Divining Rods?

[Greywing65]

I thought the idea of having divining rods in order to find objects would be cool. It would also be appropriate. 

[*Lola]

 

[IamCourtney]

Would be cool but we already have "metal" detectors that can actually sense pretty much any known material...

[StyxTx]

44 minutes ago, IamCourtney said:

Would be cool but we already have "metal" detectors that can actually sense pretty much any known material...

Except the steel railroad tracks!

[AmyStone]

On 1/22/2021 at 6:05 PM, Greywing65 said:

I thought the idea of having divining rods in order to find objects would be cool. It would also be appropriate. 

 

What objects?

[Dark Spark]

Divining rods work as nothing more than 'indicator needles' to changes in your own body's muscular tension as you psychically perceive the object. In other words, your own "Spidey-Sense" is too subtle to notice without some sensitive thingy to visually amplify the changes in tension, so you use a rod or line or whatever else to show it.

 

In other words, the real detector is you, not the rod. We already have that, in the form of a radar screen in the corner that gives us white blips from time to time.

[1898]

5 hours ago, Dark Spark said:

Divining rods work as nothing more than 'indicator needles' to changes in your own body's muscular tension as you psychically perceive the object. In other words, your own "Spidey-Sense" is too subtle to notice without some sensitive thingy to visually amplify the changes in tension, so you use a rod or line or whatever else to show it.

 

In other words, the real detector is you, not the rod. We already have that, in the form of a radar screen in the corner that gives us white blips from time to time.

 

I live in the Shenandoah Valley area and it's still a thing around here.  I had a long convo with an Uber driver who is also involved with water wells. Some people swear by it but others refuse to dig in any location that's been "witched".

[Krommer]

Yeah, already the metal detector acting as pretty much the same thing.

 

So though different, would seem a bit redundant (plus, as a previous mentioned, "diviner" rods were/are basically a scam; if I recall, 

it was usually associated with finding "water." )

 

Besides, the "metal" detector already detects any object in the ground which does not just have "tracking sparkles"

without it always being "metal"; quartz, stone arrowheads etc. are merrily found with it.

Edited January 26, 2021 by Krommer

[RyuNova]

With respect, no.

Can we have less sh*tty "walk around until the controller vibrates" Roles/additions? This game needs something significant, not Heists per se but something.