Re: Small Ships

> 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?).

I tried to solve that by using steam jet engine,
petrol based jet engine which is cheaper than magical
helms. I also use propellers, paddle wheels,
solar/mana sail, balloon/blimp/dirigible. These are
only asteroid belt ships since they take a long time
to reach even a close destination. I am also using a
spellengine helm that allows non-magic using pilots to
man the helm.


> 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.

I am trying to think and create more small ships. My
players wanted to have more control with their
characters. My players wanted to fly their own ship or
at least a fighter type ship rather than being just a
passenger.


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

I added a wheelship, a small ship. (Please no Detroit
Red Wing jokes. =))


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

I think the artist who created the ship should name
it. =)


> > A) Transjamming Helm
> > B) Phase-Helm
>
> These seem better served as separate magic items
> rather than helm types.

Yes, transjamming was a magic item before and I can
easily make the phase into a magic item also.


A.Sibal

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