Angelfish ,
Crab-Ship ,
Sunfish
I have a few more to post in the near future....
We also conceived, but never finished designing, a Crossbow Ship, shaped like a giant crossbow, that could fire an enormous boarding pike at an enemy ship or simply use its main weapon as a titanic ballista against space beasts.
We were also trying to work out making the crossbow bolt a sort of boarding shuttle-ram, with a single-man cockpit near the feathers, so that you'd puncture the other ship's hull and then leap out to board the ship. The problem, of course, was going to all the trouble of having this giant crossbow bolt, just so that a single person could board the enemy. Plus, if you missed, your guy would go flying off into space.
We ultimately settled on a Flying Dagger, which was a highly maneuverable single-person fighter with a tactical helm in the pommel, that could zip around and cut the enemy's rigging before finally landing or ramming for boarding. We thought it would be cool for the enemy to suddenly see a squadron of giant daggers flying at them from across space.
And I'm not even going to mention the idea for a Gnomish Whirlygig, with its giant, pedal-driven eggbeater weapons out front...
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On the related subject of ship design, has anyone ever mentioned the idea of a Helljammer, powered by infernal flames from the nether planes? (To traverse the Phlogiston, it would switch to a souljammer helm, which would suck the spirit force from a mortal in the same way that a lifejammer helm uses a creature's life force.)
One related idea was that there might even be a Helljammer (great ship) counterpart to the Spelljammer, which perhaps would be the husk of one of its deceased predecessors stricken by demonic possession (say, by a pit fiend or the like). I'd wanted to work that idea into my campaign for a long time, but never had the chance.
Pax,
Krad
Figure i will link 3 of ships to the thread ...
Angelfish ,
Crab-Ship ,
Sunfish
I have a few more to post in the near future....
Very Nice all three, I really should try and convert the ships of SpellJammer to Airships and see what I can come up with.
First, here's my quick conversion of basic ship stats:
Ship Hit Points = (10 + "material bonus") x tonnage
Ship Armor Class = 10 + "material bonus" + "size modifier" + "maneuverability bonus"
I came up with a small set of tables with the bonuses and modifiers so that smaller means harder to hit, more maneuverable means harder to hit, better material means harder to hit/damage (basically, more like regular AC). Better material also means more structural strength (hit points) for the ship.
The Hive
A hammership that looks like it is covered in canvas, with a dozen large holes in each side. Out of each hole flies a black and gold striped goblin blade!
Hive: Hammership
HP: 660; AC: 7 (dense wood); MC: D; SR: 5 (standard helm)
Gutted (+15 tons cargo space), Hull Thinned (+12 tons cargo space)
Armed with 2 heavy catapults (4d20 damage each), 1 heavy ballista (3d20 damage)
[decent sized ship, but not the real dangerous part of this set-up]
Hornet: Goblin Blade (24 of these are kept inside Hive)
HP: 30; AC: 23 (iron); MC: A; SR: 1 (tactical helm)
Armed with 1 light ballista (1d10 damage)
[slow, but incredibly maneuvable and incredibly hard to destroy while they pepper their target with dozens of ballista bolts]
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Original Items: 27 and counting
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