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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8429503" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Ahhh... You're referring to rotational velocity, my mistake. I totally misunderstood your statement as an issue of lateral distance teleport &quot;Suddenly&quot; shooting someone down toward the surface of the earth before they appeared. I apologize!That is a serious issue! There'd also be the issue of the planet's relative position to Galactic central point, since we're on a spinning ball orbiting a ball of flaming gas which is itself hurtling through space at implausible speeds. If you were facing toward the North Pole before the teleport your &quot;Galactic Momentum&quot; would be &quot;Forward&quot;, but if you appeared 6 feet south of the North Pole your preserved momentum would be &quot;Toward low orbit&quot;. Meanwhile that preserved momentum if you teleported to face north of the South Pole by 6ft would be &quot;Into the surface of the Earth&quot;...Definitely something important to consider!The game designers have stated that only the core books are &quot;Canon for D&amp;D&quot; while all adventures and stuff are official only within their specific settings.This is called &quot;Verisimilitude&quot; and is the presumption one makes when dealing with a work of fiction. Any work of fiction. D&amp;D isn't special in this regard. Unless specified otherwise, stuff just works normally.General Relativity is great in theory. nudge nudgeBut we've learned a lot since Einstein. And we'll learn more. We already know that quantum teleportation is possible (Spooky Action at a Distance, FTW!) and we're learning a ton about different structures of reality that may eventually unseat our current understanding of physics based on quantum physics. Hence the desire for a Unified Field Theory. It may be that Teleportation is entirely impossible.But.That's where the Magic is, sidestepping all of our understanding of the requirements of physics, further modified by the Game Designers stating that momentum is, in fact, preserved (at least relative to the nearest planet)The spell doesn't say that... so... shrugs! The elemental plane of fire thing, I mean. What it -does- say is there is an &quot;Explosion of Flame&quot; which ignites things in the area that aren't being worn or carried. Why it would be selective I haven't a clue.Pretty much.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8429503, member: 6796468"] Ahhh... You're referring to rotational velocity, my mistake. I totally misunderstood your statement as an issue of lateral distance teleport "Suddenly" shooting someone down toward the surface of the earth before they appeared. I apologize! That is a serious issue! There'd also be the issue of the planet's relative position to Galactic central point, since we're on a spinning ball orbiting a ball of flaming gas which is itself hurtling through space at implausible speeds. If you were facing toward the North Pole before the teleport your "Galactic Momentum" would be "Forward", but if you appeared 6 feet south of the North Pole your preserved momentum would be "Toward low orbit". Meanwhile that preserved momentum if you teleported to face north of the South Pole by 6ft would be "Into the surface of the Earth"... Definitely something important to consider! The game designers have stated that only the core books are "Canon for D&D" while all adventures and stuff are official only within their specific settings. This is called "Verisimilitude" and is the presumption one makes when dealing with a work of fiction. Any work of fiction. D&D isn't special in this regard. Unless specified otherwise, stuff just works normally. General Relativity is great in theory. [I]nudge nudge[/I] But we've learned a lot since Einstein. And we'll learn more. We already know that quantum teleportation is possible (Spooky Action at a Distance, FTW!) and we're learning a ton about different structures of reality that may eventually unseat our current understanding of physics based on quantum physics. Hence the desire for a Unified Field Theory. It may be that Teleportation is entirely impossible. But. That's where the Magic is, sidestepping all of our understanding of the requirements of physics, further modified by the Game Designers stating that momentum is, in fact, preserved (at least relative to the nearest planet) The spell doesn't say that... so... [I]shrugs![/I] The elemental plane of fire thing, I mean. What it -does- say is there is an "Explosion of Flame" which ignites things in the area that aren't being worn or carried. Why it would be selective I haven't a clue. Pretty much. [/QUOTE]

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