Re: CUSTOM: Spelljammer -=- The Next Generation

KOOL! I very much like.
hehe, I especialy liked the holy fighter, thanks for actualy using one
of my ideas (fighters in spelljammer!) ;)

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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 23:12:13 +1000 (EST)
From: "The Astronauts' Guild" <geckoes@???????.???.au>
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Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] - CUSTOM: Spelljammer -=- The Next Generation
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GODJAMMERS
The Godjammers are vessels whose propulsion system is god force. For

HOLY AVENGER STARFIGHTER
For example, a Paladin of Ptah could have a +5 Holy Avenger one-man
starship, which would basically be a sword-shaped hull with hilt
"wings",
covered in silver and able to float and fly at SR 4 or 5 by virtue
solely of
the Deus Vult - "God Wills It" power of Ptah. Of course it would only
fly off
when Ptah wished the Paladin to go on a quest, unless the Paladin was
high enough level to be granted a semipermanent spelljamming field
around
his ship as a boon from his god.
There are many similar vessels - Thor Mjolnirjammers, Chronepsis
"Kugelblitz" starfighters, etc.

JIHAD CLASS WARSHIPS
Jihad class vessels are spelljammer catamaran hulled battlecruisers. In
place of a Helm they have a High Fane to a deity, as appropriate to the
deity. It might be a place of beauty and light with stained glass
windows
and choirs; it might be a torture chamber with a blood-spattered altar
rock choked with cobwebs and chains. Constant prayers and/or sacrifice
maintain the motive force of the vessel, so whenever it is moving, its
religious services are being conducted, and as it is a warship in a Holy
War, these services regenerate clerical spells for the priests on board
quickly and allow divination and other rituals to be used incessantly to
provide "sensor information" for the craft.
Religions that utilise Jihad class warships almost without exception
teach that any crewmember, from most humble to most holy, goes straight
to the abode of the blessed should they die in the cause on board. The
vessels usually resemble a High Cleric's stronghold or cathedral mounted
on a circular, hexagonal or octagonal (or pentacle, trident, etc.)
platform of rock, with appropriate religious symbols, pennons, etc.
decking out the outer areas.
Evil and Good clerical effects are focussed through an enormous
mizzenmast in the form of the (un)holy symbol, so that space battles can
include gigantic spectral hands swiping each other's ships, silvery
white
Turning effects scattering an evil Jihad-class's undead crew, or baleful
black energies pouring through the chapel on a LG vessel, exploding its
inner sanctum and causing the whole vessel to delist.

WISHJAMMERS
A properly worded set of wishes can indeed create an Arabian Nights or
Mystaran spelljamming ship, unable to be adversely affected by the ire
of
the gods and goddesses. These "wishjammers" each have a unique drive,
which must have a unique fuel, such as chocolate biscuits, penguin
sweat,
gold coins, etc. This fuel is fed into a jade idol which takes the place
of the Helm and functions as if a furnace or artifurnace. SR is between
2
and 3 usually. Wishjammers are all on the small side since their
creators' limited mortal intelligences are unable to create a
spelljammer
much over a Tradesman in size.

PLANEJAMMERS
With the exception that these ornate, powerful and outerplanar being-
crewed vessels originate in an Outer Plane and are as comfortable flying
through the Planes as they are in the Prime's wildspace, they are very
similar to large "conventional" spelljammers. Beings unable to function
a
Prime deities build and use these craft for their own reasons. Some of
them have fallen into cutters' hands of course. Most of these vessels
would be classed as Furnace driven or Psihelm driven under the older
spelljammer rules. The cutters who use them mostly call spelljammers
"superannuated", ie old and old-fashioned.

CHRONOJAMMERS
The legendary and insane to some vessels that fly from 420,000,000 BCE
to
the far future and sometimes stop off in wildspace between Temporal
Prime
jaunts are almost all products of the time-exiled city-state of Pangea
in
the dinosaurian distant past. They include the Rosebud class time sleds
(crew 4, SR 1 in space, 100 years/turn in TP Man C E) all the way up to
the Melchizedek class Temporal Dreadnoughts, with Chronohelms or
Chronofurnaces generating the effects of a high-level Chronomantic spell
or "just" insanely powerful Psionic or Magical dimensional travel or
"warping" or "spacefolding" effects. Even the gods shudder at what the
creation of these vessels by the rogue Chronomancers portend.
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