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Hi, nitpicky little Selk here, he of costume concerns and earnestly important fripperies.
Just wanted to say I love the most recent picture of Absalom on the blog. It's warm, Byzantine and majestic - and actually looks like a city that could dominate the seas between Taldar and Osirion. Cool beans.
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A small question though. How are naval battles arranged with ships like that? They have the tacking for military maneuvers but no cannons. Are ships' wizards the alternative, or is naval warfare mainly a 'lash and board' affair in Golarion?
Thanks!
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Hi, nitpicky little Selk here, he of costume concerns and earnestly important fripperies.
Just wanted to say I love the most recent picture of Absalom on the blog. It's warm, Byzantine and majestic - and actually looks like a city that could dominate the seas between Taldar and Osirion. Cool beans.
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A small question though. How are naval battles arranged with ships like that? They have the tacking for military maneuvers but no cannons. Are ships' wizards the alternative, or is naval warfare mainly a 'lash and board' affair in Golarion?
Thanks!
They don't have cannons because there are no cannons in Golarion, really. Naval combat in Golarion is indeed a 'lash and board' affair with spellcasters on deck supported by ballistae and perhaps catapulty type stuff.
Yep. That plus coffee makes my morning.
That is my background now
It's looks like they're gonna have a collision.
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That is my background now
I go here to grab the calendar and then put the most recent few months over top of pics like this in Adobe Photoshop. I just put up my Nov/Dec calendar (the elven city) but I think this will kick off the new year as my January/February calendar. It will sit on both my desktop and my laptop.
When my students see my laptop and ask me where I got the picture, I tell them. I'm not shy about being a gamer.
It's looks like they're gonna have a collision.
Riese: "Dammit! Who gave Gittik the wheel!
Hang Stiggy over the starboard bow, turn hard port, and we'll bounce off!"Gittik: "Which way port am?"
Riese: "Left!"
Gittik: "Which way left am?"
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They don't have cannons because there are no cannons in Golarion, really. Naval combat in Golarion is indeed a 'lash and board' affair with spellcasters on deck supported by ballistae and perhaps catapulty type stuff.
BAH! They have cannons in MY Golarion. =p Gotta have cannons for a real fun Shackles adventure.
Besides, there's already a Pathfinder picture showing cannons on a ship! I know because it's my desktop =p
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They don't have cannons because there are no cannons in Golarion, really. Naval combat in Golarion is indeed a 'lash and board' affair with spellcasters on deck supported by ballistae and perhaps catapulty type stuff.
BAH! They have cannons in MY Golarion. =p Gotta have cannons for a real fun Shackles adventure.
Besides, there's already a Pathfinder picture showing cannons on a ship! I know because it's my desktop =p
Would that be the picture of the ship from Pathfinder #8 that went live on the blog before it was ready for print, perchance? Or do I have to retcon another piece of art? :-)
They are just big holy alters to Gorum. Nothing shows more belief in Gorum than large hollow iron cylinders (other than beating people down with said cylinders).
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Would that be the picture of the ship from Pathfinder #8 that went live on the blog before it was ready for print, perchance? Or do I have to retcon another piece of art? :-)
That would be the one =p
I like cannons, ship to ship combat with ballistas/catapults is just awkward and doesn't convey any of the emotion/thematic elements that a naval adventure should. The lash and board is obviously good, but that would be an element even WITH the cannons.
Just make them only common in the shackles, so you don't have to explain why every city doesn't have cannons at the ports for protection.
Cannons have been around since the 1300s in England, and earlier in the middle east and china afterall.
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Would that be the picture of the ship from Pathfinder #8 that went live on the blog before it was ready for print, perchance? Or do I have to retcon another piece of art? :-)That would be the one =p
I like cannons, ship to ship combat with ballistas/catapults is just awkward and doesn't convey any of the emotion/thematic elements that a naval adventure should. The lash and board is obviously good, but that would be an element even WITH the cannons.
Just make them only common in the shackles, so you don't have to explain why every city doesn't have cannons at the ports for protection.
Cannons have been around since the 1300s in England, and earlier in the middle east and china afterall.
Make the cannonballs work, but the secret magic of metallurgy necessary to prevent the cannons from exploding unknown to any but a few wealthy gnomish wizards. Anyone cannons not built by this one family has a 15% chance of exploding and taking its own ship apart. ;-)