Re: cloaking ships

> > With a single,
> >well-placed fireball from a cloaked flitter (invis spells), all of the
> >weapons on such ships would be destroyed, leaving the slow-moving
> >vessiles venerable to long-weapons attack by elvish ships.
> <end snippit>
> That's a load of invis spells ain't it.  Unless there is a ship invis
spell.
> Does anyone have that spell in a  SJ book or already had a mage in their
> campaign research something along those lines.  I figure with the present
> books I have a Hallucinatory Terrain(mage apell /4th lev) might work if
> adapted to spelljamming(a thing that I do not think they had in mind when
> they wrote the 2nd ed PHB).  Otherwise I see it as having to burn a load
of
> invis 10'rad. spells and the first attack by the craft makes it so all
those
> spells have to be cast over.(Too much in my book unless the first attack
> does the trick, as in the case of the situation where the above snip came
> from).  What do you think?  What would it take to actually cloak a ship?
> What class of PC?  What amount of research.  I already have some ideas of
my
> own but I'd like to hear your opinions


As for cloaking a ship I found posting a couple of months ago that list
what a cloaking helm is. it was listed in a dragon magazine I never saw.
But here is a copy of the post Also this was present in the cloakmaster
series books 2 and 3


Here is a short description of a cloaking helm for the benifit of those

who don't have Dragon#159



Much the same a normal helm in appearance etc. Sold by the Arcane, so

bound to be very expensive.

Allows the mage to divert power from moving the ship into wrapping an

illusion of empty space around the ship. This prevents the ship from

being seen from afar, but doesn't effect the crew or spelljamming mage.

The only way to detect a cloak ship is ESP, or similare detection

spells.

If a cloaked ship passes with 1000 yards of another ship the cloaked

ship appears as a blurry spot in space, and light coming throught the

area is altered, creating a slight rainbow effect around the edges of

the cloak.

This is hard to see but can be spotted by a trained lookout (base 10%

chance).

The cloaks can be maintained for a maximum of 3 turns per day and can be

active only when the ship is at tatical speed. If the cloak ship attacks

by using ramming or missle weapons then the cloak is dissipated.

Gains a +4 bonus to suprise if attacking when cloaked though.

Value 350,000 gp.



Well hope that is useful for you. By the way in my campaign I altered

this to allow the ship to remain cloak as long as someone remained on

the helm, and the ship was at tatical speed. It could not however attack

while cloaked and had to drop the cloak before attacking. The ship with

the cloaking helm could however continue to remain cloaked as long as

was needed.



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