So the Iliad by Homer popularized the saying "Bites the dust" for dying. It makes way more sense when you realize those old battlefields in Greece, Anatolia and the middle East were generally dusty plains. It's way more gruesome than the Queen song or modern usage makes it sound. If someone were mortally wounded in a battle they'd fall in the dirt coughing and sputtering and choking on the dust and dirt that had been kicked up by the battle. It's as much about gnashing their teeth in pain with the grit of dust in their mouths as they bled out.
Banana trees "walk". Their shallow root system will actually pull the trunk from their original position. They can move several feet over Their lifetime.
Banana trees "walk". Their shallow root system will actually pull the trunk from their original position. They can move several feet over Their lifetime.
Banana trees "walk". Their shallow root system will actually pull the trunk from their original position. They can move several feet over Their lifetime.
Cool. I'd like to see a banana Ent.
Sounds like a tasty ice cream treat they'd whip up at Dairy Queen!
This spiky, walking worm-like creature that appears as if it was ripped right from the Monster Manual is known as Hallucigenia, which walked the Earth during the Cambrian era, roughly 500 million years ago.
This spiky, walking worm-like creature that appears as if it was ripped right from the Monster Manual is known as Hallucigenia, which walked the Earth during the Cambrian era, roughly 500 million years ago.
Originally the scientists that first studied hallucigenia thought it walked on the spikes and had it upside down and back to front.
I just discovered something fascinating about ropers (the rocky monsters that pretend to be stalagmites and attack you with tentacles and bites if you get too close). In 5th edition, ropers have 16 Wisdom! They are VERY wise. For comparison, here are some other creatures in 5E with a similar Wisdom score:
Sahuagin Priestesses: 14 Wisdom
Githzerai Monks: 14 Wisdom
Flumphs ("beings of great intelligence and wisdom"): 14 Wisdom
Druids (generic NPC stat block): 15 Wisdom
Lizardfolk Shamans: 15 Wisdom
Ancient Silver Dragons: 15 Wisdom
Unicorns: 17 Wisdom
Drow Priestesses of Lolth: 17 Wisdom
So ropers are wiser than flumphs, but less wise than drow priestesses of Lolth.
Morale of the story: eat enough banana splits and they will eventually split your atoms.
During the eighties, in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea you didn't prescribe potassium supplements when you prescribed diuretics (meds that make you pee loads) for heart failure - they ate so many bananas and sweet potatoes their potassium was always on the high side.
Given three lines in the plane (no two parallel), there are four different circles tangent to each of the three lines. The product of the radii of those circles is the square of the area of the triangle formed by the lines.
I've used a lot of different formulas for the area of a triangle in the course of solving math problems. This ... isn't one of them.
Morale of the story: eat enough banana splits and they will eventually split your atoms.
During the eighties, in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea you didn't prescribe potassium supplements when you prescribed diuretics (meds that make you pee loads) for heart failure - they ate so many bananas and sweet potatoes their potassium was always on the high side.
I have absolutely no idea if this is still true.
Interesting. I take spironolactone, a sodium-specific diuretic, so potassium supplements or too much potassium-rich food could actually poison me. I drink pickle juice every day to keep my sodium up.
Ok, there is some historical context to the cat I guess. He is the last of a clowder (useless fact #2. Clowder means group of cats) that lived on Canada's Parliament Hill. The colony of stray cats dates back to 1924 when they were used to kill mice and rats in the central building during the day, but kicked out at night. That was until 1955 when they were replaced with chemical pest controls instead, and were just left out in the cold on the Hill.
From then till 2013, the cats lived on the Hill and were taken care of by volunteers starting with groundskeepers and cleaning ladies bringing them food. In the 80s, one of the volunteers built them a structure to live in during the cold months and a second structure was built in the late 90s. Purina donated cat food and a local vet clinic gave free medical care. It became a small tourist attraction with about 300 visitors a day.
In 2003, there were about 30 cats when someone had the bright idea to spay and neuter them all. Their numbers dwindled to 4 and those 4 were adopted, and the clowder was no more in January of 2013. Their structures demolished once the last 4 were gone. Coal, the string-eating, 12-year-old black cat, is the last remaining piece of that Canadian history. Once he dies, there will probably be one last news story about the cats and then they will be forgotten in history.
@deltago; When I read that headline my first thought was how funny it is that a cat surviving a visit to the vet is newsworthy in Canada. After reading your post it seems the cat itself is the newsworthy bit.
