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Aragorn327
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5/19/07 8:30am
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Naval campaign?
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I'm working on a campaign where the PCs will be crewing on a capital ship. I'd originally intended for it to primarily be tactical with mainly space combat and the like, but changed my mind.
Anyone done a campaign like this who's got some advice?
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Koohii
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Find a copy of the DarkStryder campaign set. The entire plot revolves around the crew of a modified Corellian Corvette
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Aragorn327 posted:
I'm working on a campaign where the PCs will be crewing on a capital ship. I'd originally intended for it to primarily be tactical with mainly space combat and the like, but changed my mind.
Anyone done a campaign like this who's got some advice?
Ya, actually.
A couple of things:
1) Read the Starships section about "What characters on a ship can do."
2) Recall all of the specific feats and prestige classes which can make these campaigns easier (specifically the older ones from Starships of the Galaxy).
3) Large-scale naval combat can be settled with opposing Knowledge (Tactics) rolls, or at least provide guidelines for how a battle will be going.
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Aragorn327
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6/30/07 4:21am
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RE: Naval campaign?
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I've decided I'm going to be using GURPs for this campaign. That decision made it easy enough for characters, but I'm working out my own space combat system.
Within each ship, the crew queues up their actions for the turn. Leaders get the ability to belay commands if necessary, then the effects of the various skill checks and the like go into play together. In terms of the battle, this makes it easy for me to know exactly what any given ship is doing at a time. Also allows everyone in the crew to make sure they're on the same page and allows them all to be able to contribute something every turn, if it comes to that.
However, in terms of the math involved in missile hits and shields and the like, it's currently taking me about 12 rounds to do some actually noticeable damage to an opposing ship of the same class, using dull tactics and average rolls. How long do you think is too long? I can change numbers to make things happen quicker, but I'm not really sure if it'll drag on with real players instead of just me testing things. There's plenty of non-space combat in the campaign, but I want these space battles to be fairly exciting and involving for the various characters. Not necessarily too fast pace, but I don't want to bore them.
Any ideas?
edit: I'll be running a pre-game, in which a few of the characters will be doing simmed combat against academy trainees, to help prepare those trainees for graduation. So, I'll be able to test it out on them and tweak things as they see fit, but I'm hoping to have it fairly well worked out at that point, to excite them for the first real game.
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