Flying "Man-O-War" map

[FreeTheSlaves]

I am putting together the third modular adventure in our new round-robin campaign and it centres on a flying ship that is spawning varguoille(sp?) plagues to punish lands that resist invasion.

Thing is, I'm unsure of a standard warship's layout (which I'll modify for this ships special feature). I am thinking of a large sailing ship, about 16th century in appearance with multiple decks and masts.

Does anyone have an layout maps handy? I can handle most formats for a pc.

Thanks in advance. FTS.

 

[Privateer]

In the WotC site there's a downloads section with Spelljammer ships. Some are exotic, and one of them (the Galleon?) looks fairly normal/authentic.

 

[FreeTheSlaves]

Great stuff!

With the map done I can do the crew and loot, thanks again.

 

[Pbartender]

Here's the tricky thing about ships of that era... They never really had a 'floorplan' per se.

Almost all of the interior walls were semi-temporary 'bulkheads' that could be easily removed, or at least quickly knocked down, to make space for the fighting crew and cannon during ship-board combat. It was not uncommon, for example, to have one or two chase guns sitting in the middle of the captain's cabin.

So as long as you have the general shape of the ship, you can rearrange most of the interior bulkheads to form as many or as few cabins of almost any size as you like.

 

[FreeTheSlaves]

I noticed that when I watched "Captain and Commander". They were taking down walls and I think it was the kitchen that got converted into the surgery. More to the point, I was really after a baseline lay-out to save time, I much prefer making up npc's and generating cool loot.

The lower decks are going to be set up for prisoners in chains to be restrained and once the vargouilles have done their evil, the gun-ports will be opened after sun-down (custom external mechanism) to release the spawn. All crew will be out of sight at this point.