D&D Peasant Railgun Explained

The Peasant Railgun is a D&D 5e exploit using 2,280 peasants passing a dismantled ladder pole to deal massive damage.

It leverages the Ready action, the 6-second combat round, creature space rules, and Falling Object damage to output approximately 300d6 damage in one turn.

Real-world physics problems like acceleration, human handling limits, and aiming accuracy make it impractical despite being legal under RAW.

Most Dungeon Masters will likely disallow the tactic, though it can be a humorous one-shot concept for a session.