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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BiggusGeekus" data-source="post: 224596" data-attributes="member: 1014">OK.First, breathe in and breathe out.Second, the most important thing is for your group to have fun.Third, most of that fun derives from storytelling and a "risk vs. reward" style of play.  That is to set up appropriate challenges, have the players "risk" their characters, and recieve a reward for good play.Fourth, you may have noticed I haven't addressed your problem yet.Fifth, it sounds like your player is already having fun and enjoying your game world!  Hoorah!  This is GOOD!Now.  Let's tear his plans into tiny shreds.1) You could rule that once Enlarge wore off the terms set by Shrink Item were no longer in effect.  2) His plans for making metal hulls is neat, but not that good.  There's a reason why metalsmiths didn't make swords by dumping steel into sword-shaped molds: the metal won't hold together properly.  His giant metal boats may very well crack under strain or use(*).  Seriously.   Just because something is metal doesn't mean it is automatically better than wood.HOWEVER!You may want to let him get away with it.  Why not?  It would put the party at the center of world-changing conflict.  That's what you want, right?Biggus Geekus* As a point of historical order: The USA experimented with a ship made of concete during World War 2.  The idea was to make lots of ships very quickly out of molds ... exactly what your elf is trying to do.  There was one prototype made and it worked, but the US scrapped it.  The ship was simply too brittle.  We were afraid that it couldn't take a hit.  Your metal-mold ships are going to be surprisingly thin.  They'll float, sure.  But a good dwarven ram or human balista will make a nice hole.</blockquote>

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