Hurricanes in your Game World?

[mythusmage]

Actually, no. The area of the spell is a '2-mile-radius circle'. That's not a sphere, it's a circle, and thus extends all the way up to where 'weather' exists.

And since weather extends down to the ground, and thus exists at ground level ...

 

[Sejs]

I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one, Mythus. As I see it, it's good in a reactive sense (to stop weather from being overly devistating), but very situational in an active one. As such I don't really see it being more powerful than Limited Wish, Simulacrum, or Plane Shift for example.

 

[mythusmage]

I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one, Mythus. As I see it, it's good in a reactive sense (to stop weather from being overly devistating), but very situational in an active one. As such I don't really see it being more powerful than Limited Wish, Simulacrum, or Plane Shift for example.

Not really, but I see I shant persuade you till you've been through at least a Category One.

BTW, I have been through the outskirts of a tropical storm, so I do have some experience with something short of a hurricane. (Sort of like a supercell, but without all those damn tornadoes.)

 

[atom crash]

Heck, we're still getting pelted with rain and flash flooding in central Alabama. I'm almost certain it's due to storms that were pushed in by first Dennis and now Emily.

Using spells -- even 7th to 9th level spells -- to stop a hurricane just shouldn't be possible, in my mind. This is one huge force of nature. You might be able to stave off some of the effects but surely not all of them.

It's like Superman stopping a speeding locomotive. Sure, he can stand in front of it and just stop the engine from moving forward. But can he stop all those other cars from derailing when the engine suddenly comes to halt?

And I still hold that druids would be hesitant to employ these tactics, because they understand that destructive weather is just part of the balance of nature.