Re: use of Mending spell for ship repair

On Thu, 1 May 1997, Grimwulf wrote:

> could someone please clarify or extrapolate on the rule from Concordance
> about using the 1st level wizard spell Mending to restore hull points?
> The way I interpret it is that it is a permanent fix to the hull.  Isn't
> this a little powerful for a first level spell?

It's been a while since I looked at that rule, but here goes.  The
Mending spell has always been a permanent fix for anything it is used
upon.  It is a simple application of the Law of Contagion (I believe
that's the law--the one that says "once together, always together".  It's
the same law that lets voodoo dolls work.  Incidentally, I read too much
Lord Darcy.)  It encourages all the broken pieces to go back where they
belong.  The only restriction is that you have to have all the pieces.
You can't use Mending to graft new hull structure into the hole.

> It seems that with this spell, a ship would never be found in bad
> repair or damaged, as long as they had a legitimate Wizard on board.

It probably wouldn't.  If you don't like that, enforce the rule that they
have to have all of the pieces for the Mending to work.  This probably
puts an upper limit of 50-60% hull point restoration for battle damage
repair, and makes repairing fire damage with Mending nearly impossible.
The spell doesn't reconstitute destroyed parts, and you can't get much
more destroyed than ash.

Hope this helps.

Rich Gant
"Miyomoto Musashi could kick Madmartigan's butt all day with only one arm."