Re: Assault 2 on the Spelljammer (was:SpelljammerMustDie! (Must it?))

Boris Karpa wrote:
> As per the critical hits, I think we need a new critical hit table for
> fighting the Spelljammer.  Can anybody compose one?
Yeah, the standard crit hit rules just don't make any sense vs. a vessel
the size of the Spelljammer. I think they probably didn't include a new
table because they didn't consider that anyone would actually attack the
ship and survive long enough to get a crit hit. I would suggest that if
the Spelljammer takes over 200 hull points of damage in one round roll a
d20. On a 19+ it takes a critical hit (if more than 50% of the damage
was caused by fire or smokepowder weapons such as great bombards it does
a crit hit on a 17+).
As for an actual table for what a critical hit does, that would take a
bit more thought. Some of the things which might be included are fires
starting, a random tower partially collapses (which of course does no
extra damage to the ship since the towers aren't considered in the hull
points, but it could kill anyone inside the tower), the ship flinches in
pain (each conventional weapon on board which fires in the next turn has
a 50% chance of missing, regardless of the attack roll, and the ship is
now facing a different direction, which could incidentally cause major
problems for attacking ships if they get caught in the wake of the
Spelljammer), maneuverability loss and a loss of SR are pretty standard.

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