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Kanachi 01-10-07, 09:29 PM	Hiya guys, odd request but I was just wondering what spells (or powers) you were all aware of that allow for the aging of either creatures or materials. Also how would you go about making a spells designed to age objects? (making them brittle, rust or have other affects). Thanks!
Mitchell 01-10-07, 11:19 PM	There is already a rusting grasp (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/rustingGrasp.htm) spell, so you have that. As for the aging, if I am wearing my DM hat I have a lot of things better to do with my time than figure out an aging progression for every single race listed in every single book, so I would allow you to research the spell up until the point where you discovered that it couldn't be done. :) Either that or combine various physical stat damaging spells into a single spell and allow the concept to be that the target is rapidly aging, though limited to the extent that when/if they regain their stats, they are reverting to their previous age.
MarrowMage 01-11-07, 12:46 AM	as for objects, i'm thinking a mid or low level transmutation that reduces/eliminates an objects hardness and/or lowers it's hp to represent the brittleness of aging objects...however, certain material types should be immune, as there are real materials that effectively stay the same forever
Yokomohoyo 01-11-07, 01:37 AM	I belive their is a spell in compleat mage (spell check on then name ^_^) that is a touch attack spell that dose temporary aging that lasts 1day/level and has no save for the inital attack but the target must make a fort save every 24hrs to avoid further aging... I forget the name atm
Kanachi 01-11-07, 09:29 AM	as for objects, i'm thinking a mid or low level transmutation that reduces/eliminates an objects hardness and/or lowers it's hp to represent the brittleness of aging objects...however, certain material types should be immune, as there are real materials that effectively stay the same forever Well pritty much any material suffers from age.. stone erodes, metal rusts, wood rots (or cracks) and leather cracks as well. I would say that some crystals like diamonds are immune though as they take such a huge amount of time to age that some probably still linger from before life even knew what it was. Most items an adventurer would carry would be applicable though. Also i dont supose anyone knows roughly how long time takes to damage various materials approximatly? obviously because this is a spell i think its logical to conclude that it ages the material with the asumption that its not tended to i.e not pollishing of swords etc... I agree a spell that incurrs an amount damage to a materials harness and hit points per year rolled sounds logical, Its also logical to conclude that when a materials hardness hits 0 the hp damage increases dramatically (x2 or x3).
MarrowMage 01-11-07, 02:36 PM	Well pritty much any material suffers from age.. stone erodes, metal rusts, wood rots (or cracks) and leather cracks as well. I would say that some crystals like diamonds are immune though as they take such a huge amount of time to age that some probably still linger from before life even knew what it was. Most items an adventurer would carry would be applicable though. Also i dont supose anyone knows roughly how long time takes to damage various materials approximatly? obviously because this is a spell i think its logical to conclude that it ages the material with the asumption that its not tended to i.e not pollishing of swords etc... I agree a spell that incurrs an amount damage to a materials harness and hit points per year rolled sounds logical, Its also logical to conclude that when a materials hardness hits 0 the hp damage increases dramatically (x2 or x3). right, but i added the part about possible materials that don't age just in case...i didn't want to leave room for exploiting or for people to take advantage of the spell due to a lack of wording you're idea about the years rolled and stuff is a good way of handling such a spell, of course the problem of what affects does aging have on wood vs. on metal is still a problem, so it might just be easier to have one set of damage done to all objects
Kanachi 01-11-07, 08:15 PM	right, but i added the part about possible materials that don't age just in case...i didn't want to leave room for exploiting or for people to take advantage of the spell due to a lack of wording you're idea about the years rolled and stuff is a good way of handling such a spell, of course the problem of what affects does aging have on wood vs. on metal is still a problem, so it might just be easier to have one set of damage done to all objects I agree, its best not to make it needlessly complex