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<blockquote data-quote="Emperor Valerian" data-source="post: 2370198" data-attributes="member: 15043">Well, I'm doing a campaign this fall that will have the sea as a central theme, (using the ship rules from Corsair, cannons allowed, and creating vessels as needed) as as such, there's going to be quite a few ships around.&nbsp; Human vessels have posed no problem... I'm basing them rouhgly around 16th/17th century ships.&nbsp; The problem has been the ships of the elves, hobgoblins, and orcs (the three other major seafaring races... gnomes appear here and there, but aren't big enough to have their own fleets).The elves I already have a concept for their ships.&nbsp; The elves in this world are tend to stay to themselves, but react angrily and raid human coasts when provoked.&nbsp; Their ships are small and fast, light in armament and using spellcasters as their main offensive weapon.&nbsp; However, I have no idea what constitutes a good elvish name for a ship.&nbsp; So when my players ask the name of the vessel they just captured, they'll get a blank stare from their DM.The problems with the orc and hobgoblin ships are not only that I have no ideas for names, but also no ideas for what these vessels would look like.&nbsp; I'd like them to be racially unique from the human or elven designs, but I'm not sure where to go with it... so I thought I'd pick everyone's brains for good ideas.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Emperor Valerian, post: 2370198, member: 15043"] Well, I'm doing a campaign this fall that will have the sea as a central theme, (using the ship rules from [i]Corsair[/i], cannons allowed, and creating vessels as needed) as as such, there's going to be quite a few ships around. Human vessels have posed no problem... I'm basing them rouhgly around 16th/17th century ships. The problem has been the ships of the elves, hobgoblins, and orcs (the three other major seafaring races... gnomes appear here and there, but aren't big enough to have their own fleets). The elves I already have a concept for their ships. The elves in this world are tend to stay to themselves, but react angrily and raid human coasts when provoked. Their ships are small and fast, light in armament and using spellcasters as their main offensive weapon. However, I have no idea what constitutes a good elvish name for a ship. So when my players ask the name of the vessel they just captured, they'll get a blank stare from their DM. The problems with the orc and hobgoblin ships are not only that I have no ideas for names, but also no ideas for what these vessels would look like. I'd like them to be racially unique from the human or elven designs, but I'm not sure where to go with it... so I thought I'd pick everyone's brains for good ideas. [/QUOTE]

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