for anyone that doesn't know, this was a convoluted build in 3.5 that allowed kobolds to remove anything that damaged them. Since they suffer from sunlight sensitivity, they chose to remove the sun.
For context: In 3.5e dnd, there was a class called Warblade. One spell accessible to the warblade is "Iron Heart Surge", which lets you select one spell, effect, or condition that is affecting you and immediately end the effect. Since it ends the effect rather than making you no longer affected by it, it would essentially allow you to "end" the sun if you are sensitive to sunlight
@@mattfantastic9969 Unless it's a storm cloud it's only goign to somewhat reduce light. A total eclipse is more absolute. Plus it's just way more dramatic.
That’s not wish. Fun fact: in earlier editions kobolds don’t like the sun and get disadvantages on things if themselves or their target are in the sun. Some feat or ability gives the user the ability to “end the effect.” In this case the effect in question is the sun.
I think technically the official dnd world has a firmament and/or the sun is part of another plane, so theoretically the 8 minutes thing wouldn't apply. But imagining he already blew it up and spent 8 minutes running around looking for someone to impress is hilarious
After the few moments, you realise your still very much alive. Confused, you look back down at the kobold, who is now running away with all of your valuables
tldr: Tabletop rules arguments get really REALLY stupid sometimes. This is from a response to a similar post on twitter, I couldn't remember the specifics. So thanks to @Xenothulhu "If anyone’s wondering this is a reference to an old argument from 3.5. There was an ability that said that if you were under a negative condition (like poisoning or a spell) you could use the ability and make a saving throw and if you succeeded you would end the effect. Note that it says “end the effect” and not “no longer be under the effect”. So if a wizard cast a mass suggestion spell and you used this by a strict reading you would cancel the entire spell and free everyone else as well. Probably not the intent but that’s the wording. Kobold’s have sunlight sensitivity. So when they are exposed to sunlight they are under a negative condition and can use the ability to end the effect. Except in this case “the effect” is the sun itself. So they end the sun. Obviously this wasn’t a thing seriously suggested and was more of a way to show how dumb things became when you considered RAW only."
But I swear it wasn't me. I watched that cage 24/7.* I've been not sleeping at all staring at a cage that is opened.And I hate it* You might have gotten invisibility.
Sir,.........that's my fault .......i mean he seemed harmless, and he's just so adorable, and he .....he just needs to run around a little to burn off that energy i mean i didn't know he could do that
Because of how light works and how it takes about 8 minutes for light from the sun to travel from there to earth, he did that 8 minutes ago and decided to do that silly “little” prank on them
Or he concentrated for that amount of time, and that adventurer actually waited patiently. Either to see what the kobold could do, or to see them pass out from straining too hard, we won't know, their worlds fucking *G O N E* That, or the kobold learned illusion magic.
That distraction was just enough for you to fail a save on minor illusion and you just pass out from fear. The kobold then robs you and runs away laughing
The DM boutta make you gather the entire friend group around a campfire. Once you’ve gathered everyone, the DM will TPK you and move onto the next campaign.
And if you're gonna go that far, before that 8 minutes passed for validation of said Kobolds' god-like powers - everyone would be dead before they got to see the sun explode to realize it was exploding....kinda anticlimactic actually...
I imagine that’s not even what the kobold was trying to do, he was just trying to show something innocent, then the sun just happened to explode at that moment
Hmm, my wisdom save suggests this is a spell that causes me to hallucinate such a thing. I ignore that and besides my Sun God would have protected it and itself from a mere Kobold.
Context: In 3.5 edition, you could roll a saving throw against negative effects, or as the game phrased it, "end the effect", meaning that according to the edition's own wording, you could cancel out stuff like aoe spells with it Combine that with kobolds having a penalty effect while in sunlight.. they should be able to have such a saving throw to end their penalty effect, which in this case would be.. the sun itself
First dnd session me and my party came across a kobold den. Long story short we got a kobold friend. He threw potions, (missed 90%), and whacked with his scorpion on a stick. He died in his fourth encounter. Frost Wolves. I took his scorpion stick and we kept goin. Kobold name was Cinder.
It takes approximately 8 minutes for sunlight to hit Earth's surface. That means that the kobold has been concentrating on, or cast, that spell at least 7 and a half minutes before running up to the kid to let them know who's responsible for ending their and everyone else's lives.
You roll a 19. You dispels all illusions in your area but nothing changes. The only thing that happens is that you realize that this is not a normal Kobold, but a 3.5 Warblade Kobold. You and all life are about to die.
But if the Kobold wants to show you what it can do, it means rhat he has already done so, or it wouldn't want to show it. So it must have already exploded the sun ateast once.
He was the child of prophecy, they had tested every kobold to see if they could use this ability with other sources, and then it started its journey to find the main character and proceed to show them the glorious potential of magic 😂😂
Idk why. BUT THIS. THIS! Broke me! I pulled a muscle in my back, scared my dog AND laughed so long and loudly it genuinely made my girlfriend AND my roommates upset. Watched it again 😂😂😂😂😂😂 it's still funny. This shit tickles me to no end wtf I can't stop.
I know that sometimes stuff I write is interpreted as an angry rant. Especially in the dnd community. Please understand that this is just me theorizing about physics, math, and magic. There are no emotions in this comment. All it takes is to make it seem like a piece of glass with just the right shape is in front of their eyes. But I guess illusion magic messes with how a brain interprets sensory input, and doesn't actually bend any light, so the "piece of glass" idea would probably not work. Maybe if there is a spell that creates a slowing field, and the field shape can be modified and bound to a point in space between each of someone's eyes and the sun, with a direction that is based on gravity. Still, a mirror or other reflective surface would instantly break such an illusion, and I don't see a way around having to make the shape of the slowing field adapt to the way the person is positioned. Afterall, your eyes are not the only part of your body that can detect sunlight. Additionally, even if the illusion is perfect, one would still be able to figure out that the sun isn't gone, because if it was, the planet would slowly get colder by radiating heat into space in the form of infrared light. But magic breaks the laws of thermodynamics. So to make perfect illusion of the sun being blocked out, you would have to cast an illusion on every creature, and absorb more energy than hits the earth constantly. So basically, that just circles back to just blocking out the sun.
Reading the explanations, I am just going to headcannon an elaborate plan involving illusions or charms to steal the adventurer's belongings. Like one pretending to do something, one using the magic, and another going through pockets.
This kobold is an interdemensional scourge that has destroyed dozens of solar systems and will already be destroying another adjacent one by the time that planet is vaporized.
What a coincidence! The Kobold was just going to use create water and offer the adventurer a drink at the same time the sun randomly exploded. What are the odds!
Yeah, he got me with that one too. I blacked out from the shock and when I came to, the little bugger had ran off with my packed lunch, bedroll and one of my dang boots! These kobold illusionists are getting trickier with every day that passes. >:(
What is the most impressive thing is that the sun exploding so fast means he is also increasing the explosion to beyond the speed of light if it's reaching Earth in a few seconds not 8 minutes.
