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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 1685896" data-attributes="member: 13107">Forget inertia!Most folks expectation is that if you teleport to the top of a mountain, youshow up with no relative motion to the mountain, and no sudden chill tocompensate the added potential energy.  Or, assuming you are on a spinningglobe, that teleporting from the equator to the north pole doesn't zing youoff at a thousand miles an hour; if instead to the exact opposite side of theplanet, doesn't fling you tangentially at about two thousand miles an hour.My sense is that the spell does its best to put you in the most natural frameof reference at the target.That being said, there are problems.  What happens if you are in motion inthe initial frame?  Teleport, if able to compensate for other motions, couldeasily compensate for your own, but should it?  What happens if you teleportfrom one ship to another passing by and moving in the opposite direction?What if you miss and end up ten feet off the side of the ship?A neat solution would be for the spell to transport you between frames,that is, from your current frame to the <<frame>> that you memorized.Of course, you still have to decide what to do when the frame is an unfamiliarone.  Would you allow the choice an unfamiliar frame that included a motion?(I teleport this brick to that edge of the enemy troops, with, say,2,000 miles/hour of motion towards the troops.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> )</blockquote>

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