Leomund’s Secret Chest in GURPS Magic - how?

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Originally Posted by mlangsdorf

Hideaway might be redundant with Hide Object, because it's not clear if an item under Hide Object counts as encumbrance.

It is, the simplest way is to enchant the container at full carry capacity and just allow it to Hide Object with all it's contents. If you want eh chest to have more space inside than it should... then maybe also cast Hideaway...

If you want a "Hide Object but only the contents", just write a new enchantment spell using Hideaway as the baseline and up the cost to 100 per pound.

Or, just, you know, be a little flexible and allow the enchanter to decide the container they are enchanting with Hide Object doesn't disappear, only the contents. I mean, it's not like we GMs can't be flexible, and this is a very simple solution.


One thing I did a long time ago was I made Hideaway a Gate spell, cost was 1 per 20 pounds, or 1 per five pounds if not counted, and based the rest of the spell as per Hide Object and made it prereq for Hide Object. Hideaway slipped only a portion of the contained objects into another dimension, not the whole object... what I should have done was just make them one spell.

It's not like Hideaway at 100 per pound is objectively better or worse than Hide Object at 100 per pound, they do similar but just different enough things to make them slightly different and both have equal value given different situational requirements.

The only catch is how they interact with the metaplay for spells like Lighten Burden.