Re: New Spell: Endless Atmosphere

In <URL:news:local.spelljam> on Wed 08 Nov, Adam Miller wrote:
> --- Dreamer <dreamer@??????.?????.??.uk> wrote:
[snip]

> > > Endless Atmosphere creates air at the rate of 2
> > > man-hours per round, or enough fresh air for 1,200
> > > man-sized creatures.
> > 
> > 2/rnd = 20/min = 120/hr = 240/2hr
> > 
> > in 2hrs 1,200 will have consumed 2,400 man hours of
> > air
> > 
> > I think you want 20 man-hours per round.
> 
> Nope, you've got an hour as 6 minutes long. ;)

Didn't I warn you about my math? [grin]


> > Presumably this will start with an air bubble at the
> > centre of
> > the ship, after one round 2,160 cubic feet (20
> > man-hours), then
> > +2,160 cf per round.  One SJ ton has an air bubble
> > 21,600 cf, so
> > it will be ten rounds (one minute) to reach this
> > size.  A 100 tn
> > ship has an air bubble 2,160,000 cf, so one thousand
> > rounds (a
> > hundred minutes) to replace this.
> > 
> > A man-hour is 108 cubic feet of air, which some
> > googling makes look about right, in RW terms.
> 
> Ack, not going THAT complex!  :O
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Might be worth saying the spell replaces air for one SJ ton per
ten minutes - might affect its use in some game settings.

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