Re: Spelljamming speed, and invisibility

The fleet ships in my old campaign sphere used invisibility and nondetection
type spells to enhance their missile defenses and to help them close with
enemy forces undetected, however, a souped up glitterdust spell and/or
detect invisibility spells usually cancelled out the "cloaking" if used
properly. Also, my players seemed to think that dark paint schemes on their
vessels helped in regards to camouflage, my contention was that there was
indeed times when you actually DID want to have your ship noticed and that
bright colors helped when you needed desperately to have a friendly vessel
spot you for search and rescue. 

V/R FC2 Riley, James R. 
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e-mail: jamesriley@???.net

-----Original Message-----



> That in mind, I've been considering cloaking helms
> and ship 
> invisibility spells.  There is a spell called 'Ship
> Invisibility', I 
> think it's 4th level, in an issue of _Dungeon_
> magazine (an adventure 
[----------S-N-I-P----------]
> dropped to tactical 
> speed.  It says the elves had 'moved in for a closer
> look' just 
> before the attack.
> 
> Comments?

IMC, some ship have cloaking devices that can make the
whole ship invisible, while an iron-clad vessel type
called the sub-mariner can cloak itself by dipping the
whole ship into etherealspace. They both function the
same way, allowing non-detection by nearby normal
space area ships. Depending on the type of
invisibility, I would allow normal ways of detecting
invisibility to work in space, magical or creative
ways. If I was playing and I suspect a ship might be
invisible in my area and I can guess it's general
position, I would shoot a catapult shot packed with
flour to help detect them before opening up with
powder shot and stone shots.

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