From: "Gerald \"roguebfl\" Grenier" <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:46 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> All:
>
> Any thoughts from you engineering types on how much "thrust" the Water Jet
spell provides at given energy inputs?
>
> The setting:
>
> Enchanted water jet device, self-powered with Power-3, as propulsion on a
water craft.
>
> Any other thoughts?
A possible answer is zero. it might be designed so that the magi is
not blow around like a bad cartoon holding a fire hose.
This is correct per previous rules discussions; jet spell effects emerge
reactionlessly with regard to the caster. However, the finger or wand
can be aimed against a pusher plate, into a bell chamber, over a paddle
wheel, onto sails, etc. and the normal reaction used to propel a
vehicle, even one that the caster is riding.
--
Jeff Wilson - [email protected]
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >
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