Re: Sorcerers and Helmsmen and 3e, oh my

I think you hit the nail on the head this the
ship-to-ship combat comment.  To me it's the Rosetta
Stone of SJ3E.  The changes that are made to make STS
combat work, in my opinion, have too big of a chance
of impacting other things to not be done first.

Just the opinion of a madman.

Later

Chis

--- Static <eshum@??????????????.com> wrote:
> Greets all,
>
>         Well, I'm mostly back now, and thought I'd
> reply to the various threads right
> here instead of in a hundred little posts.
>
> Re: Sorcerers
>         I'm of the "Sorcerers should use Serial
> Helms" school of thought.  3e, on
> the other hand, is making everything very
> "balanced", so, officially, I'd have to lean
> towards letting 'em use normal helms.  Of course,
> from what I've heard of the Psionics
> book, *psionicists* should also be able to use
> normal helms as well.  In other words,
> do what works best for your campaign/peace of mind.
>
> Re: Helmsmen
>         At first I liked the idea, but I've been
> swayed by the other side after
> reading the posts.  A helmsman prestige class is a
> bit over-the-top.  As to the
> question of how do you handle high level parties,
> well, the current SR system
> makes it hard, but not impossible.  My suggestion is
> simply to downplay ship-to-
> ship combat for high-level parties.  They should be
> fighting foes equal or greater
> in power to themselves, but that doesn't mean every
> merchant or patrol ship has to
> cause them great trouble.
>
> Re: SJ3e
>         Am I correct in understanding that people
> wantthe Council to come up with
> something and stamp it official?  I thought the
> point was for people to play around
> with conversions on their own, then we'll put 'em
> together on the list and stamp
> it official.  Of the 169 people who voted, 24% are
> already playing SJ3e.  That's
> over 40 people!  Where are *they* in this
> discussion?
>         I think our biggest stumbling block is still
> ship-to-ship combat.  All the
> other stuff -- proficiencies, skills, races, etc. --
> is small-frys compared to it.
> Without ship-to-ship all we have is a bunch of odd
> races sailing around on boats.
> Am I the only the one who thinks that?  (It could
> be.  Don't be afraid to smack
> some sense into me. (: )  If so, let me know and
> I'll start converting (or, at
> least, accepting conversions) post-haste.
>
> -Static
>
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