Re: Ok, major problem: staircases are major headaches!

Well I've come up with another issue about this..

Ok, a SJ ship, made purely for Space travel and thus designed for gravity
planes...
Say the lower "upside down" deck was your galley, below the gravity plane.

Think what happens when it docks at say, the Rock of Bral...or
Waterdeep...BAM! all your upside down furniture/goods...pile drives THROUGH
your hull...or at least goes SPLAT on the hull.

TO me it seems this is an issue that needs sorting, it's inherently screwy
and makes Spelljamming not very practical. 

When I rebuilt the squidship I found about 2' of the main cargo hold would
be above the gravity plane. It just wouldn't be tall enough (8' ceiling
iirc) if I moved the floor up, and not rebuilding it all again *cry*.

I ended up deciding that because of this a small space below the cargo hold
would be *sealed shut*, why? Wlel it' s aballast hold, to offset weight of
the ram...now what's the problem with a ballast hold in SJ? Gravity planes!
So you have a hold full of sand and bricks, and the gravity reverses? Oh
my..that's gonna hurt...so I sealed it, no hatch.

I'm sorry but I think really, gravity needs fixed to be "normal" when a helm
is in operation, from bottom of ship up. *scratches head, shrugs*
This issue would totally KILL many ship designs, whale ship, lol, or
asteroid bases of hm forget name of the very tall nautloid-like vessel.
You encounter a bigger vessel of asteroid, and you are going to kill many
folk and wreck the ship.

I LIKE the idea of a gravity plane but the practicalities...urf?

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From: Spelljammer Setting Discussion
[mailto:SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com] On Behalf Of Adam Miller
Sent: 31 May 2006 21:18
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Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] Ok, major problem: staircases are major
headaches!

--- David Shepheard <david_shepheard@???????.com>
wrote:
> If Static or Night Druid are reading this I also
> think that it might be worth adding a list of simple
> nauticle terms (plus spacehand terms) to the 
> SJ3e PDFs to help people getting confused about
> stuff like this. Have a look at what Wikipedia has
> for an example of where to start:

Not a bad idea.  Sounds like a realitively easy task;
I'll get started on it tonight.  In the meantime, if
anyone has any ideas that they think should go in,
please speak up so we can cover everything.

Adam

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