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Computer science terms that sound like fantasy RPG abilities
I’ll start:
- Firewall
- Virtual Memory
- Single source of truth
- Lossless Compression (this one sounds really powerful for some reason)
Your turn
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malloc
Tell me that isn’t the name of a demon.
Ethernet
spawn daemon
kill all children
I see you play Star Wars ttrpg
The Bard I played with last campaign did that by casting gravity well next to the exterior wall of an orphanage. He succeeded with your spell.
Force Merge
Disconnect Peripheral: Removes someone’s limb.
Critical Vulnerability: Increases critical hit rate.
Memory buffer: Allows you yo remember things better.
Boot Loop - ties someone’s shoelaces together
I could actually see this being a cantrip for a bard or arcane trickster. It’s almost innocent in its mischief but would be a worthwhile hindrance on the battlefield.
For shoes without laces and creatures without shoes it could simply loop magical string around them.
Prob just a cut to movement with a dex save at the start of every move (like once per turn but they can avoid it by choosing not to move). Doesn’t need to be a high save, but if they fail, they trip.
Since it’s a cantrip they can remove the string with an action, and they last a number of turns equal to caster level.
I’d also love to see a DM be creative with how much it effects certain creatures. Centipede? Probably a little pissed but not too hindered by stumbling on one pair of legs. 1 legged Pete? Completely unaffected as he jumps at you with his 1 leg.
Boot Loops, when you can’t afford Fruit Loops.
Reroot tree: Tree digs itself out of the ground, walks to another location and takes root, as if it’s always been there.
Heap sort: More advanced technique for which Reroot tree is a prerequisite for some reason. Arranges assortments of things into neat piles with only one kind of object per pile. Very useful when looking for things in treasure chambers.
“I cast heap sort on the owlbear.”
“…”
“The owlbear is sorted into neat piles, the first containing hair/nails/claws/beaks, the second feathers, the third bone, the fourth meat, the fifth blood…”
LUT - A table appears 10ft above your target and falls on it dealing 1d6 bludgeoning.
“LOOK! UP! TABLE!”
By pure coincidence it’s also the sounds it makes when dropping on you
Beautiful! It’s also a bonus action reaction cantrip.
- rowhammer
- rainbow table
- global interpreter lock
- race condition (atrocity?)
- core dump
rainbow table
You win the thread. That is straight up out the old school Player’s Handbook.
Power word: Infinite Recursion
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Race condition
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Physical Layer
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Fast Fourier Transform
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COBOL
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Penetration testing
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Tiger Team
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Zombie process
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Alice, Bob and Carol (some NPCs)
A horde of COBOLs run out screaming, wielding short swords and round shields.
Everyone remembers their first monster, the COBOL!
Race condition is ranger ability after level 3, 5, 9, and 11.
The druid version is “Create Shortcut”.
Fortran!
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- Master / Slave
- Gatekeeper
- Anti virus
- Force push
- Bug
- Forever loop
- Break condition
- Real time operating system
- Blockchain
- Agility measurement index (not really an ability, but sounds like it could be art of an RPG mechanic)
- Ring zero
- Bootkit/Rootkit
- Attacker in the middle
- Intercepting proxy
- Daemon
Python runtime. Time for you to run from these pythons bitch.
BSOD. Pretty self-explanatory
Agile development. Raises Dex everytime a new enemy enters vision.
Agile development would be a killer monk ability
