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Dragon Magazine #235 had a good article on ship mages. There are a few dozen spells in this and the next article on sea spells and such...

Hehe, Leomund's Many Life Preservers spell...

In setting reason. It's a relatively new item to the region, and while it's catching on, very few have any training or skill to handle...

if spell focii weren't so omnipresent i would say that stocking and preserving enough material components on a voyage for a caster to be...

You might go look at TSR Spelljammer for a variety of magic items (including a plethora of figureheads) that could be applicable to...

In my Freeport D&D pirate game for the city history I had a group of casters known as the Cerulean Circle who specialized in being sea...

I do like the idea of a sea god church blessing figureheads so the ship itself has magic resistance. Older editions had things like the...

Probably significantly more than the 2 gp per day for a skilled hireling, plus 300 gp for each casting of fireball.

For regular run of the mill merchants it's simply too expensive to hire wizards/sorcerers, after all those in need of money can make...

Introduce materials that are more resistant to fire, being put on fire? So the sails are more resistant to fireballs, but still can be...

- There might be international/cultual laws against using certain magic on vessels that is reinforced by sailing culture or by...

Once again, I feel as though we're trying to make sense of a game that doesn't really make sense when you apply the rules to a living...

If every ship has a level five mage fireball does become a problem. But there are ways to get around that -- Longbows with a range 4...

There have been many times throughout history when a weapon or tactic was devastating until countermeasures were enacted and I think too...

As powerful as a single mage is or can be, they wont be the only member aboard any ship. Training someone to use a musket would be...