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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5813491" data-attributes="member: 22779">Well, it was a book in Scarred Lands which doesn't have gunpowder or cannons.  Seeing an 18th century ship of the line, complete with gun ports as the image used for a dwarven warship does tend to be a bit jarring when you realize that that ship is far closer to the one my great grandfather sailed on than it is to the baseline assumptions of the setting.  Like I said, pay attention to the history of ships.  A bit of anachronism is fine.  No one, other than really anal people like me, will notice.  But, let's not have D&D adventures set in Greyhawk describing a sunken schooner near the pirate base (second adventure in the Savage Tides AP has this).  If the ships being used in the game are contemporaneous with airplanes, it's a bit outside the timescale for most D&D games.</blockquote>