D&D 5E Custom ships

[Shrapp Hamnier]

What are things that can be added or modified on a ship to make it more usefull to a group of adventurers. I'm saying any ship can be made to be able to fly based on either what its made of or different spells or gear.


Ship... ........Cost............Speed...Crew...Passengers...Cargo (tons)
Galley.........30,000 gp....4 mph....80 ...........-................150
Carvel........20,000 gp.....4 mph....4............20..............100
Keelboat ...3,000 gp........1 mph...2..............6.................1
Longship...10,000 gp.....3 mph...40...........150.............10
Raft ............20 gp............1 mph...1 ............10...............1
Rowboat ....50 gp..........1 ½ mph..1 ............3................½
Sailing ship.10,000 gp...2 mph.....20 .........20..............100
Warship .....25,000 gp....2 ½ mph..60.........60.............200

Ship ...........AC...HP....Damage Threshold...Decks.
Galley.........15...500 ....20...............................2.
Carvel.........13..300 ....15................................2.
Keelboat....15...100 ....10................................1.
Longship....15...300 ...15................................1.
Raft ...........11....50 .......-..................................-.
Rowboaĺlt...11....50 ......-..................................-.
Sailing ship.15...300 ...15...............................1.
Warship .....15...300 ...20................................3.



Variations

• Extra decks
  • Full deck
  • Half deck
  • Quarter deck
• Skis
• Wings
• Sleeker design (extra speed)
• Extra propulsion
• Changing space
  • Less cargo, more cots
  • Less cots, more cargo
  • Separate passenger cabins
  • Luxury (comfotable) cabins
  • Secret storage
• Expand ship size
• Galley
• Brig
• Flight
• Submerging
  • Watertight “lid”
  • Windows (large)
  • Windows (small)
  • Hatch (person)
  • Door (vessel)
• Ramming
• Boarding/anti boarding
• Weapon slots
• Extra armor and hp

Propulsion methods

• Sails
• Oars
• Waterwheel/rudders (earth elemental, gnome invention)
• Air or water elemental with jet
• Enchantment; whole ship or part
• Haunting

Flight methods

• Baloons (gas, fire, air or fire elemental)
• Drift-wood
• Air or water elemental with jet
• Enchantment; whole ship or part
• Haunting

 

[Coroc]

You forgot the best thing:

Ballista and war machines

Make them exensive though and aplly a realistic Rate of fire

4d10 to 16d20 damage piercing or bludgeoning range 800 - 2000 ft damages everything in its path and with catapults it has an impact shrapnel effect if it does not hit anything solid. RoF 1 per 2 round for ballista to 1 / 5 rounds for a catapult cost 5000g - 80000g.

BtW your ship costs are to low in relation to other goods, add a zero (warship 250000g)

That is one of the things why I converted to silver standard.

 

[Shrapp Hamnier]

You forgot the best thing:

Ballista and war machines

Make them exensive though and aplly a realistic Rate of fire

4d10 to 16d20 damage piercing or bludgeoning range 800 - 2000 ft damages everything in its path and with catapults it has an impact shrapnel effect if it does not hit anything solid. RoF 1 per 2 round for ballista to 1 / 5 rounds for a catapult cost 5000g - 80000g.

BtW your ship costs are to low in relation to other goods, add a zero (warship 250000g)

That is one of the things why I converted to silver standard.

I actually do have a "weapon slots" near the end which would include things like balista. The actual weapons are their own thing (I'm also working on an expanded siege equipment list based on what they have on page 255 in the DMG). Yes one can add weapons to it, one can reinforce the front and add a ram to it, the ship could even be flown above something and then dropped (likely damaging the ship as well). I'm looking more for stuff to do to the ship itself to modify it, either as its own thing (aquire the ship and add it), or something that needs to be done wheen building thw ship in order to avoid costly renevations.

Also, the stats for Galley, Keelboat, Longship , Rowboat, Sailing ship, and Warship are straight from the DMG page 119, I modled the other ships around those (and added number of decks).

 

[Shrapp Hamnier]

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