Re: Places: Dragon Rock Map

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 17:27:38 +0100, Marlon Richert
<M.M.Richert@???.???????.nl> wrote:

><< i think i "typical" pirate ship should have approximately in the same
size
>than an average merchant ship. ...or do i miss something?
>>>
>
>Yeah, the thing you're missing is that pirates usually hijacked the
merchant
>vessels they captured and took them home.

that way, the pirates would have several problems:
- they have to operate TWO ships and thus would need 2 crews. i don´t think
it´s possible to force the whole captured crew to maintain the ship (the
know that at the destination they are either killed or sold into slavery or
worse (neogi/illithids). how many pirates are required to control the
merchants crew? provided not too many died during the battle, the
additional crewmen on board need more air - perhaps more than the ship has.
- the pirates could kill the whole crew, but still have to operate to ships
now. should they meet another spelljammer during the return voyage, they
could not defend either ship. besides, pirates who regularly kill
everything in their path might leave no witnesses, but i think that this
strategy would provocate a harder and quicker response from other
powergroups than the usual "taking of cargo and leaving crew and ship fo
good", but i might be wrong here...