Re: Why Big ships?

I beg to differ. Now, aside from the fact that the ship is dragging enough
air for the crew to breathe for the better part of a year-(counting
fouled)-and that fire can still burn in a deadly atmosphere...
A fire that is completely enclosed in a house won't run out of oxygen to
consume before reducing the house to a smoldering ruin.

I'm not saying that a certain amount of air isn't getting in from outside,
but generally not enough will get in to make much of a difference unless the
doors or windows are open. If I could smother a fire just by keeping it
locked in one room, and it wouldn't do over-much damage to the room, I think
fire would be a much less dangerous thing.

As it stands in the rules, fire is extremely dangerous in SJ. Supposing I'm
trying to destroy a 60-ton, flammable vessel; I could start one fire every
round, with a torch, say, and have the ship destroyed in under a turn.


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>Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] Why Big ships?
>Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 06:26:23 -0700
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> > I bet fire would still be the big ship killer though! :)
>
>I disagree.  It would be the big crew killer.  It would probably die
>from lack of oxygen to consume before destroying the whole ship.
>Ramming is the big ship killer in SJ.
>
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