Comments on: The Problem with Sunrods? http://buccaneersguild.com/sunrods/ Table Top Pen and Paper RPGs Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:56:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Iain M Norman http://buccaneersguild.com/sunrods/comment-page-1/#comment-528 Iain M Norman Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:29:40 +0000 http://buccaneersguild.com/?p=34#comment-528 If I was your player I hardly think restricting their availability and hiking the price by a multiple of 30 was not a 'big issue'. 'Why use fire for anything? Light the manor house with sunrods!' If I owned a manor house I'd consider using a continual flame spell myself. Sunrods would just get too expensive, especially at 10gp an hour! If I was your player I hardly think restricting their availability and hiking the price by a multiple of 30 was not a ‘big issue’.

‘Why use fire for anything? Light the manor house with sunrods!’

If I owned a manor house I’d consider using a continual flame spell myself. Sunrods would just get too expensive, especially at 10gp an hour!

]]> By: Coherent http://buccaneersguild.com/sunrods/comment-page-1/#comment-527 Coherent Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:18:17 +0000 http://buccaneersguild.com/?p=34#comment-527 I completely disagree that sunrods are appropriate to a fantasy setting. I think the essential problem is the duration. Six hours? Modern technology itself would have a problem with providing that much light, that brightly, for such a long duration. I'm facing this issue in my campaign right now. I'm not going to make a big issue out of it, but I am going to severely limit the availability of Sunrods to cities of at least 10,000 people or more for general procurement. And I'm definitely going to cut down their burn time to maybe an hour, if that. And they will likely cost 10gp minimum. They're simply ludicrously convenient. Why use fire for anything? Light the manor house with sunrods! I disagree. The procurement and transport of the materials they're made of, the labor and skill level it requires to make them, all state that they should be a much more valuable and significantly rarer item than they are. Eberron does not have large scale exotic plant farming, refrigeration, nor alchemical mass production. I completely disagree that sunrods are appropriate to a fantasy setting. I think the essential problem is the duration. Six hours? Modern technology itself would have a problem with providing that much light, that brightly, for such a long duration.

I’m facing this issue in my campaign right now. I’m not going to make a big issue out of it, but I am going to severely limit the availability of Sunrods to cities of at least 10,000 people or more for general procurement. And I’m definitely going to cut down their burn time to maybe an hour, if that. And they will likely cost 10gp minimum.

They’re simply ludicrously convenient. Why use fire for anything? Light the manor house with sunrods! I disagree. The procurement and transport of the materials they’re made of, the labor and skill level it requires to make them, all state that they should be a much more valuable and significantly rarer item than they are. Eberron does not have large scale exotic plant farming, refrigeration, nor alchemical mass production.

]]> By: Iain http://buccaneersguild.com/sunrods/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Iain Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:30:52 +0000 http://buccaneersguild.com/?p=34#comment-4 Good points, I shall bring them up. Good points, I shall bring them up.

]]> By: Alric http://buccaneersguild.com/sunrods/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Alric Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:25:25 +0000 http://buccaneersguild.com/?p=34#comment-3 Well stated. I might add that a light source so bright may actually *increase* the chances of a party being surprised, since a sunrod's intensity will notify any monsters of the heroes' approach well in advance (in outdoor settings, a light that bright could be visible for miles under clear conditions). In addition, the converse is also true: it will be virtually impossible for heroes to surprise anything while carrying such a bright light. Well stated. I might add that a light source so bright may actually *increase* the chances of a party being surprised, since a sunrod’s intensity will notify any monsters of the heroes’ approach well in advance (in outdoor settings, a light that bright could be visible for miles under clear conditions). In addition, the converse is also true: it will be virtually impossible for heroes to surprise anything while carrying such a bright light.

]]> By: Iain http://buccaneersguild.com/sunrods/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Iain Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:08:48 +0000 http://buccaneersguild.com/?p=34#comment-2 No offence to my DM intended with this post, I was something we discussed as a group and I felt the need to share with the wider community. No offence to my DM intended with this post, I was something we discussed as a group and I felt the need to share with the wider community.

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