There Is No Kill Like Overkill/Tabletop Games: Difference between revisions

** There was a homebrewed Ultima spell (from the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games) 3.5 D&D. It did about all of those things and it required all of your spell slots to memorize it for the duration, had a bit of a time limit before it started damaging even more wisdom, and made you pass full out for like maybe half a month after use. Granted you could probably kill ''anything'' with it, barring maybe that one virtually-unkillable monster

** And to go one better, a combination of metamagic when applied to the Locate City spell can do the same as (or better than) Apocalypse from the Sky. Locate City has a radius of ten miles per caster level. Apply a Snowcasting feat to add the Cold subtype, Flash Frost to make it deal 2 damage to everybody within the radius when you cast it, Energy Substitution to switch the damage to electric, Born of Three Thunders to allow a reflex save, and then Explosive Spell to force a reflex save or be blasted out of the area and taking 1d6 damage per ten feet traveled (which is, let us not forget, ten miles per caster level). Depending on DM adjudication, if this also applies to buildings, trees and other things within the radius of the spell, then you might just have a world-ender on your hands by environmental extinction. You may also need a feat from another sourcebook that turns a circle effect into a sphere. At 18th level, you can add Arcane Thesis, Widen Spell and Enlarge Spell to the combination, which should increase the area to a ''400-mile radius''. For comparison, ''England'' is only about 390 miles long. Kaboom indeed, and all before 20th level. With no negative effects beyond the book that the DM will probably be throwing at your skull.

* ''[[Shadowrun]]'' has the original [[Chunky Salsa Rule]] for a reason. And full-auto weapons.

* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' lives off this. A bolt pistol shooting high-caliber, rocked-assisted AP-HE shells that would fall under [[Chunky Salsa Rule]] in most other settings, but it's just a sidearm of Human elite troops and officers. Then [[Amazon Brigade|battle nuns]] in [[Powered Armor]] with [[Jet Pack]]s who usually [[Guns Akimbo|dual wield]] either those or flamethrower pistols. Other species have pistols that fire armor-slicing shurikens or bugs that ''eat their way through your body to your brain in the brief few seconds that make up their lives''. Bigger weapons tend to be more impressive. The most mediocre of common weapons is lasgun of the Imperial Guard that hits as hard as assault rifle in normal mode (or as shotgun slug with assault rifle range in overloaded, but this is actually not seen in tabletop, only novels and [[Only War|RPG]]).