From:	"Ojaste,James [NCR]" <James.Ojaste@**.GC.CA>
Subject:	Re: Air Elemental Confinement
Date:	Tue, 19 May 1998 11:23:58 -0400

Ereskanti wrote:
>In a message dated 5/18/98 1:04:38 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
>robert.watkins@******.COM writes:
>
>> And for the munchkin who has everything (don't they all?), I present the
>>Gas
>> Barrier spell. Drain Target is increased by two over Bullet Barrier. The
>> barrier represents a normal Barrier spell, with the exception that the
>> Barrier is airtight. Anyone placed in it will eventually asphyxiate. If
>cast
>> on or around an Air Elemental, the Elemental is instantly disrupted.
>>
>Ah, that is all nice and wondeful Robert except that those munchkins with
>everything must be really loving you, because you didn't present them with
>drain codes, target numbers or anything, therefore if you have the spell
>(even
>at force 1), then it simply must work all the time, without failure. ;p

Uh, he said that the drain code was the same as Bullet Barrier, but
with a +2 to the DT. Since nothing ever said how strong the "airtight
seal" had to be, I'd say that successfully casting a force 1 spell
would work...

>On a more serious note, the spell that Robert is describing, has anyone come
>around with this? We've had a variation of it here, not for the Air
>Elemental
>vulnerability, but for the Vampires in Mist Form and the Knock Out Gasses
>that
>always bothered us.
>
>We just "upped" the drain for a "Barrier" spell by one level, to
represent
>the
>ability to fully effect a given "Elemental Effect" completely. I think that
>would make the spell a [(F/2)+2D] based upon that presumption.

Well, I wouldn't say that it's an elemental effect. It affects
elementals, but that's something completely different.

James Ojaste