Re: Small Ships

On Jan 11, 2004, at 7:56 AM, Ariel Sibal wrote:

> 1) I have noticed that Spelljammer lacks the small
> ships that should be dominating wildspace. The big
> ships are great but not all spacers could afford those
> kind of ship unless they stumble into a fortune.

Considering the cost of a helm, I don't necessarily find it
unreasonable that most ships are also going to be expensive. Dingies go
down fast under the fire of catapults. Spacefarers will need a fortune
to afford a helm in the first place.

That is solvable by creating helms that can move only smaller ships, of
course. Officially, there is also non-magical helms, a concept I to be
goofy myself (how do these work again?).

BTW, there are a number of smaller ships, such as leaf ships, arrows,
catamarans, corbinas, flitters, locusts, mosquitos, urchins, plus
others such as the yacht or damselfly if you don't mind going as high
as 10 tons.


> http://www.geocities.com/asibal_2000/spelljammer/sjtodo.html

I like the x-sail ship, though I do think it needs a new name.


> A) Transjamming Helm
> B) Phase-Helm

These seem better served as separate magic items rather than helm types.



Leroy Van Camp III
malacoda@????????.net
ICQ #20039817

" We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff
at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me."