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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7626958" data-attributes="member: 996">That'd've been the 1e answer, as I recall, casting from the back of a moving mount or a pitching ship's deck was out of the question.  A stately walk or a perfectly calm sea at best, /might've/ allowed casting.Nod.  I did run a long campaign that started with the PCs acquiring a pirate ship (actually I just got back to it, some of 'em just hit 26th level, the ship has wings now, and they're 'sailing' through the elemental chaos), but the ship-to-ship maneuvers and combats I handled as a skill challenge, each turn representing several minutes - enough time for a crew-served gun to complete it's full clear-load-fire cycle - with success either meaning escape (if that was the goal) or brining it to a boarding action, which would be handled as an ordinary combat. The 'guns' were magical contrivances, and they attacked ships (or Gargantuan creatures) at off-the-map ranges, doing a lot of damage, and then making much-lesser secondary attacks on the crew.</blockquote>