Re: Control Day-Night - proposed SJ spell

In <URL:news:local.spelljam> on Wed 23 Aug, Alessandro "La Vecchia" Damiani wrote:
> Dreamer ha scritto:
> 
> Similar spells are listed as EPIC; one thing you could do would be 
> change the school to illusion and pretend that the day - night cycle is 
> an illusion (which could be of course disbelieved)

Thanks for the feedback, I'll take a look at the Epic spells in
the SRD.

One very good reason that it can't be Illusion is that I'd think
that is not much good for growing crops!  Also, can an illusion
of daylight allow you to see things in the dark?

I based the spell, as you might have guessed, off Control
Weather, and the idea was that it can't put something there that
might not be there 'naturally'.

I suppose I could drop all the messing with multiple moons, suns,
and star patterns, though to make the apparent sun move across
the sky is not, I think, much of a stretch to that.


Why do you think this is Epic?

Yes, it can look pretty flashy, and scare the whatever out of a
lot of people, but it makes a lot less mess than Control Weather!


> > This is a proposed spell for use in a spelljamming setting - it
> > would be pretty trivial to do a non-3rdEd version if this was
> > desired.  The idea is an environment modification spell, rather
> > than one which out-and-out produces an artificial environment.
> >
> > In particular, the spell would be useful on Selene, in Maj Space,
> > to fix the problem of the 14-day long days, followed by the
> > 14-day long nights.
> >
> >
> > Control Day-Night
> > Transmutation
> > Level: Clr 6, Drd 6, Sor/Wiz 6, Util 5
> > Components: V, S
> > Casting Time: 10 minutes; see text
> > Range: 2 miles
> > Area: 2-mile-radius circle, centred on you
> > Duration: 24 hours
> > Saving Throw: None
> > Spell Resistance: No
> >
> > You change the day-night cycle in the local area.  It takes 10
> > minutes to cast the spell and an additional 10 minutes for the
> > (full) effects to manifest.  You can produce a day or night
> > appropriate to the climate of the area you are in.
> >
> > You can for example produce an eclipse, if this area ever has
> > such a thing.  Alternatively, you can alter the appearance of the
> > sky as to the number of suns, moons, stars, or patterns or
> > movements of stars.  This will not produce any hotter days than
> > suit this area, or colder nights.  You can cause dusk then night
> > in the middle of the day, or dawn then day during the middle of
> > the night.
> >
> > If desired you can terminate the spell early, for example, you
> > start casting the spell, after ten minutes an eclipse starts, the
> > eclipse reaches maximum after ten minutes, then over the next ten
> > minute clears again, and you terminate the spell.  If you wish to
> > use this spell inside an enclosed space then it must be immense;
> > no normal artificial structure will be suitable.
> >
> > A particular use of this spell is in a spelljamming setting,
> > where you want a 24-hour day-night cycle, optionally with
> > seasonal variations such an Earth-like world would have.  This is
> > generally done by enchanting a magic item with this spell which
> > produces this spell effect once per 24-hr day.  A moon which is
> > tide-locked to a planet can then have a 'standard' day-night
> > pattern, as long as this does not increase the average amount of
> > sunlight received over a year.  Sometimes this spell is used with
> > something like an artificial sun to turn its continuous light
> > into a more useful day-night pattern.
> >
> > You can also choose whether or not your spell effects are visible
> > outside the area; if you desire it looks from the outside as if
> > the normal conditions for the area continue inside, until someone
> > moves inside the spell area.

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