I've mentioend around the boards that I have started Savage Tide on the 20th January. My players had a blast. Hey, even I had a blast running it!
As my players are wont to do, they have taken this campaign and run with it in their little teeth. I expect 'Captain' Jacob Gold to fleece Lavinia Vanderboren out of both her virtue and the deeds for the Blue Nixie. Blaggards, Bounders and Cads the lot of 'em.
Which brings me to my topic: They really want to get amongst the high seas and do some ship-to-ship combat. I am going to go and buy Stormwrack, but I wanted to know does anyone know of a source (or multiple sources) where I can get some good floorplans for sailing ships? I saw the thread on Darkmaiden's Dream, but I wanted to have a bit of diversity.
Any help guys?
I've mentioend around the boards that I have started Savage Tide on the 20th January. My players had a blast. Hey, even I had a blast running it!
As my players are wont to do, they have taken this campaign and run with it in their little teeth. I expect 'Captain' Jacob Gold to fleece Lavinia Vanderboren out of both her virtue and the deeds for the Blue Nixie. Blaggards, Bounders and Cads the lot of 'em.
Which brings me to my topic: They really want to get amongst the high seas and do some ship-to-ship combat. I am going to go and buy Stormwrack, but I wanted to know does anyone know of a source (or multiple sources) where I can get some good floorplans for sailing ships? I saw the thread on Darkmaiden's Dream, but I wanted to have a bit of diversity.
Any help guys?
Not to be too stickler-ish, but usually we call them deck-plans when we're referring to a ship. (Sorry, we old sailors sometimes get that chalkboard-scratch feel when we hear nautical malapropisms ;)
Anyhow--Stormwrack has stats for a goodly number of standard ship types and deckplans for a caravel, a keelboat, a pinnace, a cog, and a magical "theurgeme". Why they didn't include a galley deckplan is beyond me--after the caravel I'd say it's the second most common D&D ship. The "Seafarer's Handbook" (Legends and Lairs) is not as nice a product as Stormwrack, but includes a much larger selection of ships and deckplans, about 40 pages worth, probably about 15 or 20 different ships, some standard medieval ships, some very interesting magical ones. You might do an online search with the topics "naval architecture," and "ship design," and you might also check out websites connected to various maritime museums. These wouldn't be DnD ready, but it wouldn't take too much to slap a gridline on one, if you can download it or print it.
Not to be too stickler-ish, but usually we call them deck-plans when we're referring to a ship. (Sorry, we old sailors sometimes get that chalkboard-scratch feel when we hear nautical malapropisms ;)
You'd think that 10 years in the Royal Australian Navy would have taught me something about Bulkheads, Deckheads, Free Surface, Bollards, Cut Splices, Action Stations and which end is the Fo'c'sle. In my own defence, I was using gamerspeak ;^)
Thanks for the info!
If you'd like to really go hog-wild, check out the Maiden of the High Seas model from worldworksgames.com.
It's a cardstock model. I haven't put that one together yet but I have assembled many of their other products and they are awesome - my players love the 3-D dungeons, inns and castles.