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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 4283428" data-attributes="member: 39593">Pit traps and ships don't really work together.  The closest thing is an unbalanced hatchcover.  And with a pirate ship you're talking about say 10 feet, 15 or a bit more only on the largest pirate ships, most tend to be largish sloops after all (Not sloops in the modern usage).  As for live jellyfish, sure.  They'll survive a for some time out of water.  But the jellyfish itself is unnecessary the sting-cells will last a long time even after the rest of the jellyfish dries out and dies.  They'd be more likely to cut off the sting tentacles and fill pots with a mush of seawater and preserved tentacles.  Also cone snails, those little b#$%#$ have a truly evil poison and I see kobolds using live cone-snails in pots as well as their poison on blades.  Chunks of coral would act much like caltrops, breaking on the deck and being a hazard to footing as sailors generally went about barefooted.Also remember to take advantage of the SIZE of kobolds.  You can pack a crap-ton of kobolds onto even small vessels.  To use an example from fiction have you ever read O'Brian?  The little brig-sloop he takes charge of in Master & Commander was about 65ft long overall discounting sprits & spars, displacement of maybe 130 short tons.  This would have been on the small side but it's a good example.  On that ship you're talking a total crew of roughly 80! humans.  Now consider that a kobold is roughly 2.5ft tall and 1/4 the mass of a human.  Consider how many you can cram into the same amount of space.  And they'll probably divide the decks to about half-height.  A submarine would actually be feasible in D&D terms.  Google for stuff on the CSS Hunley (sp?).  A series of items that cast unseen servant (or ritual equivalent for 4e) could power the crank without taking up air.  Allowing the crew to keep activity and oxygen use to a minimum.  There are spells in AU that refresh/reoxygenate air as well.  I can definitely see a kind of 20,000 league-ish kobold submersible operating out of an underground base and terrorizing shipping.</blockquote>

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