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Anonymous Sun 30 Nov 2008 04:54:00 No.3084587 View View Reply Original Report

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Hey, one of my players keeps asking for a "Slingshot". I'm running 3.5. Are there stats for it? If so, what book? If not, want to help me make one?

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Anonymous Sun 30 Nov 2008 05:08:00 No.3084652 Report

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>>3084646
>rubber band?
Exactly. This is a D&D world, not modern america they're statting it up for.

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Anonymous Sun 30 Nov 2008 05:09:00 No.3084659 Report

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History

The classic form of sligshot relies upon the availability of vulcanized rubber. The most common source of rubber was from the inner tubes of tires and so it seems unlikely that they were constructed before 1888. Once invented they became an archetypal boy's toy up until shortly after World War II. These were generally self-made from a forked tree branch and "red rubber" inner tubes. (Later inner tubes had carbon-black added, which made them much less elastic. Modern inner tubes use synthetic rubber and in fact quite a few tires are now tubeless).

Commercial versions were available from early on and in 1948 Wham-O had as their first product a slingshot, but the sophisticated modern models start with the first wrist-braced slingshot—the Saunders "Wrist-Rocket", in 1954.[1]

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Anonymous Sun 30 Nov 2008 05:09:00 No.3084661 Report

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>>3084652

Because rubber bands are the only elastic material in existence, even more so in a magical world.

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Anonymous Sun 30 Nov 2008 05:12:00 No.3084672 Report

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>>3084646
>rubber
Without access to heavy industry, rubber is actually quite rare. Before natural rubber was heavily cultivated in the days following the start of the Industrial Revolution is was exceedingly rare, and anyone looking to treat the rubber to possess the elasticity needed for a real slingshot would have had a hard time doing it without a modern chemical industry behind them. Slingshots-as-common-weapons simply wasn't possible until cheap, synthetic rubbers came around, and if ANY were made before then they would have been extremely labor and materials intensive.

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Anonymous Sun 30 Nov 2008 05:12:00 No.3084675 Report

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>>3084661
Even more the only than the only? As in, there are less than zero others? Mind = blown

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