Re: New Material

I really like the idea of moving a ship across the dimensional
boundaries. It was one of the cooler abilities of the Pirates of Gith.

The Relics & Rituals book (put out by White Wolf) has a prestige class
called the Sea Witch. The Sea Witch's primarily class ability is Bond
with Boat/Ship. The more levels in the class the bigger the ship.. the
Sea Witch can cast any spell with the range personal on the boat. The
Prc has a requirement of 3rd level spells and profession (sailor)..
beyond that, the only thing I might change is upping the boat sized..
you need 10 levels to effect a ship over 100 feet long. Also, change the
Aquatic Wild Shape to like void wild shape or something.

Speaking of which.. has anyone put together something like a 'Void
Creature' template? Can be applied to any creature with the Aquatic
sub-type..allows that creature to move around in the void instead?

George "Loki" Williams wrote:

>I really like this idea, as a matter of fact it might just be the right set
>of complications to throw into my Unhuman War just to amp it up even more. I
>must confess though, I ma thinking more along the lines of a straight up
>PsiHelm rather than an elder brain as far as moving the ships. In my game
>they have only run across minor, major, series, and lifejammer helms. To
>spice it up, my elite force of Blue Scro (The Third Eye of Dukagsh, a team
>of psions and psychic warriors) may even find a way to translate a ship
>across the dimensional barrier. I have already laid some groundwork in this
>direction by having them spot an elven man o war on the elemental plane of
>air.
>BTW, if you  could email me a copy of the astral ships file I would be most
>thankful...
>Loki, DM
>Warriors of the Balance: The Rise of Dukagsh Campaign
>New Orleans, La
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>>I have a campaign idea for a three way brawl that
>>includes the Githyankis, Illithids and the Elves. So I
>>am reading and researching anything and everything
>>about this three races. Well, you know the Githyanki
>>hatred for the Illithids and they are off into a Jihad
>>against them. We find out that a portion of the
>>Illithid navy and nations are in the astral plane and
>>allow them easy access to distant spheres. Elder mind
>>pools of the Illithids on prime material plane even
>>extend to the astral plane in one article that I read.
>>
>>Well, it all started when the elves decided that the
>>individual sphere fleet would take years to grow and
>>the new incursion of humanoids are escalating day by
>>day. They have devised a new plan that calls out for
>>the fleets in other sphere to be used as
>>reenforcement. Their plan was to use the astral plane
>>to bypass the phlogiston and have ship arrive in days
>>and not months. They have already experimented with
>>magics that allow whole ships to be transported to the
>>astral place and back. They also experimented with
>>various astral plane helm and the best one so far is
>>the Illithid elder brains that the original
>>voidjammers used. They have now commissioned a study
>>for a gateway to the astral plane that would allow the
>>biggest Elven ships to pass into and out of the plane.
>>These networks of gateways to the astral plane would
>>be the new Elven ace in the hole.
>>
>>One of the few problem is that the astral plane is not
>>so empty as first thought. A portion of the Mind
>>Flayers fleet as well as nations lived in the astral
>>plane with their nemesis, the Githyankis. The passing
>>experimental elven ships power source were detected by
>>nearby outpost of the two races and they went to
>>investigate it. The power source, the elder brains,
>>are registering in both species psion minds when the
>>helms are active. The Illithids tried to recover their
>>property from the elves and attacked them. The
>>Githyanki attacked both parties, trying to destroy the
>>Illithids and the elves for incursion in their area of
>>influence. A three way brawl ensues and the elves were
>>expelled from the astral plane with the Githyankis and
>>Illithids following and attacking elven outpost on
>>each sphere where the elves returned. The Githyankis
>>and Illithids are on an even footing and they fight
>>where they meet each other. Including in this fray are
>>Githyanki rebels that are looking for the tomb of Gith
>>to counter the Githyanki's Queen, Githzerai agents in
>>their own ships hiring mercenaries to take advantage
>>of the situation and humanoids that are trying to
>>prevent the elven use of the astral plane.
>>
>>In my campaign my players might get involve as
>>mercenaries for any of the 6 groups involve or blunder
>>into a "galactic war". They might be also sent by
>>human groups to investigate a reported war in the
>>astral plane and in elven held space. With the
>>Githyanki's void cruiser and the Tomb of Gith
>>scenarios, I am getting a good feel for the campaign.
>>I also found Githyanki astral ships on The Dragon/
>>Dungeon magazine website, on their side bar.
>>[http://www.paizopublishing.com/dragon.shtml] If you
>>have any more information, please send them my way at
>>asibal_2000(at)yahoo(dot)com. If you have books to
>>recommend please let me know also.
>>
>>Ariel Sibal
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