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Re: (TFT) More on Control Weather.
In a message dated 2/28/2003 5:46:34 AM Central Standard Time,
rsmith@lightspeed.ca writes:
> The basic questions is does a GM want to
> have weather control expensive or cheap. I am
> bothered more, by how the spell description does
> not answer a number of questions that I'm sure
> that my PC's would ask.
>
> What happens when two weather magicians
> start asking for opposite things? Things that
> are not directly opposed?
The weather unfolds according to the desires of the wizard who cast the spell
most recently. OTOH, I do need better rules for what happens when a second
wizard "resists" the first, rather than just casting the spell afterwards to
"put things back." That's going into version 2.
> What about 'in
> between' weather systems.
>
> For example, I start pushing back storms
> but there are fogs, mists, drizzles, localized
> thunderstorms that don't >>quite<< reach my
> area of effect but would be raining on the
> neighboring areas. How are they affected?
Essentially not at all.
> Let us say that I have 3 big storms piled
> up. I run out of fST and they all happen. What
> happens to the weather that happened between
> those storms?
The weather that would have normally have happened between those storms was
already made to happen by the Weather Control spell. That's how the three
storms *got* "piled up" in the first place: The wizard delayed the storms by
moving the weather between them "up front" - to happen earlier, instead of
the storms.
> Let us say the big storms are let loose
> in a dry spell. Does my area (say 20 km radius)
> get huge rainfall while the surrounding areas
> remain dry?
Yes, except for the runoff
> What is the _range_ of this spell?
In v2, to the horizon, or to the extent of the local natural storms &
squalls, whichever is less.
> How
> do the weather effects blend at the edges?
They feather out rapidly, but not so abruptly as to be completely unnatural.
Say, over a few dozen meters.
> With out knowing more about how these
> questions would be answered, I would be guessing
> when I try to set a fST cost.
Well, this spell is particularly vague because the subject, in my view, is
particularly vague. How big is a "natural" thunderstorm or a "natural" sunny
day? What is its area of effect?
Erol K. Bayburt
Evil Genius for a Better Tomorrow
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