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?).

The trick is a well-designed and probably expensive arrow-head.
Think of a small plunger that opens a small box.

Making a _balanced_ arrow that is still accurate is a real trick,
and it may not be that reliable.  It would need a direct hit or
the plunger might stick.  I would say that a Dwarven made
Fire Trap arrow would be -2 to hit and detonate, anybody else
and you had better be shooting at a barn door.

> > 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.

A plunger triggers a grapple that causes the jaws of the harpoon
to snap shut against whatever it hits.

Is a mousetrap a 'door' for purposes of the Fire Trap and Wizard lock
spells?  If so, then anything that would _normally_ trigger a mousetrap
could be use to trigger a Fire Trap.  And you could have a mouse trap
that holds itself shut with the force of a Wizard Lock, and no, I do
not want to see the kind of vermin that require that sort of trap...

The harpoon-grapple would be more likely to bounce off than a
normal ballista bolt, but it would hold on much tighter.

> > 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).

So, make a rule that sufficiently potent materials allow the spell to
be cast on a larger batch, or if it is a temporary spell, the materials
allow the spell to last longer, or until discharged.

> > 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.

If you have a dark room suddenly illuminated by Continual light, there
is an effect.  Similar, transiting from a well lit corridor into the
dimly lit helm room might give an advantage to the interior guard.

Michael Sandy