The Peasant Rail Gun Tactic Is a 400d6 Damage-Dealing Weapon of Mass Destruction

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The Peasant Rail Gun Tactic Is a 400d6 Damage-Dealing Weapon of Mass Destruction

In Dungeons & Dragons, the only limit is your imagination… and sometimes the physics-defying loopholes you manage to squeeze out of the rules. If you’ve ever spent a session calculating some new ways to attack or start something, then you know how weird and wonderful D&D can be.

But every so often, the community discovers a tactic so bizarre, so mind-bendingly broken, it feels like a prank on the laws of both D&D and reality. One of those glorious tactics is the Peasant Railgun, a theoretical “weapon” capable of dealing nearly 400d6 damage in a single turn.

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The Peasant Railgun started as a joke on a forum at the tail end of 2008, but quickly turned into a full-blown fan theory. It used D&D 5e mechanics to create a supersonic projectile launcher made entirely out of peasants and a disassembled ladder.

To make this work, players need exactly 2,280 commoners, each standing five feet apart in a straight line, meaning a line of over 2 miles. Then you need to disassemble a ladder and break it down into a ten-foot wooden pole weighing about 7 pounds. This will be your projectile.

Then, each peasant is instructed to use the Ready action to pass the pole to the person in front of them when it’s their turn. Since a round in D&D is only 6 seconds, and the pole travels 11,400 feet in that time, it’s moving at approximately 1,188 miles per hour, nearly Mach 1.5, or supersonic speed.

According to the Falling Object rules in D&D, an object deals 1d6 damage for every 10 feet fallen, capped at 20d6. However, RAW (Rules As Written) doesn’t technically limit damage caused by an object moving horizontally at insane speeds.

So, by stretching the rules and interpreting the horizontal motion like vertical falling, you can justify 400d6 damage (11,400ft / 30ft = 380, rounded up for good measure).

Yes, you read all that correctly. This isn’t a spell. This isn’t an artifact. It’s a broken ladder and a couple of thousand commoners weaponized through math and madness. In simple words, it’s ludicrous. It’s hilarious. It’s theoretical D&D physics at its absolute most chaotic.

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The Peasant Railgun isn’t just absurd, it’s game-breaking. Players love the meme, but Dungeon Masters (DM) everywhere began losing sleep over what might happen if someone actually tried to build this supersonic peasant-powered death machine in their campaign.

So, recognizing the overpowering nature of the exploit of simply misusing common things like Ready action, object interactions, and combat timing, it has been outlawed. It was the logical step, but sadly, peasants now need to get back to their regular work and not throw a stick at supersonic speeds.

In 2024, the Dungeon Master’s Guide states under “Players Exploiting the Rules ” that the

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were never meant to simulate real-world physics and certainly weren’t designed to turn farmers into a ballistics team capable of obliterating enemies in a single round.

And the Ready action is for heroic cinematic moments, not for engineering superweapons. So while the Peasant Railgun remains a legendary example of what happens when creativity collides with loose rules, it’s now officially outlawed in the latest rulebooks.

In the end, this exploit is a small reminder that the best part of the game isn’t always the battles or the loot, it’s the wild, rule-stretching schemes that only a table full of chaotic adventurers could dream up.

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