Enchanting Vehicles

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by zoncxs

I never read such a rule in any 4e book. Can you locate the source?

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Gurps Thaumatology Urban Magics p.33. That's in the section on Enchnting Buildings.

[scc]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Hawk Flight starts out at 3000 for a human but it'd be 15,000 energy to Enchant a SM+4 tank. The real problem though is that cost to cast and maintain is also multiplied by SM+1. So you're looking at 40 to Cast and 20 to Maintain.

This is wrong. Hawk Flight is a casting item, that is the enchantment allows someone who doesn't know the spell to cast it, so the size of the item it's cast on doesn't matter. In fact the only time that the cost to enchant would be affected by object size would be when the object would now have an intrinsic effect that doesn't cost energy to use and would be improved by the objects size.

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by scc

This is wrong. Hawk Flight is a casting item, that is the enchantment allows someone who doesn't know the spell to cast it, so the size of the item it's cast on doesn't matter. .

Look at the Item notes for Hawk Flight in Magic.

Not only are Hawk Flight Items Mage Only, they only work for the wearer. So unless your GM allows you to research a new generic Hawk flight Item (which would undoubtedly cost more) there's no such thing as a Hawk Flight Item that allows you to cast the Spell on whatever you please.

In any event, the cost to Cast the Spell is going to obey the Regular Spell rule and be multiplied by SM+1. That's still 40 to Cast and 20 to Maintain which makes this rather impractical.

[Plane]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Gurps Thaumatology Urban Magics p.33. That's in the section on Enchnting Buildings.

Great find, sounds like that book deserves more attention.

[Mark Skarr]

Originally Posted by DangerousThing

Yes, fire the gun and fly away!!!

All I can think about after this statement.
(SFW movie clip)

We've had, in our Infinite Weirdos game, the mage cast Missile Shield on the Herkimer, and it was incredibly effective, save for the massive FP/HP cost the character inflicted on themselves.