Re: Spelljamer/Stormwrack

In <URL:news:local.spelljam> on Thu 23 Nov, Loki wrote:
> On 11/23/06, Olander <olander@?????????.net> wrote:
> > Stormwrack has the benefit of using the same statblock as the one presented
> > in the Arms & Equipment Guide.. but then offers a different way to apply the
> > statblock.
> 
> NOt quite the same, there are a number of differences that made me
> consider it a possibility fr SJ.  The shiphandling and seaworthiness
> traits foremost amongst them.
> 
> > Because of this, there are already two ships converted that you can use as a
> > baseline for converting over:
> > http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ae/20030821a
> 
> Love the CRosswinds Keep stuff, I use it as  a standard Astral event
> location as well as a possible origin point for newly incoming PCs.
> 
> > I was playing with it for a little bit and thinking how interesting the
> > Tradesman is, being almost always the first ship converted. It's in Spider
> > Moon, This article, and a number of other people's web conversions.
> 
> We sould try to pull togethr the various conversions in order to
> compare and contrast. It would make a good yardstick for creating a
> conversion system to adapt the original ships and ship cards.

I'm interested in what you come up with, and don't want to pour
cold (sea) water on your efforts, but...

The reason that I borrowed Stormwrack, and I and a couple of
other people looked at it, was with an eye to using something
very similar for SJ.  I'm certainly willing to go back and have
another look at it, but our initial opinion was that it looked so
different to SJ that you would be throwing away most of the
existing SJ stats, and almost all of the ship handling rules.

That is why we went for a 'minimal change' approach which altered
as little of the 2ndEd SJ mechanics, to attempt to produced 3rdEd
mechanics, as we could.

If you can develop a way of bending the Stormwrack mechanics to
bring them a lot closer to all the existing SJ stuff, I will
certainly be very interested!

If there is some way to use Stormwrack for ships on the sea, then
compatible SJ rules for ships in atmosphere and in wildspace,
that would obviosly have big advantages.

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