The Don River in Toronto was once so polluted that, when it was learned that the train carrying Princess Margaret would be stopping along its banks, officials were sent into a state of panic. Eventually, upon realizing that they could not fix the pollution in time, officials arranged for chlorine and perfume to be dumped into the river upstream. This would be timed to occur exactly when it was needed. In the end it worked and the Princess was left unaware of just how bad the stench of the river normally was.
In 3.5E, the tarrasque has a speed of just 20 feet per round. For comparison, that's a speed of about 1 meter per second or 2.3 miles per hour - around equal to a normal person's walking speed. This also means that the tarrasque, which is 70 feet long in 3.5E, travels less than 1/20th of its own body length per second.
The tarrasque does, however, have the ability to rush - move 150 feet on one round each minute. This still means it's moving at less than half its own body length per second, which isn't super fast.
In 3.5E, the tarrasque's challenge rating is only 20. That's lower than the challenge rating of an old gold dragon (not even an ancient or great wyrm one, just an old one).
In 5E, the tarrasque has a stat total of 96. You might've rolled a BG character at some point with a higher stat total than the 5E tarrasque.
In the recent 5E game Solasta, Crown of the Magister, you encounter armor made of tarrasque leather. And it's not even that good.
Really lame. I'd expect tarrasque leather armor to be super-awesome armor that reflects spells cast at you, not this...
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Or maybe they build your resistance? Eat bananas, survive the holocaust!
Cool. I'd like to see a banana Ent.
Sounds like a tasty ice cream treat they'd whip up at Dairy Queen!
Originally the scientists that first studied hallucigenia thought it walked on the spikes and had it upside down and back to front.
Sahuagin Priestesses: 14 Wisdom
Githzerai Monks: 14 Wisdom
Flumphs ("beings of great intelligence and wisdom"): 14 Wisdom
Druids (generic NPC stat block): 15 Wisdom
Lizardfolk Shamans: 15 Wisdom
Ancient Silver Dragons: 15 Wisdom
Unicorns: 17 Wisdom
Drow Priestesses of Lolth: 17 Wisdom
So ropers are wiser than flumphs, but less wise than drow priestesses of Lolth.
During the eighties, in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea you didn't prescribe potassium supplements when you prescribed diuretics (meds that make you pee loads) for heart failure - they ate so many bananas and sweet potatoes their potassium was always on the high side.
I have absolutely no idea if this is still true.
Given three lines in the plane (no two parallel), there are four different circles tangent to each of the three lines. The product of the radii of those circles is the square of the area of the triangle formed by the lines.
I've used a lot of different formulas for the area of a triangle in the course of solving math problems. This ... isn't one of them.
Cat eats string and survives visit to the vet.
Ok, there is some historical context to the cat I guess. He is the last of a clowder (useless fact #2. Clowder means group of cats) that lived on Canada's Parliament Hill. The colony of stray cats dates back to 1924 when they were used to kill mice and rats in the central building during the day, but kicked out at night. That was until 1955 when they were replaced with chemical pest controls instead, and were just left out in the cold on the Hill.
From then till 2013, the cats lived on the Hill and were taken care of by volunteers starting with groundskeepers and cleaning ladies bringing them food. In the 80s, one of the volunteers built them a structure to live in during the cold months and a second structure was built in the late 90s. Purina donated cat food and a local vet clinic gave free medical care. It became a small tourist attraction with about 300 visitors a day.
In 2003, there were about 30 cats when someone had the bright idea to spay and neuter them all. Their numbers dwindled to 4 and those 4 were adopted, and the clowder was no more in January of 2013. Their structures demolished once the last 4 were gone. Coal, the string-eating, 12-year-old black cat, is the last remaining piece of that Canadian history. Once he dies, there will probably be one last news story about the cats and then they will be forgotten in history.
The tarrasque does, however, have the ability to rush - move 150 feet on one round each minute. This still means it's moving at less than half its own body length per second, which isn't super fast.
In 3.5E, the tarrasque's challenge rating is only 20. That's lower than the challenge rating of an old gold dragon (not even an ancient or great wyrm one, just an old one).
In 5E, the tarrasque has a stat total of 96. You might've rolled a BG character at some point with a higher stat total than the 5E tarrasque.
In the recent 5E game Solasta, Crown of the Magister, you encounter armor made of tarrasque leather. And it's not even that good.
Really lame. I'd expect tarrasque leather armor to be super-awesome armor that reflects spells cast at you, not this...
Much better than simply saying they can't do it.
I really don't know why you need it.) Whatever.