Favored Terrain: Water


Rules Questions


Does it count as "Water" when you're aboard a ship?

Just checking. :)


The terrain is defined as "Water (above and below the surface)" so yes.


That's what I would've figured, but stranger things have happened than the PTB saying, "Nope, you've got to be in the drink." :)

Thanks!

Scarab Sages

Redblade8 wrote:

Does it count as "Water" when you're aboard a ship?

Just checking. :)

Depends where the ship is (ship is on the water, right?), but yes in most cases.

For a very, very large ship (floating city), the GM may argue that it is an urban environment, rather than water.


Murdock Mudeater wrote:
Redblade8 wrote:

Does it count as "Water" when you're aboard a ship?

Just checking. :)

Depends where the ship is (ship is on the water, right?), but yes in most cases.

For a very, very large ship (floating city), the GM may argue that it is an urban environment, rather than water.

My understanding is that "rather than" isn't a valid argument with respect to terrain, as something can explicitly be more than one type of terrain. (For example, see the wording of the ranger's favored terrain ability: "If a specific terrain falls into more than one category of favored terrain, the ranger’s bonuses do not stack; he simply uses whichever bonus is higher.") A river in the middle of a forest is both water and forest....


Murdock Mudeater wrote:
For a very, very large ship (floating city), the GM may argue that it is an urban environment, rather than water.

So if the Eye of Abendego suddenly spits out the USS Nimitz*, check.

*(Final Countdown 2: The Countdownening)

Scarab Sages

Orfamay Quest wrote:

My understanding is that "rather than" isn't a valid argument with respect to terrain, as something can explicitly be more than one type of terrain. (For example, see the wording of the ranger's favored terrain ability: "If a specific terrain falls into more than one category of favored terrain, the ranger’s bonuses do not stack; he simply uses whichever bonus is higher.") A river in the middle of a forest is both water and forest....

I agree, they can be two, or more. I was thinking of a very very large ship, large enough to be its own city. I would just call that urban (at least until it sunk...).

A smaller floating urban environment would qualify as both types in my eyes.

Silver Crusade

If you had a fantasy city ship/cruise liner it would be Water and maybe Urban/Underground, normal ship it would be Water, and ship on water on another plane would be Water/Plane.

As long as it's on the water you get Water.

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