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<blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 9663832" data-attributes="member: 54629"><p>[ATTACH=full]405966[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Hi all!</p><p></p><p>So skycoaches are a common sight in Sharn. They’re like flying boats that work thanks to the magic of the Syranian manifest zone in which the city is situated.</p><p></p><p>And yet, no Eberron book has ever provided any game mechanics for them as vehicles. All I can find is a “map” of one as part of a larger map in Rising. Not even the 3.5e book, Sharn: City of Towers provides any mechanics.</p><p></p><p>Keith Baker even wrote a blog post about skycoaches (<a href="https://keith-baker.com/ifaq-skycoaches/" target="_blank">IFAQ: Skycoaches of Sharn</a>) without providing any mechanics – other than to say that they require a magical medallion.</p><p></p><p>What that blog post does make clear, though, is that KB (and I guess WotC) thinks of skycoaches as being like NYC’s yellow cabs. Namely, that PCs will only ever take rides in them – and maybe have fights in them – but won’t ever own one themselves.</p><p></p><p>And yet several official and semi-official adventures not only include skycoaches being privately operated but also make it easy for them to fall into the PCs’ hands. (Examples include the sample 1st level adventure in <em>Rising from the Last War </em>as well as the Oracle of War DDAL adventure “Song of the Sky”.)</p><p></p><p>As you can guess, my PCs have acquired a skycoach. Since I have no rules for how they work, I’ve told the players it will just be a narrative device to get them around the city quickly until I can figure out actual mechanics. They decided that the artificer would operate it, and they would install a skycoach dock on their home base.</p><p></p><p>Yesterday I got to thinking: what if I created a custom bastion special facility for the skycoach? Then they can have a hireling who maintains it. The question is: what sort of benefit would this facility have, what should the minimum level be, how much space should it take up, and so on?</p><p></p><p><strong>Would anyone like to help me a) figure out some vehicle mechanics for skycoaches and/or b) figure out some bastion rules for a skycoach dock special facility?</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><img src="https://www.enworld.org/attachments/1569757408362-png.114416/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="912x319" style="" /></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pukunui, post: 9663832, member: 54629"] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_7583.jpeg"]405966[/ATTACH] Hi all! So skycoaches are a common sight in Sharn. They’re like flying boats that work thanks to the magic of the Syranian manifest zone in which the city is situated. And yet, no Eberron book has ever provided any game mechanics for them as vehicles. All I can find is a “map” of one as part of a larger map in Rising. Not even the 3.5e book, Sharn: City of Towers provides any mechanics. Keith Baker even wrote a blog post about skycoaches ([URL='https://keith-baker.com/ifaq-skycoaches/']IFAQ: Skycoaches of Sharn[/URL]) without providing any mechanics – other than to say that they require a magical medallion. What that blog post does make clear, though, is that KB (and I guess WotC) thinks of skycoaches as being like NYC’s yellow cabs. Namely, that PCs will only ever take rides in them – and maybe have fights in them – but won’t ever own one themselves. And yet several official and semi-official adventures not only include skycoaches being privately operated but also make it easy for them to fall into the PCs’ hands. (Examples include the sample 1st level adventure in [I]Rising from the Last War [/I]as well as the Oracle of War DDAL adventure “Song of the Sky”.) As you can guess, my PCs have acquired a skycoach. Since I have no rules for how they work, I’ve told the players it will just be a narrative device to get them around the city quickly until I can figure out actual mechanics. They decided that the artificer would operate it, and they would install a skycoach dock on their home base. Yesterday I got to thinking: what if I created a custom bastion special facility for the skycoach? Then they can have a hireling who maintains it. The question is: what sort of benefit would this facility have, what should the minimum level be, how much space should it take up, and so on? [B]Would anyone like to help me a) figure out some vehicle mechanics for skycoaches and/or b) figure out some bastion rules for a skycoach dock special facility? [IMG size="912x319"]https://www.enworld.org/attachments/1569757408362-png.114416/[/IMG][/B] [/QUOTE]
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