10-25-2016, 09:16 AM | #11 | |
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If your zombies do have Cannot Learn (Zombies reckons it is not mandatory) then you have to run the ship like a slave-galley, with several rowers per oar, one of whom does need skill, and thus has to be alive. Sounds like a load of no fun.
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10-25-2016, 09:26 AM | #12 | |
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10-25-2016, 09:36 AM | #13 |
Hero of Democracy
Join Date: Mar 2012
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Of course, if anyone ever had the motivation to figure out a spell that makes zombies that know how row from creation, it would be Abydos. They're an island that practices necromancy with hostile neighbors and their own private inland sea (ideal for galleys)
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10-25-2016, 09:56 AM | #14 |
Wielder of Smart Pants
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Location: Ventura CA
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Just cast Zombie on former oarsmen.
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10-25-2016, 10:09 AM | #15 | |
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I think that many weather spells are normal Area spells, so once cast the area of effect does not move with the caster. I agree that a handful of magic items with low-prerequisite spells are easier to make fit than giving every coaster a versatile mage. And important ships loaded with expensive men-at-arms and crossbowmen can probably spring for a skilled mage and a dozen powerstones.
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10-25-2016, 10:36 AM | #16 | |
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If a Skip's Captain wants a IQ14/Magery 3 guy at his beck and call It's not going to be very likely.
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10-25-2016, 10:37 AM | #17 | |
Wielder of Smart Pants
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In a (non-Yrth) game once, the party needed to steal a ship from a dock, and they assigned the wizard (unaware of just how specialized he was) to recruit a crew. So he ended up finding a shipwreck and casting Mass Zombie. The other characters were worried when he showed up without sailors, but he assured them that the sailors would be there when needed. As they were raiding the ship from shore the skeletons rose up from the bay and boarded the ship from the other side. |
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10-25-2016, 11:03 AM | #18 | ||
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Everything about Abydos is supposed to be weird and disturbing, and their navy should be one of those things.
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10-25-2016, 11:31 AM | #19 | |
Hero of Democracy
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Of course, the items mostly 300 energy each, so they cost roughly $10,000 each. A little high, but stick it on a big enough boat, and its totally worth it. Its better than paying a skill 12 mage $700 a month!
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10-25-2016, 01:36 PM | #20 | |
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Providing the FP to power such a device is going to be a full-time job for somebody but the job requirements are less intensive. If anyone wonders the "Can be used on a ship" Spells are Waves, Current, Tides and Wind. If used all together your ship will probably look like it's riding a cartoon-style "tidal wave"?.
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