Sailing Ship Scales

[garrowolf]

I'm still working on my sailing ship rules for Nexus d20. One of the things that I want to include is an image of different ships of different scales. Kind of like the scale comparisons in the basic rules of most games but of ships instead of creatures. This way players and GMs will have a sense of scale for these things.

Anyone seen anything like that?

 

[GMMichael]

I'm still working on my sailing ship rules for Nexus d20. One of the things that I want to include is an image of different ships of different scales. Kind of like the scale comparisons in the basic rules of most games but of ships instead of creatures. This way players and GMs will have a sense of scale for these things.

Anyone seen anything like that?

Stormwrack, D&D 3rd ed, has a table of each ship in the book, and the ship's complement (which includes passengers). It's not a visual comparison of scale (nor likely to be very accurate), but it's better than nothing.

 

[Ketherian]

Columbia games Pilot's Almanac has what you're looking for.
A brief web search shows that the supplement is currently out of print. Typically old issues can be found on ebay for a reasonable price.

I'm not sure - does anyone remember if Castles & Crusades has a supplement with this information?

 

[Stormonu]

I believe Of Ships and the Sea for D&D 2E had something like this, though they were top-down instead of side-shots.

 

[CarlZog]

Any number of general books on sailing and sailing ship history include the kind of comparisons you're looking for.

Here's a poster comparison from the later period of commercial sail: http://www.barewalls.com/i/c/507526_Merchant-Sailing-Ships.jpg