So we currently are playing in a semi-aquatic campaign and were recently quite smitten with the idea of commissioning our own ship. Since then we have been rapidly imagining and going out of control as players like to do thinking about creating a submarine (either the main vessel or added on).
So our witch is now dead set on taking craft wondrous item ado craft construct. At first we were thinking of giving it some sort of ai but then we remembered that animated objects are a thing.
I'm in charge of the shipbuilding. I'm a 3rd level ranger with 10 int and will be taking ranks in Craft(Ships) when I level up most likely. Is it worth it for me to try or should I just focus on getting the gold to commission/buy a ship?
A normal sailing ship is 10000 gp. What would you add to it to make it "better"? Ideas so far have been ironwood and other GM fiat modifications. What kind of things could make a ship masterwork? What would you say the price increase would be?
Also I'd like any advice I could get for how quickly a colossal animated object could be made. Lowest caster level etc; I'm sure our caster is researching it but I'd like to pick brains here so we can present everything to the GM.
And finally do you think that the CP modification for animated objects that grants a swim speed includes submarine movement?
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Have you ever watched League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?
As a Ranger with average INT It maybe worth your wild to simply BUY a ship with your specifications, but if time isn't an issue there isn't a reason why building the ship (If well planned, like hiring a ship wright and a master shipbuilders to over see your work) isn't out of possibility
Personally on craft TIME nothing less than 5 months... (without the aide of magic)
Adding Fly and Air Bubble (or equivalent spell for that size of object to make the entire thing a submarine) to any ship would be awesome
For masterwork... The wood would need to be fine quality, Sails same deal,armament top of the line. (As a DM I would claim a prize to each as +3000gp for MW wood, +1000 for Sails, and masterwork Cannons/Ballista would be +500- +1000 Each.
Yes I have seen LoEG. Now my character is going to be a little more Quartermain which makes sense, he was already a poacher.
Yeah I think I'm just going to purchase the ship seems like a better idea. But time isn't an issue so the shipwright idea might work well too.
Fly isn't necessary since making the ship an animated object takes care of that.
The air bubble idea is good and I'm glad you brought it up. I don't know if the animated object CP rules grant the object a submarine movement. We were kind of using the apparatus of the as a basis to pitch to our DM but a normal ship may work just fine.
The masterwork pricing is good too, thanks for your help!
I think one of the Skull & Shackles books has ship upgrades in it.
