Re: Damaging living Spelljamming ships?

In <URL:news:local.spelljam> on Sat 04 Feb, Blackmaer wrote:
> So if the vessel is a living entity, then in theory it could be subject to 
> sleep, charm, hold, etc??

I consider that a living elven ship is at some risk from:

Warp Wood
Plant Growth
Speak with Plants
Anti-Plant Shell
Pass Plant
Transport Via Plants
Turn Wood
Hold Plant
Charm Plant


> Say for example, a flitter @ 1 Hull Point = 10 Hit Points = save as a 
> first level fighter?

Yes, that is what I would use. Each hull point gives 5 hit points
for the purpose of working out level, and each 5HP gives one hit
dice. So, a ship saves as a fighter of level equal to its hull
points.

(This is because I consider only half the hit points to be
positive ones, as the ship starts losing function once it is half
damaged, and living creatures normally only do this below zero
hit points.)


> Or, since they have been grown/built/enchanted/modified or whatever by the 
> elves, would they get the elven resistance to these spells?

Unless you think the trees are part elf ... I don't see why they
would. Elves come from LotR and from ideas about woodland
spirits, which is where I _think_ they are supposed to get some
of their unworldly resistance to magic from.

I would say that they are just as vulnerable to spells that
control plants as any other plant is. But, just because you have
Charmed them, that does not mean you have any control of the
Helm, just control of their movement that they are capable of as
plants.


> If so, then in theory, a living ship that was created by a Drow Elf would 
> have the standard Drow Elven magic resistance, right?

No, not unless you are mixing drow into the plant!

Anyhow, I think drow using space-going fungii, rather like the
Thermo Fungi that I gave a spec of a while ago, seems more in
character! [grin]


> Imagine the eeeeeevil possibilities of that.....
> 
> --Blackmaer, feeling his players shudder in their sleep.

A DM who has sleep magic that works on their players! Now, that
_is_ interesting! [grin]

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