Re: Ship atmospheres and canon material

The inertial damperner effect is actually covered by the rules. so is the
issue of acceleration and suden drops from spelljamming speed. and it states
that no effect is felt from either of these action IIRC.
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From: Buddy Murphy <buddy@????????????????.com>

> I have always had questions about the basic spelljammer concepts.  For
> instance, how is a ship "thrusted" forward.  Galleons are supposed use
their
> sails, but then how does a viper get forward movement.  If the sails are
> pushing it forward, shouldn't there be sails on the bottom (otherwise it
> would pitch over and just spin).  The air envelope would have to be held
in
> place until a very low speed, or the crew and anything else not tied down
> would be blown off the deck.  What if the gravity plane didn't extend
beyond
> the ship itself.  Thus if a object was "dropped" off the deck, it would
> immediately be affected by the external gravity(water would drip from the
> bottom of the ship).  If there is no gravity, they could float just off
deck
> (until the ship changed course, then the object would fly off on the
> original course and speed).  The things on the ship must be under the
> influence of a (borrowed from Star Trek) Inertial Dampener, or else the
> first time you jump to spelljammer speed the crew would be about an inch
> thick on the back wall.
>
> Sorry if I'm getting SciFi-ish but they take into consideration a lot of
> real world issues.  But to DM this campaign setting properly you have to
> know how and why things work.
>
> Anyone got the answers ?