My crew settled on captain.
The ships goblin rogue worked and pushed for "The Salty Goblin"
The captain suggested "The Shackles Key" which I thought was clever.
They ended up with "The Wave Dancer."
Interesting. My party also chose the name "Wavedancer" though as 1 word and no article. It fits because the captain is an undine Oracle of the Waves, and the first mate is a kitsune ninja with dervish dance who plans to go into Shadowdancer.
Thats cool.
Crimson Cogward said when he heard the name, "Wave Dancer" sounds like a bunch of school girls named our boat after the ship the mythical carebears sailed across the hot chocate ocean."
After having been molested (ahem : naval personel trying to storm their Xebec ) by the Rahadoumi Convoy Escort "Finder's Keepers"(yeah a rough translation^^), they took over said schooner.
They are currently considering to rechristen her, but also intend to keep the ship mostly in its original colours and shape (possibly including the name ) to wreck havoc on Rahadoumi slave trade..
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My group that consists of mostly of thirtysomething men and women, decided that the Man's Promise should be renamed the Mourning Wood...this was surprisingly the suggestion of one of the female players who is really goofy and well seeing as she happens to also be the captian of the group everyone decided that it was a good name....they also paid to have a figurehead made for the ship which they decide should a man straddling the bowspirit betwen his legs.....so yeah
We renamed The Man's Promise to The Kraken's Breath.
The fact that we (the players) were getting schnockered on Kraken spiced rum might have had something to do with it.
We renamed The Man's Promise to The Kraken's Breath.
The fact that we (the players) were getting schnockered on Kraken spiced rum might have had something to do with it.
See, now that's roleplaying!! ;D
My group just finished "Wormwood Mutiny" last night, and moved on to "Raiders of the Fever Sea". While at Rickety's Squibs, the players had a good discussion of possible names for the former Man's Promise. They finally settled on Bonewrack's Revenge, after the island where they staged their mutiny.
After a long discussion of names a good party should have and avoid, mans promise was renamed black dagger.
My group's ship is called the Luska, named after the lightning-spitting three-headed sharktopus detailed in the bestiary of the first book. They had a figurehead made, but rather than go for a luska they for whatever reason opted to have a carving done of the ship's (now deceased) navigator and cleric of Besmara, Thomas Pining. They call it 'The Pining'.
Our ship is the infamous Honest Merchant. We are dishonest pirates, but honest slavers.
Kind of like the OP's ship name, mine is the same name I used on half a dozen ships in half a dozen campaigns since 2e... the Scarlet Harlot.
I even named the PC's schooner in Rite Publishing Curse of the Golden Spear trilogy for Kaidan (PFRPG) the same thing (I wrote the original outline for the 3 modules before Jonathan McAnulty wrote the final).
With over a hour long RL debate on tactics, the PCs managed to take the dominator as their own. So far the old captain is still tied up, but the first mate was offed later by an irate PC. The now Commodore being the devote desnan that she is named it Starknife.
After carefully considering several names, my alcoholic PCs settled on the "Rum Amok." Now that they've captured another ship (the Truewind), they've decided to ditch the former Man's Promise.
Their second most favorite name will now go to the ship formerly known as the Truewind... The Gay Barge. They are now carefully selecting their crew to find as many women and/or prostitutes as possible.
Euroclydon
Woman's Revenge (or similar play on 'Man's Promise')
Briny Banshee
Polar Vortex
Tortilla Ship
The Dead Alewife
The Black Ladies Bounty, the captain was a cleric of Besmara. Instead of naming it directly after the goddess (we kind of feared she'd show up and strike the name off the ship) we used one of her alternate titles.
Steel Dawn is our ship's name.
Other names in the running included Shadow of Regret, Morning Walker, and as incentive to actually pick something before the next session... BATTLESTAR GOLARIA.
Battlestar Golaria would have been an awesome name!
So my PCs have settled on renaming the mans promise to The Reavers Revenge.
They wanted just the Reaver, but liked the Revenge part for what they plan on doing to Harrigan for press ganging them.
I had suggested while they where stuck on a name to call the ship The Chopper.
So when they needed to get back to ship they could yell "Get to da choppa!" in an Arnold Schwarzenegger voice. Oh well.
A sharp-eyed PC noticed that there was another nameplate beneath the one that read Man's Promise. A bit of fiddling allowed for the viewing of the ship's original name Motley. Looks like they may be going with that as the name for the ship. [cue Motley Crue jokes]
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After capturing the Man's Promise, we renamed her Besmara's Booty
!? That's the very name my players have settled on! I'm thinking that in a pinch it may earn them a grace-of-Besmara rescue if required, after which she may just take all their loot. ("What? It's my booty. You said so yourself.")
We finally got additional ships to accompany our original Wrath of the Dawn. Our captain stayed on his own ship and others got their own but still visit and travel on our first ship.
