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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cyronax" data-source="post: 5043172" data-attributes="member: 822">I ran a 4e campaign that revolved around airships. I used the airship in the 4e Adventurer's Vault (AdV) as the default for most airships, and would modify that default to represent higher and lower end types of ships encountered. My strong suggestion to you is to consider making the ship your PCs end up on as a MASSIVE vessel no where near as small as the AdV example. Also, make it able to withstand a lot of damage from possible attackers in-story. My group ended up getting attacked on two occaisions by multiple airships. Both times the enemies and the PCs tried to push each other off the sides of ships. A fall from several hundred feet is deadly, and 4e's proscribed single saving throw almost seems lacking in airship-centric situations. To help with this, I created an order of Griffon Knights that had 'launching and rooking areas' in the bowels of some of the Republic Airships that the party used. I also created what amounted to magic items that funcitoned as limited Backpacks of Feather Fall. Nonetheless, we had a TPK due in part to a PC getting pushed off the side of an enemy airship (and fell to his death after a failed save). The enemy airship then were able to bring down the PCs airship due to prolonged long range bombardment. My point is: be careful how you implement naval ideas from our real world with airships. And also take into account falls from heights. I built an extensive website for that airship campaign. I post it here, it'd be gratifying to know if it was useful for you: <a href="http://vicariusmusing.wikispaces.com/" target="_blank">The Spire and the Abyss - home</a>cheers.C.I.D.</blockquote>

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