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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Dragon" data-source="post: 3753708" data-attributes="member: 1115">Urgent: Battleship stats needed!!It seems to be a common problem in D&D: - Why should one build an expensive castle that could be conquered or destroyed easily by magic means like Disintegrate, Fly, Gaseous Form, Fireball, Lightning Bolt, Rusting Grasp, Silence, Invisibility, Ice Storm, Summon Monster, Rock to Mud, Dimension Door,...?Wouldn't it be better to built a subterranean bunker complex (aka dungeon, as is often the case in D&D)? Therefore, castles in a D&D world should be as common as today on Earth (i.e., quite rare, often heavily damaged and rarely inhabited).- Why building wooden warships that are also expensive to construct and maintain, but easily destroyed by Fireballs, Call Lightning, Control Water, Disintegrate, Summon Monster, Ice Storm, Control Weather, Lightning Bolt, Wall of Force, Wall of Fire, Flame Strike, Warp Wood,...?These two problems increase with the power of the PCs.Now I'm looking for a magical warship that should be able to withstand the spells mentioned above. While it is possible to protect the crew with spells like Hallow and Forbiddance (expensive, though), other spells, especially Disintegrate (or worse, Sphere of Ultimate Destruction) are difficult to counter...My ideas for the ship so far:- The ship should be able to fly, but only at a low altitude (this makes Control Water useless to sink the ship).- It shouldn't be made of wood. A steel ship is hard to imagine in a medieval setting, though...hmmm...maybe Wall of Force does the trick (along with Sculpt Spell)? Or clouds + cloudwalking ability (see Silver Dragons)? Solid Fog? Something made/supported by Negative Energy (see Pirates of the Caribbean)? Living ship (like a flesh or iron golem...) with fast healing/regeneration?? Geez, a flesh colossus comes to my mind  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /> - No cannons. There will be two Thayan bombards on deck plus catapults and ballistae.- Crew: about 100 medium-sized creatures.- Sailing ship, sails resistant to energy (possible? Any spells to achieve that?).- Storm resistance, of course...- Size: some 300 ft in length and 70 ft. in width, to start with...it should be impressive and fear-inspiring...- Flying creatures as guards (no dragons, but something medium to large and nasty, maybe two average demons, fiendish dragonnes, nightwings, or ... ?)Any input, comments, ideas are greatly appreciated!</blockquote>

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