Re: Blue Fields

[Steve Ames <steve>]

Wow! This topic sucks. Any real answer creates some munchkin like
abuses. Possibilities:

1) You are relative to the universe (ie you don't move but your planet and
   solar system and galaxy all do. See Ya)

2) You are relative to some thing that produces at least X gravity well
   (ie your planet or maybe a large star ship... anyone ever tried this
   aboard a boat sized space craft?)

3) Your relative to whatever you were relative to when the blue field
   was cast.

Blech. All of these have bad points. For playability reasons (1) is
undesirable. Option 2 seems to be the most widely used and works great
as long as your planet side (99.999% of the time). Option 3 would mean
that you would stay moving with the boat when you got blue fielded and
this has been done as well.

My personal vote is for #3. But this does mean that if I'm carrying a
creature and then blue field it, it does stay with me until its un
blue-fielded... this could be used in munchkin manner.

						-Steve

> This brings up a question. Why did the boat move out from around the
> blue field? There is reason to say it happens but the reason has failing
> points. You take that spot out of time it doesn't move but it does.
> Remember there is a relativity issue working here. If you blue field and
> don't remain relative to your immediate surroundings you would stay while
> your surroundings move simple. But the planet is also moving and I don't
> see blue fields shooting off into space. You stay relative to the planet
> you are on so why not to your immediate surroundings?
>
> Back with the old type-1 blue fields you could move them and they stayed
> relative to where you put them. They were indestructable but not unmoveable.
> Great party gag to blue field someone and then push them just off the ship
> and drop the spell. Splash.
>
> The only question is how is the relativity defined.
> >
> > Everyone more or less gets out OK, there is the FEEL of character death,
> > but no one got waxed.
> >
> > THAT'S the way drowning ought to be.
> >
> > -John
>
> Ahh the ememinant threat of death is good. The whole issue came up with
> the fact that some GMs made emanant threat become immediate fact.
>
> 						Greg
>