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<blockquote data-quote="GreatLemur" data-source="post: 3194124" data-attributes="member: 28553"><p>It's easy to rework magic items so that they function underwater. Remember that there's no reason a single-use spell-delivery item needs to be a fluid in a bottle that's drank by the user. It could just as easily by a box full of magical energy that's opened, or a tiny carved symbol that's snapped in half, or, hell, a bottle of fluid that's released into the water.</p><p></p><p>"Scrolls" might actually make more sense if they were something that didn't even have writing on them (because I've never thought the whole business of them turning blank when used made a lot sense). They can just be small trinkets made of shell or bone or stone with a single spell suspended inside, ready to be released--or analyzed, decoded, and learned--by a spellcaster. </p><p></p><p>...Which brings up the topic of spell books. Maybe big kelp scrolls with text scratched into them? A book made out of shell would get pretty heavy at a one-page-per-spell-level rate, but maybe that's not so bad: Underwater, encumbrance rates might very logically be relaxed a bit. </p><p></p><p>Weapons and armor and such are pretty simple. Where metal isn't available, there's still stone, fish and whale bone, crustacean carapace, mollusk shell, coral, and "scale mail" of the most literal kind. Whether or not these metal-substitutes are as good as steel mechanically is up to you. Personally, I wouldn't worry about it.</p><p></p><p>Also: Believe it or not, you might want to go read Aquaman for inspiration. I am serious. Lately, the comic has had <a href="http://www.eskimo.com/~tegan/aqua/swordofatlantis.html" target="_blank">an odd, swords-and-sorcery-flavored reboot</a>, and it actually looks a lot like an aquatic D&D campaign, these days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreatLemur, post: 3194124, member: 28553"] It's easy to rework magic items so that they function underwater. Remember that there's no reason a single-use spell-delivery item needs to be a fluid in a bottle that's drank by the user. It could just as easily by a box full of magical energy that's opened, or a tiny carved symbol that's snapped in half, or, hell, a bottle of fluid that's released into the water. "Scrolls" might actually make more sense if they were something that didn't even have writing on them (because I've never thought the whole business of them turning blank when used made a lot sense). They can just be small trinkets made of shell or bone or stone with a single spell suspended inside, ready to be released--or analyzed, decoded, and learned--by a spellcaster. ...Which brings up the topic of spell books. Maybe big kelp scrolls with text scratched into them? A book made out of shell would get pretty heavy at a one-page-per-spell-level rate, but maybe that's not so bad: Underwater, encumbrance rates might very logically be relaxed a bit. Weapons and armor and such are pretty simple. Where metal isn't available, there's still stone, fish and whale bone, crustacean carapace, mollusk shell, coral, and "scale mail" of the most literal kind. Whether or not these metal-substitutes are as good as steel mechanically is up to you. Personally, I wouldn't worry about it. Also: Believe it or not, you might want to go read Aquaman for inspiration. I am serious. Lately, the comic has had [url=http://www.eskimo.com/~tegan/aqua/swordofatlantis.html]an odd, swords-and-sorcery-flavored reboot[/url], and it actually looks a lot like an aquatic D&D campaign, these days. [/QUOTE]
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