Re: Waterjammers

> Say, you've got a point about the tonnage.... according to canon,
> something
> attached by a rope *does* count against the tonnage. That's why
> towing with
> spelljammers is tricky and can be unsafe, for example.
>
> Hmm.... I don't know geometry well enough to figure how a ship's air
> envelope affects its tonnage, beyond the obvious. Canon materials
> cover the
> *sizes* of envelopes thoroughly, while *variant* envelopes are
> mentioned
> only once that I remember.
>
> But I tend to agree that a water envelope should have some kind of
> effect...
> but couldn't say what it might be, exactly. LOL My thinking is along
> the
> same lines as yours - that much water is HEAVY, far heavier than the
> same
> amount of air. Even with a spelljammer helm, I'm seriously doubting
> that a
> ship could simply ignore it.
>
> The whole thing is a tangent, of course, but who knows - someone
> might pop a
> module into Dungeon with this idea sometime, if Dungeon accepts SJ
> submissions (I don't know; don't subscribe). A wreck drifting in
> space with
> an air envelope filled with water could be a startlingly different
> site-based adventure, for example. The issue we're discussing would
> be
> important if the PCs tried to *move* it....  hehehe And imagine
> swimming in
> binary gravity! :)

I actually wrote up some spells dealign with this in my SJ Deep
Sashelas write-up but Static has gotten so busy he's never had time to
put it on the BtM site.  :(

We do know that water can't simply be lifted off with as part of the
envelope (otherwise ships would never be able to land on water without
bringing it along) and someone did put a ship on the web that was
sealed to contain the water--since it's all volume, weight doesn't matter.

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