Re: cloaking ships

As for the debate on cloaking ships, it has always been my belief that the
hallucinatory terrain spell was used.  However recently I picked up Issue
235 of Dragon Magazine, which has a large article on the Shipmage. Although
designed for groundling campaings, I can see no reason why it can't be
carried over to spelljammer.  The article includes a large supplement of
SEA spells, including spells such as "Shield Vessel" & "Otiluke's Screen"
which creates protective barriers surrounding the ship, and "Repair Breach"
which regenerates1d6+1 points of hull damage per level; to name just a few.

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> From: Jeremy G. <theguys@????????-??.com>
> To: spelljammer@????.com
> Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] - cloaking ships
> Date: Friday, August 01, 1997 2:19 AM
>
>
>
> > > 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.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Darkstar
>
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> >From the Darkness we came.
>
> And to the Darkness we will return.
>
>
>
> I only kept this to Spring on the unsepecting P.C.
>
> Jeremy G.
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