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<blockquote data-quote="Wyvern" data-source="post: 444584" data-attributes="member: 2374"><p>I haven't read this whole thread; I'll need to read your vessel construction rules before I can make sense of it, and I want to get my character creation updates finished before I do that. However, just skimming through, there are a couple of things that stuck out which I can comment on right now.</p><p></p><p>1) As I mentioned in my comments on barsoomcore's piloting rules, vessel stat blocks ought to include a line stating whether they're capable of water landings, ground landings, both, or neither.</p><p></p><p>2) Hardness should not scale by size. A Colossal wooden object isn't any harder than a Medium-sized one, it just has more hit points. See p. 136 in the PHB for a clarification of the relationship between size and hit points.</p><p></p><p>3) Wis-based pilot checks are primarily used for three purposes: sailcraft, ballooncraft, and some large vessels (generally those of ocean-liner size and above). The reason Wis is used for these is that experience, good judgment, and being aware of your surroundings are more important in steering these kinds of vessels than good co-ordination and reflexes. It wasn't a clumsy pilot that steered the Titanic into an iceberg, it was an unobservant one.</p><p></p><p>I don't think that vessels which use Wisdom for piloting checks should also use it to modify AC and Reflex saves. However, I'm not sure Dex applies either. Frankly, it's just hard to imagine a star destroyer or a sky-galleon dodging attacks. If nothing else, I think that both the handling modifier and the turn modifier (which is based on maneuverability class) should be applied to AC and Reflex saves. What are your thoughts?</p><p></p><p>Wyvern</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wyvern, post: 444584, member: 2374"] I haven't read this whole thread; I'll need to read your vessel construction rules before I can make sense of it, and I want to get my character creation updates finished before I do that. However, just skimming through, there are a couple of things that stuck out which I can comment on right now. 1) As I mentioned in my comments on barsoomcore's piloting rules, vessel stat blocks ought to include a line stating whether they're capable of water landings, ground landings, both, or neither. 2) Hardness should not scale by size. A Colossal wooden object isn't any harder than a Medium-sized one, it just has more hit points. See p. 136 in the PHB for a clarification of the relationship between size and hit points. 3) Wis-based pilot checks are primarily used for three purposes: sailcraft, ballooncraft, and some large vessels (generally those of ocean-liner size and above). The reason Wis is used for these is that experience, good judgment, and being aware of your surroundings are more important in steering these kinds of vessels than good co-ordination and reflexes. It wasn't a clumsy pilot that steered the Titanic into an iceberg, it was an unobservant one. I don't think that vessels which use Wisdom for piloting checks should also use it to modify AC and Reflex saves. However, I'm not sure Dex applies either. Frankly, it's just hard to imagine a star destroyer or a sky-galleon dodging attacks. If nothing else, I think that both the handling modifier and the turn modifier (which is based on maneuverability class) should be applied to AC and Reflex saves. What are your thoughts? Wyvern [/QUOTE]
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