Airships with planar drive [Planejammer?]

[JPL]

Last night I was thumbing through "Spelljammer: Shadow of the Spider Moon" and I thought...I've always wanted to do some kind of Burroughsian space opera.

Today, I notice Bastion Press's Airships.

And my thought is...one of those smart guys from Halruua finally takes the airship to the next level and installs a planejammer. Swashbuckling high adventure across infinite new worlds ensues.

My question: has this been done already?

 

[Robbert Raets]

Basically, this was 2nd Ed. Spelljammer. Crystal Spheres, anyone?

But with the Vehicle Rules from Dragon #294/A&EG come planar sails and air keels, so....

 

[JPL]

Hoo-hah! I have that Dragon. I can go home and look that up.

I'm thinking that the planejammer either takes you directly from plane to plane (like a portal), or that the ship has to cross through the Astral Plane to get from place to place.

 

[The Goblin King]

Hoo-hah! I have that Dragon. I can go home and look that up.

I'm thinking that the planejammer either takes you directly from plane to plane (like a portal), or that the ship has to cross through the Astral Plane to get from place to place.

Thats pretty much what I'm planning on doing too. I want my campaign to be focused on the material plane but still have interplanetary travel. The navigator makes a Knowledge: Astrography check. The DC depends on how far away the target planet is. The planar sails create a temporary conduit through the astral which translocates the ship. How close they get depends on the navigators check.

 

[barsoomcore]

Or you could drop in at The Cosmonomicon forum here at ENWorld. We're building a set of rules for aero-spatial travel, including spelljamming and all that good stuff.

It's not complete yet, and work proceeds slowly, but there's enough there to get you thinking. Check it out!

 

[Angcuru]

Sounds a lot like what we're using in my current game. The ships function much like regular airships, but have basically a hover/mini-jet engine powered by a big crystal, and can jump between the planes whenever required. Very useful if you're fleeing from huge amounts of evil dudes who suddenly take over the world with no explanation.

 

[s/LaSH]

Airships are always cool. Passage to other worlds? Cooler. Don't have rules yet, but...

 

[trancejeremy]

See "Rogue Mistress" for the old Elric! RPG by Chaosium.

The Rogue Mistress is a planar travelling galleon. It's a campaign book with several scenarios, ranging from fantasy to post-apocalypse to science fiction to elizibethan England (sort of. An alternate one).

It's a bit too rail-roady for my taste, but it's pretty neat, all in all. And it's easy to convert to d20, as it's done in BRP, which is 70% like d20. (I wouldn't recomment trying it in BRP, as it's very very deadly. I lost almost the entire party in the first scenarios, and the rest in the second.)

 

[Hand of Evil]

I don't think in the way you mean. DragonStar has an engine that pushes ships through the ether plane as well as the teleportion engine.

 

[Marimmar]

See "Rogue Mistress" for the old Elric! RPG by Chaosium.

True that would be a fine adventure for a mid-level party.

~Marimmar