Re: Space travel without helms

>         Quite right.  One reason I bring this up is that Seas of
> Blood states
> that the biggest warship (leviathan?) could bankrupt nations to build
> &
> maintain, but it only costs about 250k or so (one helm!).  Cheaper
> helms
> wouldn't balance them with the other magic items in the game.  So I
> was
> thinking about the natural 'physics' of the game, and if they were
> twisted such as anything under its own power will move quicker than
> normal, it would allow for 'cheap' ships (imagine tradesmen for only
> 25k!:)  Helms would be a luxury item rather than a necessity.

Has anyone figured out what a helm should cost in 3e according to the
rules?  3e has a completely revamped monetary system (so I've heard) so
revamping the prices of helms to bring them in line with other magic
items would not be out of line.

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