This is half a rules question and half an invitation for fun discussion. Not positive it belongs here, because I don't see anything in the rules that directly addresses this, unless it's in a FAQ or something similar that I haven't seen.
The Mansion created is up to 300' per side and has up to four stories (however, interestingly, it doesn't say how many sides it has). The duration is "until the next time you make your daily preparations."
So, what happens to the people up on the 4th floor when you make your next daily preparations if you forget to tell them to get out first?
And as an aside, if the mansion has four sides, it can be up to 36,000 square feet of living space. Pretty spacious. But, what if you decide to make it a decagon (ten sides) at 300' per side, it would have a bit over 69,000 square feet of living space.
Saldiven wrote: This is half a rules question and half an invitation for fun discussion. Not positive it belongs here, because I don't see anything in the rules that directly addresses this, unless it's in a FAQ or something similar that I haven't seen.
The Mansion created is up to 300' per side and has up to four stories (however, interestingly, it doesn't say how many sides it has). The duration is "until the next time you make your daily preparations."
So, what happens to the people up on the 4th floor when you make your next daily preparations if you forget to tell them to get out first?
Clearly they cease to exist along with the demiplane. Utterly and irrevocably, with no evidence of their demise. Unless you knock them out and strip them of their valuables and are seen wearing/using them later before consigning them to the void.
Saldiven wrote: And as an aside, if the mansion has four sides, it can be up to 36,000 square feet of living space. Pretty spacious. But, what if you decide to make it a decagon (ten sides) at 300' per side, it would have a bit over 69,000 square feet of living space. But wouldn't you then have to call it a Resplendent McMansion? ;-)
There is no demi-plane with the Resplendent Mansion, though. It differs from the Magnificent Mansion, in this respect.
The spell only has the Conjuration keyword, while Magnificent Mansion has both Conjuration and Extradimensional. Magnificent Mansion's text also specifies that it is an extradimensional space. Resplendent Mansion makes no mention of extradimensional spaces. That spell actually conjures a freaking mansion.
I kind of think anyone in upper floors would just plummet to the ground when the spell came to an end.
PF2 leans heavily away from spells causing unintentional damage. So given there's no explicit answer, one could adjudicate that the mansion melted into nothingness, depositing people safely upon the surface.
Not that falls from that height mean much at those levels.
Then again, the spell also doesn't specify how tall the stories are. :)
As for sides, that was a Western cultural error to presume 4 sides!
With no limit to sides there'd technically be no limit to size either.
Why stop at ten? Just guesstimate how much surface area you've got and your 18+ Int Wizard should be able to fill it with a (just barely not) circular mansion. Or not because common sense is part of RAW in PF2.
Haha. I picked 10 just to be easy.
But, if we want to go all even farther on this thing, a 100 sided Resplendent Mansion would have an area of 71,000,000+ square feet. Per floor. That's 2.54 square miles. Per floor.
And, my calculation above for the 10 sided mansion was a slight mistake. The 69,000 figure is also per floor.
And, I actually hadn't considered that the height of each floor was not specified. I mean, it's a mansion, so it's probably not going to have 8' ceilings, right? That would hardly be "resplendent."
Honestly, the more I think about it, the more hilarious this spell becomes.
You've dropped a zero. A four-story square mansion 300 feet on a side has 360,000 square feet of space.
Although that raises the question: What happens if the space isn't empty? The spell is oddly silent on that. It doesn't say anything about needing space to conjure the mansion.
Honestly, conjuring a physical mansion may be more visually impressive and obviously the mansion itself is better, but I think I might prefer the lower-level spell as an adventurer.
The spell should give the mansion the Structure trait to prevent issues with compatible land and making sure it only works when there are no other structures, similar to how Cozy Cabin is worded. As it is now, it's probably best to go with those rules to prevent issues.
Would the 500' range have any effect on things here? I forget how it handles square areas but I though it measured from the centre and not a corner.
There's no Area for the spell, which you would measure from the center, so I would say it needs to all be within the range of 500 feet, which would limit the size of the building significantly.
I'm still mostly entertained by the thought of guests on the 4th floor being unceremoniously dumped onto the ground if they overslept....
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I imagine you go to sleep in this luxurious room, then wake up cold, alone and confused in the middle of a field with no one around. Great way to scam a few gold off travelers.
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