Re: Drow Question

>From: "Rian A. McMurtry" <Whalejudge@???.com>
>Reply-To: Discussion list for the Spelljammer campaign setting
><SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com>
>To: SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com
>Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] Drow Question
>Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:52:46 EST
>
>In a message dated 11/8/1 3:17:22 AM, j.w.van.den.heuvel@???????.com
>writes:
>
><< Teleporting a 100 ton vessel some miles up into space is definately a
>HUUUUUUUGE feat.
>I say digging a vertical shaft with desintegration spells and make it
>zigzagging so no direct sunlight is able to penetrate into the drow city.
>  >>
>
>They don't have to teleport into space, although teleportation magic
>doesn't
>appear to be limited in such a fashion (since you can teleport whereever
>inside a crystal sphere).  What I had in mind was a pad on the ground,
>perhaps in a cavern, only working on a command word.

One question though, how would the ships get back into the hanger?  Wouldn't
they need to have teleportation capabilities of their own?  The only thing I
can think of is to have the other teleport pad be on the surface or in space
(the dark side of the moon, maybe), but then you have a similar problem as
the tunnel, destroy the outside pad and the ships are trapped.


The problem with shafts
>is that they provide direct access to a drow city--IMO, the drow are too
>paranoid for that.  They would easily see the prospect of hostile
>spelljammers flying down the shaft, even if heavily defended and cloaked in
>illusion.
>Another possibility is that the vast majority of drow have no intention of
>allowing ANY spelljamming ships into their subterranean cities--including
>(perhaps especially!) their own.  Contact and trade would be maintained
>through caravan contact points, interplanar gates, and groundling
>stronghold-to-space stronghold teleportation arches.

I agree.

Sebastian

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