Re: Enspelled items

> Fire trap and Glyph of Warding arrows for example.  (and
> special carrying cases that prevent them from being
> accidentally touched and discharged)

Fire trap arrows won't work.  You have to have an openable container
for fire trap.  Glyph of warding would not work on an arrow IMC and the
2e spell description seems to imply the same but doesn't say so (it
does say it prevents intrusion, so offensive use seems to be out, and
how do you intrude on an arrowhead anyway?).

> I was trying to come up with an idea for a harpoon that
> clamps on to something with a Wizard Lock.  It would be
> stored in the open position, but when it closes on impact
> the permanent magic of the wizard lock takes affect.
> You could create a bunch of man traps this way as well.
>
> As I understand the spell, the wizard lock actually strengthens
> the entire door, so a harpoon with even a weak hit might
> only be dislodged by serious damage to the hull.

Wizard lock requires an openable object also, and one that is already
put together.  Your harpoon can't open and isn't part of whatever it
hits.

> It would be interesting if one shot weapons like Javelins of
> Piercing or Javelins of Lightning were fairly common in
> some areas, because of high quality materials that allow
> larger batch production of one shot magic items.

It's the enchanting that's the problem, not the materials (though in
some areas both will be problems).

> 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.

The latter tactic has been posted several times by me.  It's a pretty
good one.  Dazzling wouldn't work by the spell description, however.
Continual light has a set area of effect, regardless of what's around
it, the magic can only illuminate to a certain range.

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