Re: Spelljamer/Stormwrack

Well if memory serves me correctly and usually it gives me the wrong
order...
In SJ you have a air envelope over the whole ship not just the hull
same with the gravity well so things like section damage to the hull
and explosive decompression are kinda moot points in the SJ realm.
Now it could be used when vessels land on the high seas...
Or in regards to whose in where when a section gets hit so we can
see bodies get blown out the side... but math can be supplanted with
storytelling there...


--- Lawrence Morris <ray_morris@?????????.net> wrote:

> Loki <george.williams.iv@?????.com> wrote:    The main thing is
> the complication of using hull sections, something I
> am still on the fence about. On one hand it provides a little more
> realism and a way to sink a ship without having t smash it into
> toothpicks. On the other hand it looks cumbersome and could well
> take
> a lot of the fun out of combat.
> 
>   The main problem with the hull sections rules are that the hull
> sections do not have a standard size based on the way they
> calculate them. One ship might have 8 foot x 10 foot hull
> sections, while another could have 4 foot x 5 foot sections.
>    
>   This is caused by figuring the cubic feet of the ship and then
> dividing it among the square footage on the main deck. I fixed it
> for my game by calculating off of the square footage of the main
> deck and setting hull sections to 10 foot squares.
>    
>   In the two ship to ship combats I ran, the narrative rules in
> the early part of the book worked very well, capturing the feel of
> a pirate movie (as best as a game can) while still providing a
> good structure of rules. The hull sections provided a good amount
> of tension (when the summoned huge water elemental grabbed the bow
> of the enemy ship and it almost collasped . . . Oh the look in my
> player's eyes :D).
>    
>   I think it is a good system for conversion to Spelljammer. Just
> watch out for the math on figuring hull sections. :)
> 
> 
> Ray Morris
> 
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