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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

How does conservation of mass work with wild shape? Is that hummingbird 180 pounds? If so, how does it fly?

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 71 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

There's no conservation of mass. Magic turned them into a bird. Any energy missing from the system went into the magic.

D&D ain't no Brandon Sanderson crunchy magic shit. It's Tolkien "this shit happened cause I magically said so" shit

[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It goes into the magic and comes back when the spell is over. It's giving magic an interest free loan. Why does it cost spell slots to use this again?

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 13 points 10 months ago

The are two possible answers, depending on the angle you wish to take:

  1. For the same reason it costs energy to lift something onto a shelf then lower it back down, despite energy being conserved in the lifting and lowering of the object and its final energy state being unchanged. You need to impart external energy to cause change within a system.

  2. It's a game and some abilities need to cost resources for balance reasons.

[–] Apollo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago
[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Mystery solved!

[–] psud@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

There's no conservation of mass, you can wildshape into an elephant, load up with goods to your carrying capacity, then change to a raven and fly back, then back to the elephant to unload.