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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6362210" data-attributes="member: 57383">Yes, I put the question mark behind it because I was thinking we'd probably change it from the 1 minute of the original Father-of-all-the Turtles version.In our universe, such accretion would likely take millions of years, but the physics of the Spelljammer universe is so bizarrely different from the &quot;real world&quot; it could be almost anything.I'd rather not nail it down to a specific time, and have something like &quot;In areas thick in dust and rocks, such as a planetary ring, a gammaroid&nbsp; can cover itself in camouflaging material in an hour or so. In an asteroid&nbsp; belt it may take days or weeks of accretion to create this covering, or&nbsp; up to several months if the asteroid belt is particularly thin.&quot;Actually, the gammaroid ought to be able to carry around its camouflage coating with it. How about this revision: Camouflage (Ex): Gammaroids are so massive their own gravity accretes a layer of rocks and dust upon a body. This covering allows a gammaroid to pull its head and limbs into its shell&nbsp; and imitate an asteroid. So long as the gammaroid does not&nbsp; move, it requires a DC 25 [?] Spot check for another creature to notice the imposture. It takes a gammaroid 1 minute [?] to assume this camouflage.

A gammaroid loses this camouflage coating if it moves by Spinning Flight, since the centripetal forces of its rotation hurls the accreted material away. It must replace the coating if it wishes to use Camouflage again. In areas thick in dust and rocks, such as a planetary ring, a gammaroid&nbsp; can cover itself in camouflaging material in an hour or so. In an asteroid&nbsp; belt it may take days or weeks of accretion to create this covering, or&nbsp; up to several months if the asteroid belt is particularly thin.
&nbsp; How's that?I'm wondering whether we should increase the DC of the Camouflage. It depends whether we want ordinary travellers to have a decent chance of spotting a Gammaroid before they fly up to one, or whether we want to have Epic Level characters have some change of not noticing it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6362210, member: 57383"] Yes, I put the question mark behind it because I was thinking we'd probably change it from the 1 minute of the original Father-of-all-the Turtles version. In our universe, such accretion would likely take millions of years, but the physics of the Spelljammer universe is so bizarrely different from the "real world" it could be almost anything. I'd rather not nail it down to a specific time, and have something like "In areas thick in dust and rocks, such as a planetary ring, a gammaroid can cover itself in camouflaging material in an hour or so. In an asteroid belt it may take days or weeks of accretion to create this covering, or up to several months if the asteroid belt is particularly thin." Actually, the gammaroid ought to be able to carry around its camouflage coating with it. How about this revision: [INDENT] [B]Camouflage (Ex):[/B] Gammaroids are so massive their own gravity accretes a layer of rocks and dust upon a body. This covering allows a gammaroid to pull its head and limbs into its shell and imitate an asteroid. So long as the gammaroid does not move, it requires a DC 25 [[COLOR=#ff0000][B]?[/B][/COLOR]] Spot check for another creature to notice the imposture. It takes a gammaroid 1 minute [[COLOR=#ff0000][B]?[/B][/COLOR]] to assume this camouflage. A gammaroid loses this camouflage coating if it moves by Spinning Flight, since the centripetal forces of its rotation hurls the accreted material away. It must replace the coating if it wishes to use Camouflage again. In areas thick in dust and rocks, such as a planetary ring, a gammaroid can cover itself in camouflaging material in an hour or so. In an asteroid belt it may take days or weeks of accretion to create this covering, or up to several months if the asteroid belt is particularly thin. [/INDENT] How's that? I'm wondering whether we should increase the DC of the Camouflage. It depends whether we want ordinary travellers to have a decent chance of spotting a Gammaroid before they fly up to one, or whether we want to have Epic Level characters have [I]some[/I] change of not noticing it. [/QUOTE]

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