A literal caltrop
The average peasant (so all of us) has 4hp. A lucky d4 roll can instantly kill a peasant in game. An unlucky d4 roll (i.e. going off the table) can instantly kill a peasant (D&D player) irl.
I looked it up on Anydice and it would have a 31.25% chance of killing a random Commoner. Unless they get death saves, in which case it’s only a 12.5% chance.
I did not. But if you get a nat 20, it’s not a d4, is it? I assume they were accounted for in the death saves, but I just looked up the answer for that part.
It’s just Lego. (same with die and dice)
No, it’s LEGO bricks. LEGO is the brand name. If you want to be pedantic AND correct, you should be referring to them as “LEGO Brand construction bricks”, though if you’re referring to a boxed set, it’s “LEGO brand construction brick playset”.
Or you could just not be douchey about it. Either way there is no connection to dice/die.
I suppose the correct pedantic way to say it is “Lego bricks” even in the plural. But brevity in titles is a thing I strive for. Less so in the comments section. Also marbles. Marbles feel surprisingly sharp for spheres when stepped upon.
I don’t call it a Jacuzzi Hot Tub I don’t call it a Jet Ski Watercraft I don’t call it a Onesie Bodysuit. I don’t call them Popsicle Ice pops It’s not a Sharpie Permanent Marker
Just saying the brand to mean the thing is wildly common, a Lego is a Lego, and if you’re trying to find a specific type of brick is the only name more words are needed.
well sure. i’m not saying people should be calling them lego bricks. it’s fine to call them just legos or lego.
but i think you missed my point, which was: don’t get all preachy about “you have to call them lego, you can’t say legos because it’s wrong”, when it’s equally as fucking wrong to call them lego. The company tells you to call them lego bricks, so if you’re going to go around telling people that one thing is wrong, you shouldn’t be telling them to instead use something else which is also wrong, because then you’re just being a douchebag.
The equivalent here is if you were to call the markers “sharpie” as a plural, and go around confidently telling other people they’re wrong for saying “sharpies” because “look the company calls them sharpie permanent markers, so the proper plural form is obviously sharpie, just like how it works with dice/die” (which, again, there is no way in which the lego or sharpie situations are similar to the pluralization of die).
You could also just say legos, because the only reason the company cares about it is to prevent genericization of a term that makes them money.
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