Re: Enspelled items

I remember an adventure called Thiondar's legacy which had air cars that
were powered by trapped air elementals! Bad news if you crashed;O)
 Also Enchanted Weapon 1st Ed rules fourth level MU spell.
 Ruedas
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From: "Diane Morrison" <Sable@??????-????.com>
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Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] Enspelled items


> --- Michael Sandy <wuggadad@??????.com> wrote:
> >What kinds of enspelled items are there out there?
> >An enspelled item is something that is less potent
> >and less permanent than a magic item.  Sometimes it
> >is simply some natural substance with magical properties
> >that can be exploited.  Sometimes it is a simple spell or
> >ritual that lasts for a long time.
> >
> >Fire trap and Glyph of Warding arrows for example.  (and
> >special carrying cases that prevent them from being
> >accidentally touched and discharged)
> >
> The elves have many enspelled arrows, and these could also be adapted to
ballistae and other "arrow styled" things, perhaps even javelins or short
spears; the Complete Elves' Handbook (2E) gives some ideas, but they're
transferable to 3E.  There's a lot of enspelled item ideas in the Arcane
Age: Cormanthyr suppliments too.
> >
> >
> >The material from which mana sails are made would be an
> >important trade commodity.
>
> Now that is an interesting idea.  What is used to make mana sails anyway?
Any ideas?  Threads taken from nebulae?  Crystal shell shavings?  Woven
comet tails?  I have a lot of romantic ideas. :)
>
> >
> >A creature with extremely sharp claws might have those
> >claws (or teeth) end up tipping precise engraving tools, or
> >surgical tools, or sewing needles.
>
> We have had dragon claws do that.  More commonly (different game but same
idea) we had White Wolf werewolves who used their claws in similar manners.
>
> >
> >
> >Maybe an Iconograph, like Terry Pratchett's Disc World
> >series, perhaps using a small sized permanent phantasmal
> >force to capture the image.  Perhaps a crystal that can
> >store images in a facet, such that when a narrow beam of
> >light is shown through it (in a darkened area), it casts
> >that image on the far wall.
> >
>
> There's an obscure spell from 2E called "Crystal Portrait" (don't ask me
what suppliment it's in, I got it out of the Wizards' Spell Compendium.)  It
does more or less what you describe - captures an image in a crystal ball.
The ball can be of any size, but it limits the size of the image.  Material
component is the ball.  It's a first or second level mage spell; our
characters have come to use it fairly extensively (although admittedly, the
most common uses it sees are as the Arcane Medieval equivalent of America's
Funniest Home Videos, and as a way to capture the image of beautiful women.
>
> >Perhaps some kind of water elemental is trapped to power a mill.
> >
> We have had a windmill powered by an air elemental.
>
> >And there are always means of focusing Continual Light spells
> >for signalling or dazzling, or put on a ballista bolt to fire into
> >an enemy ship so as to track it more easily.
>
> Sure, why not?  The drow do it with signalling mirrors; our characters,
who had some drow among them, developed exactly that technique for
signalling; see the Drow of the Underdark or the Menzoberranzan boxed set.
>
> >
> >Perhaps a sewer system leads to some monster which processes
> >the waste.
> >
> Here's a weird one for you - a Sphere of Annihilation as a garbage
disposal!  (I've seen it.)
>
> Yours truly,
> Sable
>
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