Re: The Reputation Hilarity/Insanity thread New version
Well, I actually looked into it...
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The items are destroyed one way or another, I can't find an online entry for damage that would occur in this event even though I distinctly remember there being one. So the PC's haven't defeated anything and thus are entitled to no reward as far as I'm concerned (maybe the first couple of times, but after that it's old hat).
We'll ignore that a pre-industrial society would find it difficult to manufacture such an item, it would probably take a highly skilled smith at least a day per arrowhead. I'd also imagine finding materials with consistent tensile strength would be difficult.
One even has to question how the actual characters in the world came up with this concept. Even though I can make a diagram for a simple engine, doesn't mean my wizard understands enough of the concepts involved to do the same.
If you can explain those away you then need to consider what this does to the magic item market, with large numbers of BOH's and portable holes being purchased and destroyed their price is going to increase as the demand will be outpacing the supply (remember wizards need to piss away experience into creating such things).
Later on you'd also need to take into account all the dimensional rifts being created, these are typically RARE events, tears in the walls of reality. How long until the astral plane starts seeping into the material plane because the walls have been so damaged?
And at that point wouldn't someone start trying to stop you? #dimensionalpolice Or even the gods? Go ahead, shunt Pelor into another dimension and see how effective it is! You sure as shit don't have the levels to actually fight him.
Edit: I'm really glad you replied by the way. My first response was just knee-jerk, I think creating a world where BOH are super rare, or a scenario where the PC's have damaged the world so much that the gods are after them is a much more satisfying way to deal with them.
