Mitheral
"Growf!"
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Deck plans and stats
Premise: A group of adventures aboard an experimental prototype Hammerhead class spelljammer vessel are pulled through a rift in space time and wind up on 21st century Earth. They were being pursued by various enemies. Illithids, Githyanki, Beholders and others.
Characters
Blank CS
These characters should be comparable to Level 7-13 characters from AD&D 2nd Edition. I never played later editions. But here, 7th level would be considered a rookie, 13th a veteran. No, we won’t be using actual levels. Just describe your character accordingly by their experience. In short, these are intrepid adventurers. I will judge how their experience affects the ship.
The crew is 24-60, with 14 of those needed for weapons. That leaves 10-46 slots to fill. So I am looking for a minimum of 10 characters. (We can use technomagic to operate the weapons if you like. We can even alter the weapons to something mystical - but NOT fire based, which doesn’t function well in space.)
We will need at least one mage. (Wizard, Druid, Alchemist, Artificer, etc - anything BUT a class dependent on a deity.) I recommend at least two. Please, no benders!!!! This is not an anime. Magic here uses VERBAL components, so think more along the lines of AD&D or even Harry Potter.
Your characters SHOULD have magic items. Again, thing AD&Dish. C&S, if you recognize it. If you have never played these rpg’s, try to describe what you want and maybe I can suggest some ideas. (I started running Ad&D 2e back in 1980, C&S in the mid 80’s I think.)
Realistic or Modern - Spelljammers - CS
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Realistic or Modern - Spelljammers - IC (Main)
Zhelyne - synthetic humanoids used as crew Ellen had received a message from an old friend, Sybil, who had requested her help with some new project. The message had described the situation as Urgent. What she and the rest of her adventurers found when they arrived was that Ellen’s friend was...
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Races
Well, obviously Earth will be populated by humans.
The ship crew is another matter altogether. I do NOT want custom races. I want Player Races from well established rpg sources (not video games!!!). Pathfinder and the like. You MUST have a very good image for your character with a clearly visible face (not something covered up by a mask or helm). Please avoid anything OP. You must be able to travel in normal air for extended periods.
So yes, you could be a Lizard Man, Elf, etc, etc. Uhm, the nice races like elves are in a political disarray, in civil war and wars with enemies. Their highest leaders were assassinated by a mysterious character known only as the Kingslayer. Hobbits have holed up their last remaining home and attack anyone intruding on their lands. So … talk to me before making one. I will also consider unusual hybrids.
I WILL want to post a link to racial descriptions from other online sources, that discuss culture and such in a Lore thread.
Allowed races
Races
Magic
Unlike classic Spelljammer vessels, these vessels use a magical form of biopunk to store and even generate mana. Usually they rely on the Flows of mana in their home realms. Our realm is going to make life far more difficult. There is no Mana in space. Earth is a low mana realm, so mana will replenish much slower (but it will replenish - usually). The effects of spells and magic devices will be weaker. But any critical failures will have lesser consequences.
http://people.wku.edu/charles.plemo...hoenix/reference_spelljamming_for_dummies.pdf
Laws of Physics that the Characters were accustomed to.
The Hammership
The Crew will need to come up with a name for the ship. It was never commissioned.
Special Note: These are NOT the classic Spelljammer ships of AD&D, though they bear many similarities. These are more of a blend of Spelljammer and a form of magicpunk, primitive steampunk, and biopunk. THIS Hammership is a LIVING CONSTRUCT. Unlike the Spelljammer ships, these ships are able to operate in a planetary atmosphere or even underwater. In fact, the ship was designed with this in mind, with EVA ports. (Bear this in mind when looking at the deck plans. They will be a little off as they were drawn for classic Spelljammer games.)
Spelljamming ships have two speeds, tactical and spelljamming. Tactical speed is a function of SR (Ship's Rating), which is in turn determined by the type of locomotion it has and the power of its helmsman, and any emergency power reserve. 1 SR translates into about 170 mph, which compared to most ground movement is a fantastic pace. The SR is dependent on the experience of the helmsman (a mage by necessity), ranging from 4 to 6 (technically 3.5 to 6.5) for up to 12 hours, then slowly losing speed.
It is not, however, a particularly impressive speed when measured against the vast distances of space. That is where spelljamming speed comes in.
When a ship is travelling at spelljamming speed, regardless of its tactical SR, it can travel 100 million miles per day, or 4 million mph. For those mathematically inclined, this is roughly 0.00596465972 times the speed of light. This speed can only be maintained in a straight line, meaning spelljamming ships must decelerate to tactical speed in order to turn.
Despite this massive speed, spelljamming ships are in no danger of collision with other objects. Objects of less than 10 tons in volume lose relative velocity to the spelljamming vessel as soon as they touch its air envelope, bobbing across its gravity plane until they come to rest and are slowly expelled from the envelope. If the spelljamming vessel comes within 12,500 yards of an object of greater than 10 tons volume, it automatically and instantly decelerates to tactical speed.
Some of the technomagic and biopunk used
Evermap
Sarcophagus of Preservation
Storm Wood
ManaSails and GravWood
Lifejammer Turbothrone
Favored by evil races of spacefarers, this type of spelljamming helm feeds off of the life energies of an individual within (who may be there against their will). It is located in Engineering (rear of Cargo Hold).
Every day of operation sucks lifeforce from the creature within. This lifeforce cannot be regenerated while the creature remains in the throne with the helm on and activated. An average being can last about 8-12 hours. The adventurers will last 7-13 times this long. They will only use this in an emergency, but it can dramatically increase the ship’s SR.
The Ship's Rating can be calculated by assuming that the creature within was a wizard using a minor helm, at that creature's current experience. For the crew this means an SR of +2 to +4.
Backstory
The group should already know one another. How they obtained the Hammerhead is a matter for discussion. You may have been the intended crew. Or you may have stolen it. Or you may have been hired as its new crew by an existing crew that was short handed. LOL, you may have even been shanghaied.
Arrival
The will exit the portal about 852 million miles from Earth, an 8.5 day trip. With limited supplies and air, they must make their way to Earth and land. From there the Plot depends largely on where they decide to land.
Plot
I will give you a hint. Imagine if a nation - let’s assume the US - detected a 60 ton displacement object hurtling toward Earth at 0.596465972% speed of light and it suddenly comes to a near halt at the edge of the atmosphere travelling at subsonic relative speeds and descending, changing course, etc. How do you suppose that will go?
After that it is going to depend on the group’s decisions. This will be a GM guided campaign. I will offer another hint. If the Illithids and Githyanki make it through, they will fill roles similar to the Aliens and Predators of the movies by those names. It will be bad for humans on Earth. But as it stands, their primary objective is your ship.
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