Re: Planar Structure and Cosmology - Planejammer?

In <URL:news:local.spelljam> on Wed 13 Apr, George "Loki" Williams wrote:
> > Maybe you could have 'shadow barges', parallel to spelljammers,
> > that travel through the Plane of Shadow, rather than the
> > Phlogiston?
> >
> > What would be really interesting would be a mechanism which
> > allowed you to travel through both, or maybe even all the
> > 'transitive planes', such as the Ethereal, Astral, Shadow and
> > Phlogiston.
> >
> > Would this go some way towards satisfying the needs of the
> > Planejammer project?
>
> There are already parallels existent. There are references to Etherships on
> the Ethereal, as well as SJ style ships that sail the skies of the Abyss in
> several Planescape products. (Look for a conversion of the Ethership Power
> Core at the end of this email). In the Planejammer stuff I am working on
> there are different means of propulsion needed on different planes. Helms
> work on the Prime and astral according to the write up on Crosswinds Keep
> (search the WOTC site for it), There are Astral sails and bound elemental
> spirits powering the Githyanki astral ships in Incursion (Dragon/Dungeon
> Magazine back issues- Githyanki Invasion of the Prime), Etherships use bound
> elementals, etc.
>
> The trick is not so much traveling while in the transitive planes (and I
> think they all should be fair game), but transposing the ship from one to
> the next. Other than portals from the flow into a sphere you rarely will
> find a planar gate large enough for a ship.

Creating a planar gate is a one-off process, if you cannot find
one that already exists, to take you where you want to go. That
sounds like casting a spell with a relatively short duration to
me. And, it is probably just a two dimensional effect, an area
you move your vessel through, like entering a mirror.

Actually travelling within a plane needs some sort of big
three-dimensional effect, that covers the whole vessel, and this
must have a long duration, typically a permanent enchantment.

While opening the planar gate may be difficult, you could argue
that moving the vessel around is pretty difficult as well, and
might even be harder, under certain circumstances.


> Keep ideas coming as I am tightening up my Planejammer notes and the
> Metalspace sphere I was working on before Mardi Gras and hope to have
> them posted within the week.

Ethership Power Core?


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