Transmutation Query...

[Christopher Loree]

Okay, so I have a character who has an Alchemy power that allows him to transmute any type of solid, liquid or gas into any other solid, liquid or gas.

With the dice he's got, the amount of mass he can affect is 800 lbs. 

If he wanted to turn Air into Iron, for example does that mean...

A) He can turn 800 lbs of air into 800lbs of Iron?

or...

B) Those 800 lbs of air (which would cover an enormous area) would become a gigantic chunk of Iron weighing hundreds of tons, given that 800 lbs of air is probably several hundred (or thousand) feet by several hundred (or thousand) feet, by several hundred (or thousand) feet in size.

[James Mathieson]

I would argue for the simplest physics - 800 pounds -> 800 pounds. You are converting a given amount of mass, not volume. So 800 pounds of air, would transmorph into 800 pounds of iron, with the GMs discretion of effect - one block of iron, a rain of iron particles, etc.

 

James

[Shane Ivey]

I would argue for the simplest physics - 800 pounds -> 800 pounds. You are converting a given amount of mass, not volume. So 800 pounds of air, would transmorph into 800 pounds of iron, with the GMs discretion of effect - one block of iron, a rain of iron particles, etc.

I agree. The power capacity is for mass, not volume.

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