Other three ships are:
Shadow of the Ocean, commanding officer is human fighter/shadowdancer
Phoenix, commanding officer is half-orc druid with bird companion.
Efreeti's Fist, commanding officer is qinggong/four winds monk who uses efreet style and fire based attacks.
The Black Magga (formerly mans promise)
my pcs have aquired quite a few ships and are about to rechristen four of them so I'm stealing everything in this thread as ideas and giving credit where it is due.
I realy love this forum but for some reason it took me a while to register.
Every time our gaming group gets their hands on a ship they christen it the same thing.
The Grim and Perilous
I'll be quite surprised if they dont do the same this time around.
In a nod to the nature of naming a ship 'one of ours' which I think is hillarious...
And in honor of Agrajag in his plant reincarnation from Douglas Adams...
I'd like to have a ship named 'Oh no not again'...
After trawling through about 50 names we finally settled on:
The Pointy End
(although we use the Unfinished Business when peacefully acting like traders, and the Black Stiletto when . . . um . . . not sure, but we have a Gnome with a shoe fetish who designed the flipping 3 sided name plate)
Also we were keen on Plunderstruck, as the boarding song writes itself thanks to ACDC.
My group settled on "The Butte Fucher"... It's French.
After capturing the Man's Promise, we renamed her Besmara's Booty!? That's the very name my players have settled on! I'm thinking that in a pinch it may earn them a grace-of-Besmara rescue if required, after which she may just take all their loot. ("What? It's my booty. You said so yourself.")
I approve!
Ours is named "The Brine's Bane"
The Anna May.
Sigh.
Playing a game now with a flying ship crewed by evil creatures. It's called "Good intentions."
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KRAKEN'S FURY: (Master Gunner Featherline at the helm)
Colossal modified sailing ship
Sailing Checks +15 (+16 upper hand)
Initiative +4
AC 15 (Ship), Touch AC 2; Hardness 9
AC 27 (Wheel); Hardness 5
AC 19 (Sails); Hardness 0
HP 1620+81 (sails 360) (wheel 25)
Max Speed 90 ft. (wind); Accel 30 ft.
Saves +19
CMB +21; CMD 31
Ramming Damage 10d8
Weapons:
Two Light Ballista +3 (Sulzaia level 4 witch or Erwin level 4 ranger; +7 - 4 nonproficiency; 19-20 x2 crit), 3d8, range 120 (Hardness 5, 50 HP); Crew 1, Aim 0, Load 2
One Heavy Ballista +4 (Marine +4; 19-20 x2 crit), 4d8, range 180 (Hardness 5, 100 HP); Crew 3, Aim 2, Load 3
One Standard Catapult +10 (Master Gunner Featherline Targeting Bonus +14 - 4 nonproficiency; x2 crit), 6d6, range 200 ft. (100 ft. min.) (Hardness 5, 100 HP); Crew 3, Aim 2, Load 3
Ammo:
(10) Heavy ballista shots
(15) Light ballista shots
(25) Standard catapult shots
Min crew 20 (-10 to sailing checks if crew under 20)
Total Crew: 32 (19 + 4 from Rickety's + 6 from Elten Baide + 3 from Truewind)
PCs: 6 (Bronn, Erwin, F!@#waite, Sulzaia, Narsius, Uerra)
NPCs: 7 (Kroop, Sandara, Rosie, Conchobar, Narwhal, Owlbear, Grok)
Pirates: 18
Marines: 1 (Ballista)
UPON BOARDING THE SHIP: NPCs, Pirates and Marines are busy fighting the crew, while the PCs fight the following elite pirates, each CR 3 and worth 800 XP each: (stats available upon request)
Captain Bronn, Male human Ranger 2/ Rogue 1/ Gunslinger 1
Master-at-Arms Erwin, Male human Ranger 4 with Rotgut, Parrot Familiar
Ship's Wizard Sulzaia, Female small tiefling Witch 4
Master Gunner Featherline, Male half-elf Rogue 2 (pirate) / Gunslinger 2 (siege gunner)
Upgrades List:
Squib
Smugglers Compartments
Silk Sails
Wood Plate
Sturdy Hull
Broad Rudder
Rapid Deploy Sails
Ram
Figurehead
Total approx ship worth: 22400gp
Plunder resale: 11 plunder points
Based upon my party's pathetic offensive capabilities, they chose to christen their ship the Wind's Endurance. As their captain is a follower of Cayden Cailean, their flag is something on the order of a black background with a hound holding a beer stein, standing on a white cloud.
Our group has 2 ships: the Red Wake (Grim Reaper figurehead, black flag with shark emblem), and the Wasp (yellow and black paint, wasp figurehead, black flag with yellow wasp skull and bones that emulate Calostrias symbol).