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I've been contemplating a sea adventure (sort of a Golden Voyage of Sinbad meets Hurratio Horneblower). With multiple dungeons spread out on land, underwater etc. This will involve some needed rules related to boat on boat battles.

Curious what can be gleaned as BTB regarding combat related to sailing and oared vessels, and what rules DMs have come up with to make combat somewhat consistant as it relates to sea adventuring. Has anyone brought in outside sea battle rules from other games to 1E?

For instance, 1. what AC do you give a ships hull typically and why (lets say a medium sized merchant ship)?
2. when you assign HPs is that for each general area or spread out over the entire length?

3. How do you handle speed factors, balistas and catapults (what sort of damage would a boulder hitting the deck do exactly to the integrity of a ship? etc.

What sorts of things have you experimented with (greek fire, ramming etc.)

Mostly I've just dealt with what is in Dragon #116 (Dec 1986), crews provided by Dragon #107 (Mar 1986).

I haven't worried about getting all Traveller-level gearhead detail-obssessed.

I'd love to have a copy of that movie poster.

- Wheggi

Blackbat242 wrote:

Dragon 116

Blackbat is spot on, a brilliant article.

This link may be of some value

http://backtothekeep.blogspot.com/

Wheggi wrote:I'd love to have a copy of that movie poster.

- Wheggi

No kidding. I'd never seen it before.

vikingv wrote:This link may be of some value

http://backtothekeep.blogspot.com/

I don't see a ships battling post or info. Is it buried somewhere in that blog? Thanks!

The Thieves Guild rpg has a good hardcore old-school system which inspired the ship record sheet in CDD4. I also quite like the GDW Manowar mechanic where rolling dice into the box top doubles as a hit location chart.