Rules Governing Ships

[ripx187]

The rules governing ships, at least up to AD&D 2nd Edition, were terrible. They specify that nautical sciences do not exist and the ships must travel along the coast. I ignore this. According to what little there is in the DMG in regards to tables, ship travel is dangerous and to unpredictable. I could be wrong, but I don't even think that they have movement rates.


Now, granted, they did publish a supplement during the 2e era all about ships, but I never did buy it. I have seen a little of it, and what little I did see didn't have enough crunch to encourage me to seek out this book. I pretty much just fill in the blanks whenever the need shows up, which I like to do; but I often wonder if I am missing out on some opportunities.

[hengest]

Had never known about this. Bookmarked the thread. Nautical adventure?

[mao]

I ran some pirate games and used star ships a lot but never did ships much in D&D, prob a weakness. have to do a one thread of something "Shippy"

[The Perilous Dreamer]

I had my players a few years back on shipboard for a long journey, then a good long while on land and then back on shipboard for the last leg of their journey with a lot of detours along the way.