Re: Energy weapons

> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Mutami@???.com
> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:23:52 EDT
> To: spelljammer@???????.com
> Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] - Energy weapons
> Reply-To: spelljammer@????.com
>
> In a message dated 98-06-30 21:24:44 EDT, you write:
>
> << A Sphere of Annihillation destroys that which it hits. This could be
>  taken to mean that it would only zap the individual boards (on a wooden
>  ship) it hits, however, the desrtuction is accomplished by sucking the
>  destroyed thing into it. This would inevitably draw in more boards, so
>  I'd say that the ship is destroyed if hit, as would everything below
>  decks. People above decks are not, and if I was feeling nice, people
>  below decks would get a save vs. Death to get out in time. OTOH, if I
>  was feeling nice, I wouldn't have used a Sphere of Annihilation in the
>  first place, would I? >>
>
My take on the sphere of anhilation is that the sphere would produce a
hole holed critical with one other randomly rolled critical hit for each
round in which the sphere is in contact with the ship, or for each
seperate hit.  This prevents it from being superpowerful, but still
quite deadly.