Arr! Salty Battles!

[L. Marcus]

Any resources or tips or anything at all, really, on running mass combat á la Fantasy HERO with ships?

[Old Man]

You really aught to have some form of rules for knockback.

 

Rather than having Swinging as a Power. make it a Skill. Everybody moves the same speed but how well you do it depends on your skill roll.

 

Maybe have a WF: Shipboard Combat. Fairly certain that a person not familiar with fighting on a rolling deck would suffer some sort of penalty. Oh wait wait! Safe Environment/Environmental Movement: Rolling Deck.

 

I have no idea how you would do the knife in the canvas thing.

[lemming]

Originally posted by Shadowpup

I have no idea how you would do the knife in the canvas thing.

Acrobatics or possibly breakfall.

[austenandrews]

There are some rules for mass combat with ships in the old Fantasy Hero Companion II.

 

-AA

[L. Marcus]

Originally posted by austenandrews

There are some rules for mass combat with ships in the old Fantasy Hero Companion II.

This sounds like what I´m searching for. Any idea where one can be found?

 

And I´d make the sail-ripping trick a straight Acrobatics roll and the swinging would be resolved with Climbing.

 

Oo oo! EM: Sea Legs is essential!

[austenandrews]

Try eBay, or I hear this place has them, though I haven't looked myself: http://www.nobleknight.com/

 

-AA

[L. Marcus]

Yup, they've got it, all right . . . Now, to get it from There to Here . . . I'm already way over budget on RPG stuff, with Fantasy, Star, Ninja, Bestiary and UMA bought in the same month!

 

I'm weak, I tell you! So very, very weak!

[ThothAmon]

Try the old Hero Games supplement 'Pirates'

 

Readily available second hand from online game stores.

[Lord Liaden]

Originally posted by ThothAmon

Try the old Hero Games supplement 'Pirates'

 

Readily available second hand from online game stores.

 

Your suggestion may or may not have been facetious, but that book actually did have some good naval rules for both 4E HERO System and Rolemaster. All the "Campaign Classics" dual-statted books were of high quality. And lo and behold, Noble Knight Games has copy of that, too:

 

http://www.nobleknight.com/ProductDetail.asp?ProductID=6080&InventoryID=-1680383462&ProductLineID=110&ManufacturerID=25&CategoryID=12&GenreID=

 

(I know, I'm feeding L. Marcus's addiction. I'm so ashamed...)

[L. Marcus]

Originally posted by Lord Liaden

Your suggestion may or may not have been facetious, but that book actually did have some good naval rules for both 4E HERO System and Rolemaster. All the "Campaign Classics" dual-statted books were of high quality. And lo and behold, Noble Knight Games has copy of that, too:

 

http://www.nobleknight.com/ProductDetail.asp?ProductID=6080&InventoryID=-1680383462&ProductLineID=110&ManufacturerID=25&CategoryID=12&GenreID=

 

(I know, I'm feeding L. Marcus's addiction. I'm so ashamed...)

You bastard, you! You'll have your comeuppance, be sure!

 

Seriously, though, I think I've gotta start selling me blud . . . Or other excess body parts. What would they give for a fully functional appendix, you think?

[ThothAmon]

Your suggestion may or may not have been facetious, but that book actually did have some good naval rules for both 4E HERO System and Rolemaster. All the "Campaign Classics" dual-statted books were of high quality.

 

Not facetious at all. IIRC the naval combat rules from the 4th edition FH Companions are drawn from those first presented in 'Pirates'.

 

I agree on the quality of the 'Campaign Classics' books, all were of a high standard. In particular 'Mythic Greece' was a top class product IMO.

[Badger]

Should we have an intervention for L Marcus.