)