Airship cargo [Archive] - Wizards Community

Airship cargo [Archive] - Wizards Community

Post/Author/DateTime Post
Dieb
12-13-05, 05:24 PM Has anyone worked up a sample manifest/bill of laiding for what's in the cargo hold of an airship? lightning rail? etc.

I'm crashing my players into the the mornlands, I just know they are gonna loot that ship.
ThePrivateer
12-13-05, 05:58 PM Really, give them whatever you feel comfortable giving them. If you want to limit their loot, make it a cargo of food -- heavy, but time-sensitive enough that it might be being "airlifted" to a starving region.

If you want them to get real loot, again, take into account that most goods transported in this way would be time sensitive -- why else ship them on an expensive craft? Spices or arms and armor to a country at war would provide PCs with valuable loot and their presence on an airship would be well justified.
Dieb
12-13-05, 07:40 PM I was hoping somebody had a loot table already, then I could just delete the stuff that shouldn't be there or would alter the game too much.
Far_Traveler
12-13-05, 09:54 PM i know i know!

the ship is sending food to a starved city under siege... that can't touch the ship (illusion orb)

unless you accually plan for them to get stuff from this siege
braindead345
12-14-05, 05:14 AM Medical herbs.

Religious writings (not favored upon in areas the texts would have to pass through on the ground).

Ceremonial items important to upcoming religious festivals.

Food that spoils quickly-eggs, milk, and rare produce (strawberries, banannas, & pineapples).

Live animals-breeding stock desperately needed or rare animals given as gifts between rulers.

Jewels (not gold or silver-they are too heavy to be worth the expense).

Passengers.

Dispatches from outposts to the capital (and visca versa). DC 20 to crack the codes used.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Dieb 12-13-05, 05:24 PM	Has anyone worked up a sample manifest/bill of laiding for what's in the cargo hold of an airship? lightning rail? etc. I'm crashing my players into the the mornlands, I just know they are gonna loot that ship.
ThePrivateer 12-13-05, 05:58 PM	Really, give them whatever you feel comfortable giving them. If you want to limit their loot, make it a cargo of food -- heavy, but time-sensitive enough that it might be being "airlifted" to a starving region. If you want them to get real loot, again, take into account that most goods transported in this way would be time sensitive -- why else ship them on an expensive craft? Spices or arms and armor to a country at war would provide PCs with valuable loot and their presence on an airship would be well justified.
Dieb 12-13-05, 07:40 PM	I was hoping somebody had a loot table already, then I could just delete the stuff that shouldn't be there or would alter the game too much.
Far_Traveler 12-13-05, 09:54 PM	i know i know! the ship is sending food to a starved city under siege... that can't touch the ship (illusion orb) unless you accually plan for them to get stuff from this siege
braindead345 12-14-05, 05:14 AM	Medical herbs. Religious writings (not favored upon in areas the texts would have to pass through on the ground). Ceremonial items important to upcoming religious festivals. Food that spoils quickly-eggs, milk, and rare produce (strawberries, banannas, & pineapples). Live animals-breeding stock desperately needed or rare animals given as gifts between rulers. Jewels (not gold or silver-they are too heavy to be worth the expense). Passengers. Dispatches from outposts to the capital (and visca versa). DC 20 to crack the codes used.