feralucce Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 I am writing up a space/fantasy crossover... Think spelljammer for the old D&D setting... They over simplified it... making a single artifact that did it all... In the style of old D&D, allowing them to concentrate on the adventuring... We're HERO players, so that duck will not fly. Spelljammer was a bastardization of the mariner vessel type "Windjammer". We're looking for a name for our ships. A name that will cover all classes of ships... Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 How about "Voidcraft"? Many types, but all Voidcraft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feralucce Posted August 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 It is a possibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feralucce Posted August 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 here is the cover, in case anyone needs inspiration Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
薔薇語 Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 Aethercraft port-portals light-riders glistening gliders void vessels space ships Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feralucce Posted August 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 *snickers* space ships... hadn't thought of that... It's better than the snarcastic stuff my table is suggesting... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NuSoardGraphite Posted August 26, 2014 Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 Star Galleon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
薔薇語 Posted August 26, 2014 Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 Manta Rays are sea creatures that look like they should fly. So how about "Void Rays" as a general name for all vessels with various classes of ships being named after various aquatic animals (that also look like they should fly). La Rose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feralucce Posted August 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 That is good... My big problem has been that Spelljammer grabbed ya... and I want something that does that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted August 26, 2014 Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 Old names for ships not previously considered: Argosies; brigs; caravels; doggers; (e) feluccas; galleases; hulks; (i) junks; knorrs; llighters; merchants; navs; oilers; pinnaces; quinquereme; Ragusas; ships; trawlers/trollers; (u); vessels; windjammers; xebecs; yawls; (z) Rather than go all Scrabble-player, I've left out the letters I couldn't match to a ship/boat name right away. There are a lot of other options, of course. Frigates and corvettes, carriers and tugs, water taxis and drifters, seiners and turret ships, protected cruisers and destroyers, rams and penteconters, triremes and Landing Ship Tanks and Ro-Ros. I had trouble with coming up with something for "q" until I asked myself what a pretentious toff would do and remembered Masefield's "Cargos." I guess the point here is that the romance of the sea is conjured up by the variety of names. Notice that TSR focusses on what makes its setting different (spells!) and then attaching that to a particularly well-known ship type (the windjammers that used to make the long voyages around the world in the Roaring Forties) in a way that implies the missing "wind." Now take it in a different direction: wind is romantic, but so is space opera. What about that recently past future-that-has-not-yet-been, when adventurers lifted off on the thundering jet for canalled Mars and jungled Venus, the canyons of Mercury, and the icy micro-planets of the Belt? A Wand of Fireballs should be quite enough to get you and your cargo out of the gravity well and on your way to where the Towers of Truth still soar along Mar's Grand Canal. Magecraft? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 Star Clipper? Sunrunner? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 Space Junk ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 Junk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feralucce Posted August 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 Rose and Old Man; I think you sparked the name we've settled on - Voidrunners And every one else, thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 I'll send an invoice shortly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
薔薇語 Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 I'll send an invoice shortly. More likely than not, our invoices will get lost in the void... La Rose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feralucce Posted August 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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