(Star)Ships for a Lava Sea, part 2

This series of posts began in August with a post entitled “Starships in Crowfield.” Despite the title, that post was really about beasts of burden.

With your feedback the idea grew and mutated until it became ships floating on a lava sea. This post is about some rules to create such ships, and to conduct ship-to-ship combat. The rules here are modified from rules I wrote a few years ago to develop starships.

We’ve come full circle. We now have “starships” in Crowfield.

Ships for a Lava Sea

So I’m still thinking about the Lava Sea and Teesha wood. I have not fallen out of love with the idea. If anything, I’m getting more excited. Here are my thoughts this week.

There are two changes from last week’s thoughts.

Beasts of Burden, Part 3: Teesha Wood & the Sea of Fire

James read last week’s post and offered a thought:

What about magic carpets for high [social] class, and wooden barges for low class/poor people? The barges are always falling apart.

I replied with some comment that I’d never heard of flying wood before, but as soon as I said it I realized that it wasn’t true. In 1988, Frank Chadwick wrote Space: 1889. That game features “liftwood.” Liftwood is an anti-gravity wood used to make steampunk spaceships in the year 1889.

This got me thinking…

Beasts of Burden, Part 2

A few weeks ago I posted some ideas about beasts of burden in the Firelands. I received some feedback, and I thought I would address it.