Re: meeting

[Orion Furmanski <thelaw@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Shyryly Yshl wrote:

> 
> 
> Wright Frazier wrote:
> 
> > Teresium stuff is already in the book and dan posted the formula for it.
> > (weight in oz./rad in inches) * 12 = drain
> >
> > bludgeon and move-through I'm curious about though.
> >
> > Wright
> >
> 
> ====
> 
> What's the UOM?  (unit of measure?)  drain per round? minute?
> 
> Also, this just made me think...please make a general annoucement/errata
> (or consider such) that weights (especially in spells) equal force-pounds
> (or
> force units for whatever is listed) so that weight is a constant value in
> spells
> and not dependent on, say, gravity.
> 
> I've seen (and admittedly been involved in) use of Earthforce to get around
> spell limitations...i.e. if something can be fully encompassed in the
> effected
> area of Earthforce, it will have little-to-no weight (for that specific
> aspect
> of the spell)...then spells which have weight effects in their formulae /
> limits
> are used to affect this 'weightless' item.
> 
> The teresium formulae made me think of it...would teresium fail to work
> in zero gravity, or drain more quickly in a 2x field from an Earthforce?
> 
> Anyway... (wanders mumbling back into his cave)
> 
> -Jamie
> 
> 

Good point.  I move that this stuff should be MASS-based instead.  One
brutal bend I will use until the rules change is the two-ton iron flywheel
set up in an Earth Force, Dervished to generate shloads of work. ;)

Orion