American Wizards
American Wizards
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38278963
American Wizards
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Wait untill you see my America enchanted gauntlet.
Yeah this was an actual real thing developed by the OSS during WW2, primarily for assasinations, the Sedgley Glove Gun.
One side is a plunger trigger, the other side is a one shot .38 cal gun.
... It pretty much just is a glove with a gun duct taped to it, it was used in Inglorious Basterds, and also real life, it literally is just punch someone in the head and also shoot them in the head at the same time.
Also, I have actually played in a TTRPG campaign, with this.
Not DnD, but a custom made Delta Green campaign.
Something like this works pretty easily in its standard ruleset, our setting was the 1960s, my character was an OSS->CIA analyst who'd kept this glove gun as a momento from a field agent ... Delta Green has a whole sanity mechanic that involves people and things your character holds dear, that tether them to reality... this was one of them, for my character.
EDIT:
American Magic, as explained in 18 seconds, by the TF2 Engineer.
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Oh good. I thought the plunger was on the finger side. I was thinking I would blow my own ring finger off with this thing.
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The plunger is closest to the viewer of the image, the gun barrel is further away.
So, you make a fist, and the plunger extends out from uh, on top of the ridge between your pointer and index finger's first knuckles, the gun barrel is over to the right.
Should be fine if you keep your hand as a fist.
I guess you could blow your finger off if you are wearing this, and then splay your fingers out against a wall, but with your hand straight to your your, all your fingers bent backward.
Like this, kinda.
That would uh, not be the recommened method of operation of the Glove Gun.
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I cast BANG
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I got a Potion of Resist Arrest!
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Tape over the slide will impede the action cycling. Also needs a stendo and a switch, to up the DPS of course.
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I mean yes, but also, most (all?) glocks eject to the right, so.... thats another problem here, the staff iself is gonna block case ejection, even if the action could cycle, in the depicted configuration.
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These are magic!
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Wizards. Good ol' Ralph Bakshi.
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Just watched it last weekend. Amazing style but a little boring and confusing
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That's Ralph Bakshi
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What the hell I need to watch this
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Oh yes, it's a trip. I wish I could say it's good, but well, it's interesting?
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That gets sampled in the song All Paladins Are Bastards
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Alakablam
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I cast "bust a cap".
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This reminds me:
I need to eat 4lbs of bacon, sexually assault a family member, vote against my own interests, and then get some duct tape.
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Avada Kedavra = AK 47
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iirc, pistols are pretty resistant to firing when they are dropped/receive a shock of some sort. So if slamming the staff to the ground, it might not go off. You'd rather strap a shotgun to it
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counterpoint: hipoint
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"I SHALL STAND MAH GROUND!"
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bonk - BANG!
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There is a game called "trigger witch" that is based entirely on this concept
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I CAST: SUCKING CHEST WOUND!
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[Reference] I cast Iron!
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There's an animated movie from the 70s I think called "Wizard". This post reminded me of the end of the movie, 😆
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Harry Dresden would like you to return his staff.
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Ahem it is a Blasting Rod
One of the most inherently violent of the wizard's tools, the blasting rod is used to quickly and efficiently focus one's will... if carried into a delicate situation, is as subtle as a magnum handgun.
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There was a video game that did this. A silly multiplayer focused wizard game. Net code entirely unplayably broken on modern operating systems.
One of the big warfucker franchises released a 'Vietnam' dlc in incredibly poor taste, so they did too. Spells like 'call airstrike' and a staff thats just a machine gun.
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He gotta have something in case he runs out of mana
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Let’s get a GTA/Harry Potter crossover.
If Middle Earth had guns, Gandalf definitely would have carried an AK instead of a stick.
Tolkein fought in WW1, it's no wonder he romanticized a time when wars were fought with swords. His war was a meat grinder over literal inches. Just waved of bullets and bombs that killed indiscriminately.
So he built a world where combat was about skill and one highly trained and motivated person could beat 100 enemies face to face
The people in WW1 with the highest kill counts were the ones that spent 12 hours a day loading shells into artillery miles from the fighting.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
i love how the battle scenes in the books are really short compared to the scenes where the hobbits are smoking, eating and enjoying life. i think tolkien romanticized more the simple life, peace and quiet and good tilled earth.