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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Unwise" data-source="post: 6668974" data-attributes="member: 98008">A few quick thoughts:A) Everybody makes a Wisdom based water vehicles check to remember all the instructions blurted out at them by the captain. Are they familiar with the halfling navel words, do they know their stern from port? "Don't stand there, look out for the yarbridge line, keep down or the yarnsaw will take your head off, stand clear of the filrigging if you don't want to lose a hand!" Having to all move from side to side to shift the weight, standing away from coils of ropes, remembering to stay tied off while having to madly move out the way of the frantic crew. There is a lot of room for error and getting knocked off.B) It does not need to be a PC falling off. A rope breaks, a wooden arm smacks some poor guy off, he is unconcious in the water and needs rescuing. The crew are busy holding the ship together. A cask of 20yr old brandy falls off the ship, you know it is worth a small fortune, but is it worth the risk?C) Some rival river merchants have added chains between the rocks up ahead. They are at the height that they will foul the rigging and mess up anybody on the deck, but let the deck itself go under.  They catch a glimps of it through a bend in the river, can they jump off, run across the rocks and get the chains removed by the time the ship rounds the bend and hits them?D) Some harpies are just waiting to scavenge anybody that falls off or pick off survivors if the boat sinks. They have no intention of fighting, but might act if they do in order to distract the crew and make them crash. They occasionally pretend to divebomb the helmsman. It makes sense that scavengers hang out around this area.E) They are doing fine, but up ahead another vessel is in dire straights. Their ship is going to be ripped apart soon if it turns on its side, the crew swepts down river. Not the mention the fact that the PCs ship will likely collide with them if nobody helps them. There are not enough good pilots to help both ships, the PCs need to step up if they want to save them.</blockquote>

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