The spell says object touched so could a spell-caster touch his tower and cover the entire thing in Continual flame? It would look rather impressive and would keep the place lit.
It would be interesting if an Archon blooded Aasimar (chosen due to the fact they have Continual Flame as an SLA, which means it removes the costly material components that would make this prohibitively expensive) went obsessive compulsive with this.
Maybe he fears tieflings bursting in with darkness SLAs and he has that alternate racial trait that trades away darkvision for a halo.
Imagine he lights up everything in his house with this fire? Now imagine the trouble that would occur if an ACTUAL fire started in that house. Like finding hay in a straw stack.
That sounds like an interesting sidequest- "Save the Sage's house from burning down!"
Anything, but as BRF sez, the size of the flame/light remains the same.
It's only equivalent to a torch in brightness.....so...basically it's like a permanent farie fire?
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So if it is only the brightness of a torch spread over the entire object how many times would you have to cast Continual flame on the planet before anyone would notice?
The spell makes a little flame, like the flame on a torch. It would not be spread out.
So the question then becomes "How many hundreds of thousands of times do I have to cast it for the desired effect?"
Yeah, I suggested an archon blooded aasimar due to its free 1/day use of the spell, and because they can live about 500 years.
I think one of the devs commented that planetouched races were meant to have similar lifespans to humans a while back, but I don't remember it well enough to find the quote.
I think one of the devs commented that planetouched races were meant to have similar lifespans to humans a while back, but I don't remember it well enough to find the quote.
Yeah, I know JJ weighed in on that, saying how he would have preferred that. But, currently, the in print life spans are the ones in The Advanced Race Guide, and that puts aasimar maximum ages as 250 + 6d% years.
So the max age is more like 850 years. I guess I was way off with that. Yeah, I think you could cover a sturdy stone tower in over 300,000 castings of continual flame.
Do I agree that anything, ever, should use d100? No. My mind is still kind of locking up when looking at that equation up there. I don't, however, particularly mind the near thousand year lifespan of creatures that are born under the influence of an entirely different plane of existence, particularly when they are likely descended from immortal creatures.
The spell says object touched so could a spell-caster touch his tower and cover the entire thing in Continual flame? It would look rather impressive and would keep the place lit.
I think I would limit it to an object no larger than the area lit by the spell. Or perhaps an area no larger than that lit by the spell.
So you could light up the whole planet, but you would have to light each section separately.
Which brings up the question of why it matters? Since no adventurer is likely to have that kind of lifespan anyway and his/her level seems to make all the difference. I mean, you're unlikely to play a character for more than a gaming year or two anyway even if they don't run into a herd of dragons.I think one of the devs commented that planetouched races were meant to have similar lifespans to humans a while back, but I don't remember it well enough to find the quote.Yeah, I know JJ weighed in on that, saying how he would have preferred that. But, currently, the in print life spans are the ones in The Advanced Race Guide, and that puts aasimar maximum ages as 250 + 6d% years.
Well, I will not argue the minimum age (64? Hard to bring that in story), but having races which just get plain ancient can be important for the narrative without making up some random explanation as to 'why' (remember, immortality is a capstone for wizards, and other, similar methods have just as much difficulty).
So, how does it matter? I mean, I did just create an NPC-ish character, in this very thread, that spent the better part of a millennium suffering from a mix of paranoia and obsessive compulsive disorder that lead to a side quest type situation. And he worked with simple methods which would take the kind of time found with the max age currently used. If he was human, I doubt this character could cover more than a modest sized house in his lifetime if you took some of the more conservative views on continual flame.