Re: Pirates - Was: Places: Dragon Rock Map

>It all depends on how realistic you want to make this. Another thing that bugs me is the
>continual light spell. In 3e it is called continual flame. The new name implies it would
>explode in The Flow, but the spell is identical to the original and neither gives off heat
>or burns up air.
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>If I was on a ship I would pay for continual flame spells to be cast on a lot of items, so
>that I didn't have to burn any torches. In the long run the flames would pay back the cost
>(50gp ruby + whatever the spellcaster wants) as you would keep your air fresh for longer
>than a ship with conventional torches. Pirates of course would pick up continual flame
>items when they raded ships.
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UNLESS you cast the spell on parts of the ship itself (railings, torch
brackets that are part of the wall...prevents theft.

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> I knew of some of these, but, they might suggest a few new magic
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>>items, like the Air Lantern, which while it burns provides fresh
>>air, good for two man-equivalents, in a 10' radius (there is a
>>non-magical alchemical equivalent).
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>An Air Lantern that *burns* sounds counter intuitive. If you are going this way, perhaps
>it should be like an incence burner and give of sweet smelling white smoke.
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>If you want to go for an alchemical solution then I suggest you look up space suit life
>support systems to see what sort of things NASA and the Russians used to clean up their
>air. It might give you a bit of inspiration.
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One of the International Space Stations emergency systems IS candles
that when burned release enoph oxygen to support 1 human for 1 day...

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