Leave to the players to come up with something leaviing me with a WTF expression.

The questions are regarding the spirit binding power. How would it affect a waterborn craft, when the boat (In this case a Jetski type vehicle) is binded to the surface of the water?

My question to DS is:
Does this result in a crash test?

What impact does it have on passengers?

Binding requires no roll, but to break free requires a STR+BOD check. There is no mention of Vehicles in the power so in theory a vehicle can't take it.

Lastly-can an object (a vehicle) be a victim of this power? THe text of the binding power seems focused on living creatures.


My ruling was that it did stop the vehicle, but caused no damage. I did have the mook make a str check to keep himself from face planting the handle bars (he failed).

I would say that the vehicle would immediately be able to break free - the momentum from a car driving is outside the normal scope of that power. However, the brief amount of time that it was affected I would have the driver do a Crash Test.

You did a good spur-of-the-moment ruling though.

I read the three sentence paragraph describing that power. I tend to agree with you. At least it would involve an immediate break check with the speed of the vehicle (1 die for every 5m and + 1 per point of body) vs the bod+Magic of the spirit.

That seems like more bookkeeping than needed - just auto-break the vehicle if it's moving at a decent speed and make a Crash Test instead.

I'm not convinced that binding would work the same way on water - I'd say a watercraft would slow down, due to friction with the water stuck to the boat's bottom, but probably not enough to force a crash test unless there's already some chop. Ground craft, yeah, crash away, if they don't have smart tires at least.

If this were a fast jetski, speedboat, or hydrofoil I could see it having problems.

I think it would have exactly the opposite effect. A thin layer of water molecules would be stuck to the bottom of the craft and create a molecule-level smooth surface to glide across the unattached water. Similar in effect to the Movement power of critters, I would guess.

You get stuck to a solid because the molecules are in a lattice that hangs together.

Now, I suppose one could argue that the spell has an area of effect, and that it creates a semi-circular glob of attached water beneath the boat. That might slow it down. A matter of interpretation of the exact nature of the binding.

It does seem to be intended for living beings, and liquids probably do not count as surfaces.

Ahh, Yerameyahu, you're making the tension in here raise...

You're all wet, Neraph.

That was bad...on the surface of it even!