Re: SPELLJAMMER Ship sizes

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From: "Charles Sykora" <charlesdsykora@???.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 1:00 AM

> Alternatively, you could  rationalize that unaccounted-for spaces are 
> simply 'dead' volume that  contains only air and that any attempt to 
> utilize the space would  disrupt the fragile magic that makes the ship 
> viable as a space craft  (remember, we are talking about wooden hulls that 
> somehow retain an  air volume, are powered by mystical forces, and steered 
> by some  arcane relationship between rigging and crew activity).

Ships used by spacefarers are not magical. The only magic involved in 
Spelljamming is the transfer of mystical energy (from memorised spells) into 
motive power. Gravity and air envelopes are natural laws. You *could* put a 
helm into a barn and fly that into space. The barn might have a random 
gravity plane and would probably have few hull points and poor 
manouverabity, but it should have gravity somewhere and it should have as 
much air as a ship of equal displacement.

Your other rational is the best one: hull designs influence the location of 
the gravity plane and the manouverability class.

David "Big Mac" Shepheard
Virtual Eclipse Role Playing Club
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