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<blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 1542861" data-attributes="member: 7533">Heya, PC, I've been doind quite a bit of piratey research for my next campaign, which will feature a flying ship.&nbsp; Here's my advice...Your typical pirate ship from the Golden Age of Piracy was a sloop.&nbsp; These ships had a single mast, with a fore-and-aft rigged mainsail, sometimes a square-rigged mainsail, a jib sail, and a sprit sail, though actual rigging varied widely from sloop to sloop, they all had only the one mast (sloops with more than one mast are schooners).&nbsp; They were normally between 40 to 60 feet in length and weighed in at about a 100 tons.&nbsp; As few as a half dozen to a dozen men could sail one, though pirate and military crews often had 40-50 men aboard (for boarders and gunners for the cannons).&nbsp; If you are using cannon, the typical sloop could might mount anywhere from 4 to 24 cannon of various sizes.I would suggest not having anything to counteract dispelling...&nbsp; It's a danger the crew must endure, and would encourage the crew to keep the ship at a minimum altitude.&nbsp; If the ship sails only ten or twenty feet off the ground, it and the crew won't take much falling damage if the effect is dispelled.Alternately, instead of Flying, give the ship the double effects of Levitation and Feather Falling.&nbsp; This does two things...&nbsp; First, though the ship floats over the ground, the crew must still sail the ship, and if the winds are not favorable, they may get slowed down or stuck entirely.&nbsp; Second, if an enemy casts Dispel Magic, they must over come two spells before the ships crashes from the sky...&nbsp; If the Feather Fall is dispelled but not the Levitate, then the ship continues on.&nbsp; If the Levitate is dispelled but not the Feather Fall, then the ship slowly floats down out of the sky.I can't honestly help with the pricing...&nbsp; I've never been very good at that.Oh...&nbsp; And if you haven't given the item yet, it'd be much cooler to make it a figurehead, than a keel.&nbsp; A figurehead of a pegasus, or a winged angel, or a valkyrie or something similarly appropriate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pbartender, post: 1542861, member: 7533"] Heya, PC, I've been doind quite a bit of piratey research for my next campaign, which will feature a flying ship. Here's my advice... Your typical pirate ship from the Golden Age of Piracy was a sloop. These ships had a single mast, with a fore-and-aft rigged mainsail, sometimes a square-rigged mainsail, a jib sail, and a sprit sail, though actual rigging varied widely from sloop to sloop, they all had only the one mast (sloops with more than one mast are schooners). They were normally between 40 to 60 feet in length and weighed in at about a 100 tons. As few as a half dozen to a dozen men could sail one, though pirate and military crews often had 40-50 men aboard (for boarders and gunners for the cannons). If you are using cannon, the typical sloop could might mount anywhere from 4 to 24 cannon of various sizes. I would suggest not having anything to counteract dispelling... It's a danger the crew must endure, and would encourage the crew to keep the ship at a minimum altitude. If the ship sails only ten or twenty feet off the ground, it and the crew won't take much falling damage if the effect is dispelled. Alternately, instead of Flying, give the ship the double effects of Levitation and Feather Falling. This does two things... First, though the ship floats over the ground, the crew must still sail the ship, and if the winds are not favorable, they may get slowed down or stuck entirely. Second, if an enemy casts Dispel Magic, they must over come two spells before the ships crashes from the sky... If the Feather Fall is dispelled but not the Levitate, then the ship continues on. If the Levitate is dispelled but not the Feather Fall, then the ship slowly floats down out of the sky. I can't honestly help with the pricing... I've never been very good at that. Oh... And if you haven't given the item yet, it'd be much cooler to make it a figurehead, than a keel. A figurehead of a pegasus, or a winged angel, or a valkyrie or something similarly appropriate. [/QUOTE]

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