[gurps] Entombment spell question

[Brandon Cope]

--- Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:

> > From: Craig Roth <craig.roth at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [gurps] Entombment spell question
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Troy Guffey
> <troyguffey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> If I cast the Entombment spell on Al the Voyeur
> Stalker in his apartment on
> >> the 15th story of the Galemoore building, where
> does he go?  Just down 50
> >> feet, or 50 feet under the foundation?
> >>
> > 
> > Does it work on flying creatures that are 150 feet
> in the air? Maybe the
> > spell just fails when cast more than a certain
> height above ground level.
> > Maybe the spell can be cast above the ground, but
> with the cost multiplied
> > per every 50 feet above the ground the target is.
> 
> When I asked Kromm about this many years ago, what
> he said amounted to 
> that it only works on subjects with no gap in solid
> material between 
> them and the earth. So victims on upper floors are
> safe, as are flying 
> subjects, those in cars, people on the ground floor
> above basements and 
> crawlspaces, people in cars, and those in the water
> but not resting on 
> the bottom.

The problem with this is that it severely reduces the
effectiveness of the spell in a modern setting, where
most first floors have a gap between it and the earth.

I personally would rule that as long as there was a
solid connection between the character and the ground.
So a character in water or trhe air is unaffected,
while one on the roof of a building or on a dock would
be.

Brandon