Re: What System for Ship Combat do you use for 3E?

I have not tried 3ed for Spelljamming, I'm still using
2ed rules for that, but i had a player in the 3ed
regular D&D game who had a +15 to Spot checks. If he
was there, i only had him roll to see if he rolled a
1. I could never hide anything from him. I sometimes
had to impose truely horendous negatives just so he
couldn't waltz through a dungeon blithely.
Lea
--- Brian Brousseau <all_are_not_lost@???????.com>
wrote:
> >Spot distance rule sin 3rd Ed are crap, pure and
> simple. penalty for EVERY
> >10 feet and you couldnt see anyone :> which flies
> in the face of logic,
> >make
> >it 10 YARDS and it works better.
> >Also ships are *huge*. Wonder how many folk have
> every actually been out of
> >their houses, hm? ;) You can spot a ship, a van, a
> tree etc at up to 2
> >miles, easy, and thats without elven eyes ;)
>
> Keep in mind that you can give bonuses for spotting
> larger things like
> ships.  And Spot is more for noticing something.  If
> you are actively
> looking for something, it's Search.  Once the
> lookout has spotted the enemy,
> everyone else can just look in the direction he is
> pointing (and make a Spot
> or Search check of their own if the ship is hard to
> see) and see the ship.
> There is a difference between what you CAN see and
> what you DO see.  That's
> what Spot is for.  The GM shouldn't make players
> roll for things that they
> could obviously notice without being especially
> alert (bonfires at night a
> mile away with no other lights around and no
> intervening terrain to block
> line of sight, for example).
>
> Brian
>
>
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