Questions tagged [strength]
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Would a spear ever out perform a bow when wielded by an insanely powerful person?
I am writing a story where humans are battling monsters (Think orcs, goblins, dire wolves, etc).
I wanted to stay away from the typical ‘go for guns’ and try historical weaponry. I know the bow has ...
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How could interspecies wrestling fights be fair?
In real life, there are weight classes in combat sports.
In my world, there are sixteen species from the Homo genus:
Anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens);
Marine humans/Merfolk (Homo maritimus);
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What could someone who is able to add to their muscle mass accomplish?
In my world I have a type of magic user who grows stronger the more they kill animals and people.
Currently I conceptualise this as a sort of pocket dimension muscle, whenever they kill a creature, ...
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How much could/what would the average human be able to lift/carry if they were in a world where they are equivalently 1 inch tall?
So I have this semi-old story concept where people are somehow teleported via a mysterious portal(I might change it to a door) to this dimension where everything is 72 times bigger and the day/night ...
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Why wouldn't tribal chiefs use berserkers in warfare?
So in my setting, there's this magical elixir that can essentially turn people into berserkers for a short time.
They enter a state of "murder high" where they basically become hardcore ...
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What are the effects of bullets on a superhuman who keeps getting stronger?
In a story I’m writing, there’s a superhero who uses a magic spell to increase the strength of her body. This means that her body becomes more durable as well. As she increases her capacity to output ...
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Increasing molecular bond strength as Strengthening Magic
Let's say a wild mage appears (again!) and uses magic to increase the molecular bond strength of the muscles, bones and tendons of a random villager. Supposing their musculature, and other tissues, ...
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super power = strength, density and mass shifting
A person with the ability to bend and contort and twist a 5"/5"/8' steel beam. This person is strictly super. I understand the person has to have similar or greater density. In this mock-up, ...
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Could medieval technology/materials take advantage of superhuman strength for muscle-powered weaponry?
Could muscle-powered weapons be made to take advantage of superhuman strength, or Would material limitations get in the way?
Assuming:
a Viking Age (say 800-1000AD) level of technology
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