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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HalWhitewyrm" data-source="post: 1625284" data-attributes="member: 4046">PDF product I'd (desperately) like to seeHijacking back a little to the original subject, here's one product I would love to see pop-up on RPGNow.com right now:A pdf (or series of pdfs) detailing sailing vessels: I want to see accurate (as historically as possible) deck plans, elevation diagrams, and cut-away diagrams for a variety of historical sailing ships like a frigate, galleon, caravel, man-o-war, etc. And it would be heaven-sent if the maps were declared OGC.Why? I find myself for about the fifth time in two years writing an adventure either set inside a ship, or heavily featuring a ship, and I cannot find good deck plans to use. I am not a mapmaker, let alone knowledgeable in maritime lore, so while I can make a map of a ship, it would be completely made up with no bearing on reality save from what I can glimpse from History International documentaries. I have found some products with deck plans, but they are usually only of a ship's upper deck (I'd like the lower decks as well), and they are mostly fantasy versions (elven this, dwarven that, etc.).If I were to do this product, or if I could order it to my specifications, I'd make this product a series of PDF releases, one per ship: frigate, galleon, man-o-war, etc. Each PDF would have deck plans for all decks on a ship, plus an elevation map and cut-away map, along with a concise introduction to the ship, a brief history (to put the ship in historical context), and some generic stats (real-life speed, weight, lentgh, width, crew, armaments, etc.) that a GM could then flesh out into numbers in his favorite system. Then I'd make the whole thing OGC (or at least the maps) so that, if Joe Freelancer wants to do a seafaring adventure and he needs a ship, he can extract the maps from the PDF and include the copyright in his OGL section 15.I would pay for a product like this anywhere from $5 to $8 per ship PDF (perhaps up to $10 if the quality is outstanding), and heap praises everlasting upon whomever made it.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Here's an idea. Let's see if anyone bites.</blockquote>

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