Re: Spelljammer comics

In a message dated 4/3/05 1:00:27 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
Night_Druid@??????????.net writes:

>
>   It really shouldn't take too much to make a ship fully submesible.
> There are three big problems: water pressure, make the ship watertight, and
> movement.  A helm takes care of movement.  Making a ship watertight
> shouldn't be too difficult, although you might end up with only a couple of
> hatches.  The big obstacle is water pressure, a killer even today.  But
> there are almost infinite possible resources in wildspace, so a good DM
> could just do some handwaving and create a wood or metal that renders a ship
> immune to the effects of underwater pressure.  Or perhaps you could have an
> airy-water effect surrounding the ship, in essence making the ship immune to
> pressure.  Or a layer of a tar-like substance that mimics the effects of a
> wall of force.  Etc.
>
>

The tar effect might do double duty of sealing the ship as well as protect
against water pressure. Maybe this is an "extra" some Mercane try to sell with
the Triop itself and something that has been sold to those that can afford it.