It’s more an ontological question. There can be Pauli exclusion forces, but it’s not a kind of force. Compare to, for instance, centripetal force: A centripetal force is any force that causes an object to move in a circular path. What kind of force is it? It could be almost anything: Tension force from a string, normal force from a curved track, gravity, an electromagnetic force, etc. Similarly, almost any sort of force could act as a Pauli exclusion force, in any given situation.
That’s just plain silly; unless characters in D&D actually roll dice in-game?
P.S. I suppose a suitable set of d4 could work as caltrops.
I bought these dice not long ago, and believe me, they could do serious damage if shot from a slingshot, or just thrown hard enough.
Ooh, pretty.
And very satisfying to roll. Just not directly on a wooden table, because they will scratch it.
Since the alt-text isn’t coming through on the preview, here it is:
Under some circumstances, if you throw a D8 and then a D12 at an enemy, thanks to the D8’s greater pointiness you actually have to roll a D12 and D8 respectively to determine damage.
I don’t know what happened there. I got some error message that I didn’t totally understand, but then it displayed as a OneBox (I think) rather than just a plain url.
It’s nothing you did. XKCD’s page has that one comic goofed up compared to their norm. We won’t know whether that was a one-time goof or their new ongoing policy until next time.
Oof. I can understand why they might make such a change, but I selfishly hope they didn’t.
Welp, it’s semi-official. The entire history of xkcd no longer properly builds Discourse oneboxes with the hover-over text like they used to.
Now whether that’s deliberate or a bug, and if a bug whether there’s any way to report it or it’ll ever be fixed remains to be seen.
But going forward whoever posts a reference here will need to manually include the hover-over text. Darn.
Is there a way to copy-paste that text?
Well of course they don’t; that wouldn’t do anything to a kobold.
I was able to open my web page editor and find it under “title”. Some stuff to clean up in the element string but better than typing it out longhand.
Could dictate it on a phone.
Not that I know of on mobile. On a desktop, you can view source and copy from there.
I went to explainxkcd.com where they have it in easily copyable format.
Well let’s see:
The popup text is
In a bit more detail for the less technical …
On desktop Edge (and presumably Chrome, etc.) it’s trivial to capture the hover-over text. Right-click the picture and choose “Inspect” from the pop-up menu. That brings up the developer window with that element selected / highlighted. Press Ctrl-C, then paste into your post here. Then clean it up. You don’t even need to know anything about web page development or html; just delete everything that isn’t the part you want.
The Ctrl-C of that element for this episode is
<img src=“//imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sun_avoidance.png” title=“C’mon, ESA Solar Orbiter team, just give the Parker probe a LITTLE nudge at aphelion. Crash it into the sun. Fulfill the dream of Icarus. It is your destiny.” alt=“Sun Avoidance” srcset=“//imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sun_avoidance_2x.png 2x” style=“image-orientation:none”>
Even a techno-peasant (as one of our Dopers charmingly calls himself) could successfully pick the wheat from the chaff in that little sample.
I’m including the hotlink so people don’t have to go to the xkcd site to read the comic.
“I still don’t know how the police found my compound where I ran an illegal searchlight depot/covert blimp airfield/fireworks testing range.”
“Inside is a third box, labeled DO NOT OPEN UNLESS YOU ARE IN THE TIME ZONE WHERE YOU OPENED BOTH PREVIOUS BOXES.”