Re: Capital Ships

At 12:53 PM 6/28/97 -0700, Leroy Van Camp III wrote:
>    Right, but the cannonical design system does not take into
>consideration something I am looking for in SJ: bigger ships
>(i.e. capital ships).  I wanted an additional level of MC to account
>for ships that would not, as I see it, move in the same manner as an
>MC F ship, so I added MC G

I've always wanted to include big ships into SJ, and have done so with my
Runedarspace campaign. I basically ignored the fact that there were no
ships larger than 100 tons(with the exception of larger citadels) and went
ahead and designed the greathelms which are specifically  created to power
large ships. The biggest ship I've created is a 1200 ton carrier. I know
some people are doing a double take on that, but I've always thought you
shouldn't be constrained by the rules if you want to enjoy the game. "You
can't do that because the rules say so!" just doesn't cut it for me.

I based the ship on an AOL user's campaign he posted to TSR Online at AOL.
He has a ship that is 2000 tons!

As a side note, I enjoyed your post on the new ship construction rules.


Toby Mekelburg
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