• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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    Assuming a level 20 druid, you’d have 32 slots 1 or above, 2 gallons per caster level so 40 gallons per cast, that’s 1,280 gallons per day or however fast you can regain spells. A bit shy of half a million gallons in a year. A particularly long-lived elf could destroy 280 million gallons before keeling over.

    Now it depends how big the world you’re on is, but if it’s earth-like, the smallest ocean on earth is… 4.9 quintillion gallons.

    4,900,000,000,000,000,000

    So while you wouldn’t make a dent, a character with an irrational war against the ocean is hilarious and you should do it anyway.

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      So, the problem isn’t how much water but how much time?

      Become lich, be immortal, problem solved.

      Now it’s a race between you and the heat death of the universe or pissing off some God of the Sea for fucking up their backyard.

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      wait wait wait

      could i just kinda put a stick on the mouth of a bag of holding and throw it in the ocean? (the stick is for keeping it open)

      then i could throw a bunch of those in the ocean, and it’ll at least help destroy it.

      if this works like i think it does, i’ll get something that lets me craft bags of holding, and i’ll just spend the rest of every day (after casting destroy water) crafting bags of holding to throw into the ocean

      also, don’t worry about age. i am going to become a lich like someone suggested, so that i can just stay there, destroying the ocean very, very slowly, forever.

      and please correct me if anything i said isn’t possible!

      • 𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓼@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        22 hours ago

        cast Gate on the bottom of the ocean

        20ft wide portal to whatever other plane you want to dump the ocean in

        at the bottom of the mariana trench you’d get some 200,000,000 gallons per minute through that sucker

        it’ll still take more than 3 million years (per very naive, optimistic napkin math) to drain all the oceans but you can probably find other people to join your mad ocean destruction cult over that time and get things going in parallel

        the real question is: where are you putting all this water

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          oh i only hate the <whatever the common planet in D&D is>'s ocean, so i can just throw the water anywhere. i guess it’d be funny to throw it somewhere dry, though. so soke desert plane or whatever

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        For the amount of money you’d waste throwing bags into the ocean, you’d probably be better off hiring people to cast destroy water.

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      Maybe the duid can team up with a lvl 20 wizard that will open a Gate with his 9 lvl spell slot from the bottom of the ocean.
      Dunno how to do the math, but a 20 feet diameter sink in the ocean opened in the sky of another plan for one minute may be faster (in spell slot economy) than lvl 9 destroy water.