Re: Crystal Shell behaviour proposal

I think it should be possible to crash into standard crystal shells. 
It's a solid object in standard cases, so a helmsmen who doesn't pay 
attention can hit it.  Some spheres would be different of course, but 
they should be special and unique and should be something that causes 
wonder (or consternation!) in the PCs.  Of course, if their home sphere 
is that way, it could give them an air of superiority because the gods 
favored their shell over all the others.  :)

Jeff

Dreamer wrote:
> I propose that we nail down the default for how the pseudo-
> physical object/planar boundary that is a crystal shell interacts
> with spelljamming.
> 
> 1) I propose that the crystal shell causes any ship that
> approaches too close to it to drop out of spelljamming speed into
> tactical speed.
> 
> 2) I propose that it is not possible to Crash into a crystal
> shell, and if you do your ship and all its contents instantly and
> harmlessly comes to a halt with respect to the shell.
> 
> 3) I propose that where there are things on the crystal shell,
> such as buildings, statues of gods holding the glowing globes
> that are the stars, etc., it is quite possible to Crash into
> these, and the normal Crashing rules are used.  These things will
> not normally be harmed by such a crash.
> 
> 
> How does that sound?
> 
> I wouldn't expect that it would impact (no pun intended) too much
> on most SJ settings, but I think we do need to be clear what
> happens with maneuvering near a crystal shell.
>