What would happen if a message was broadcast on network TV written in explosive runes...

What would happen if a message was broadcast on network TV written in explosive runes? What if the Google doodle was explosive runes?

ITT: Shadowrun General

So you're saying nothing good?

what if god was one of us

Most likely: Nothing. No material components were used in recreating the runes on TV or on your computer.

Best case: The original runes recorded explode. Nothing happens to your TV or monitor.

Try harder.

What happens if you make explosive runes in a word document or some shit? Doesn't have to be written on a physical surface, retard

>Doesn't have to be written on a physical surface
Yes it does you fucking gibbon. Read the spell more than not at all.

its curious how all spells should be taken as written when its beneficial to do so but the minute it starts to work against you it suddenly has to be "played by the spirit not the letter "

1. What the fuck are you even talking about?
2. That is to the letter you gibbering baboon. 3.5 and Pathfinder both explicitly say that the runes need to be on a "book, map, scroll, or similar object bearing written information."

Yeah, basically what's happening is that your drawing runes with mana and placing them on a specific object, like placing a highly volatile transparent sticker made of juju.

If the object is then broadcast, and the runes read, the runes upon the object explode.

So unfortunately you can't just make them digitally, as you have to physically draw the runes with a finger upon the object. So even if you did it with a drawing program, it would be your monitor or your hard drive which would blow up and not the people halfway across the world who read your explosive shitpost.

>draw explosive runes in paint
>backdoor into network of target company office
>issue print request to every printer in the building at once
>???
>profit

>"book, map, scroll, or similar object bearing written information."
Can printing presses mass produce these?

People not taking the 'spirit' and instead being fucking smart arses about collaborative storytelling is how we got D&D in the first place.

No. It is a spell that requires a spellcaster literally drawing the runes upon a surface, these magic infused runes are what explodes. You can't copy these magical runes as they are the spell effect. Basically, making a photocopy of a sticker is not the same as having the sticker.

Your not exploding the information, your applying an explosive sticker on top of the information on an object.

Not how this works.

I'd say yes, but you'd need to make a specially-enchanted printing press for it. You couldn't just order any old printer to print explosive runes. And your explosive-printer wouldn't be able to print anything except explosive runes.

Nothing. It's not that you draw special runes that are somehow explosive, it's that you charge whatever letters you're writing with magic that makes them explosive.

They're still the same letters that you normally use while writing. You can write the exact same thing twice and only one will be explosive if you only cast the spell on one of them.

It's up to your DM if you can transmit the magic over something like the internet, I'd probably say it takes a different but similar spell, probably a level higher (and if you want it to go off on everyone who reads that post that would be some sort of epic plot magic that takes a lifetime to get ready for).

>Basically, making a photocopy of a sticker is not the same as having the sticker.
What if you photocopy it onto sticker paper?

Not that guy, but presumably you'd need a magic photocopier to duplicate the spell like that, like the magic printing press the other guy was talking about.

That's called casting an epic version of the spell. And as an metaphor, these things always break apart once you take the metaphor literally.

Again, Material fucking Components dipshit. The ink and parchment/paper are part of the spell.

Only works if the printers are both awakened and have enough caster class levels to cast the spell.

>Only works if the printers are both awakened and have enough caster class levels to cast the spell.
Yes, and?
We full-on technomagic now, user.

Unfortunately the 'spirit' is subjective and your interpretation might be different to mine. Worse, you might be That Guy, with a lolsorandumb or metagaming interpretation, and that would not be helpful.

Figure out a way to make the ink cartridges be made out of the spell components? Kind of similar how in DmC the witch girl just has a spray can and a stensil to draw magic circles.