Re: Leroy's 3e

> Hey.  Just wanted to see if anyone else has done the
> same as me and come to the same conclusion - 1 ton in
> Leroys 3e ship stuff is six 5x5x9ft squares?  Lil higher decking
> than I prefer, but thats cool eh ;)

It doesn't have to be that high. I think I figured a hight of 7
feet.


> Leroy, if ya redo ya xls sheet
> netime, can ya put in a bit for calculating sizes of rooms,
> and maybe a variable decking height like I had inmy version
> of ur sheet that I sent ya?

I am not sure what you mean here. I no longer seem to have
a copy of the sheet you sent. It has been a long while since
I looked at it.


> Mate, I've had a kinda read, and so far so good, nice work
> as always!  Rekn you could put comments on the shipyard
> sheet to explain what materials etc are?  I know its all in the
> pdf, but its just good to be able to have a tooltip lol

I have no idea how you add a tooltip to a cell. If I did I might
very well do that. Perhaps you should share your wisdom. : )


> Are there any plans from BTM & The High Seeker Council to
> cannonise this?  It'd get my props thats for sure :)

There was some initial discussion of this, but I have no idea
what the current plan is. There are a number of factors, such
as 1. Whether Static is still interested. 2. Whether or not the
council is interested. 3. Whether or not I want it to be.
4. Whether anyone else other than you reads it and cares.


> Just wondering if Leroy or someone else would put all the
> tables regarding combat (MC etc) on a page for printout to
> paste over the ol SJ DM screen?

I had plans to put a bunch of the tables on a few pages
as a summary. So, I went ahead and did that. Each of
the two documents now has all of the tables used throughout
at the end for ease of reference.

I should be sending those new PDFs to Static tomorrow.
I actually made the new PDFs today, but I forgot to e-mail
them to myself before I left work.


> The other thing I was thinking was that with the weapons
> table (apart from adding dual ballistae etc), it might be better
> to have say 5d6 instead of 1d6x5, because people will think
> theyre only allowed to roll another 1 dice when they crit etc -
> I know most of us look at it and don't think that way, but if its
> 1d6x5 it's just easier to put down 5d6 lol, especially for those
> of us who are slack and will just setup something in OpenRPG
> to roll for us..

Well, the system isn't designed to work that way. 1d6x5
doesn't mean roll 5d6. It means roll 1d6 and multiply the
results by five. 5d6x5 means roll 5d6 and multiply the result
by 5.

I did it this way because I personally have no desire to be rolling
huge handfuls of d6's every ship combat. For fireballs and such
its not so bad, because it happens relatively infrequently. But
with ship combat multiple weapons may be hitting every round.

If someone wants to roll 10d6 instead of 2d6x5, they can.
Statistically it as virtually the same. It is just more dice
rolling than I would like to deal with.


> anyway - system looks great, but could we have some
> descriptions on the different materials please!?!?!?

The new PDF has descriptions of what the materials are.


> How about
> adding something for WHAT exactly an advanced ship might
> be able to do (maybe a list of possible funky stuff),

Not sure what you mean here.


> and even a
> section for the items that in 2e effected ship's stats etc,

Do you have an example of this? Magic? mundane? Spells?


Thank you very much for the feedback, Til. It is almost the
only real feedback I have recieved. I am glad you like what
you have seen so far.



Leroy Van Camp III
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