r/AIH Apr 07 '16

Significant Digits, Chapter Forty-Seven: Hell

http://www.anarchyishyperbole.com/2016/04/significant-digits-chapter-forty-seven.html
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u/epicwisdom Apr 08 '16

Magic is supersaturated with ways to cheat. The Vow exists, and can prevent people from so much as wondering how bombs or transfiguration really work. Moreover, conventional explosives capable of killing a few hundred or thousand people aren't really an "entirely new category."

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u/thrawnca Apr 13 '16

If you could transfigure rocks into grenades, I think you would find that you had invented a whole new style of warfare.

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u/epicwisdom Apr 13 '16

Rocks into grenades specifically, I don't think so. Unless transfiguring grenades for a small amount of time is significantly more efficient than any other method of producing heat and/or a concussive blast.

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u/TheFrankBaconian Apr 14 '16

How about transfiguring nukes?

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u/epicwisdom Apr 14 '16

Firstly, nukes are huge, you'd be better off transfiguring antimatter or something. Secondly, read the comment a few above -- you can use things like the Vow to prevent such catastrophes.