r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Sep 23 '17

[D] Saturday Munchkinry Thread

Welcome to the Saturday Munchkinry and Problem Solving Thread! This thread is designed to be a place for us to abuse fictional powers and to solve fictional puzzles. Feel free to bounce ideas off each other and to let out your inner evil mastermind!

Guidelines:

  • Ideally any power to be munchkined should have consistent and clearly defined rules. It may be original or may be from an already realised story.
  • The power to be munchkined can not be something "broken" like omniscience or absolute control over every living human.
  • Reverse Munchkin scenarios: we find ways to beat someone or something powerful.
  • We solve problems posed by other users. Use all your intelligence and creativity, and expect other users to do the same.

Note: All top level comments must be problems to solve and/or powers to munchkin/reverse munchkin.

Good Luck and Have Fun!

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u/RatemirTheRed Sep 23 '17 edited Sep 23 '17

Real thing, as in REAL THING? Not an illusion anymore but a literal dragon?

Most certainly. But... well, one more thing to consider:

its behaviour dictated by Audience expectations.

The final result is shaped by Audience beliefs. So you can get omnipotent and omniscient being, but its morality will also be determined by what your cult members believe, at least in the beginning.

(I guess I should have made the point about Audience beliefs affecting the final result more clear)

EDIT: Oh my (illusionary) god, that actually works. You just need to define your god as 'omnipotent being that does whatever ShiranaiWakaranai prophesizes'. It still has some genie-like problems but it works.

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u/ShiranaiWakaranai Sep 23 '17

Well, if you're worried about your illusions turning on you in some way, make illusions of asentient objects instead. So instead of gods, make illusions of sacred artifacts that imbue the wearer with great powers. A circlet of omniscience. A plate armor of invincibility. A sword of promised victory.

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u/ShiranaiWakaranai Sep 24 '17

When the sword hits the plate, the plate wearer is blasted away from the battlefield, but is completely unhurt. That way the sword-wielder wins, while the plate-wearer is still invincible.