Questions tagged [vehicles]
For questions about vehicles in RPGs: devices for carrying/transporting objects and/or people.
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Is there a spell that can stop a ship?
There is a ship that needs to be stopped from sailing away without sinking it. The ship is large (2 masts), is in deep water and has a gust of wind item.
I am looking for spells up to a lvl 4 slot, ...
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Can a UA Warforged Envoy pick a land vehicle as his integrated tool?
I am aware that a Warforged Envoy picking anything but the tools in the PHB on page 154 is probably against RAI and would be an awkward implementation. But is it RAW?
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Does a warship make a Constitution saving throw against the Shatter spell, or does it automatically take the damage?
The Shatter (Player's Handbook, page 275) spell description reads:
Each creature in a 10-foot-radius sphere centered on that point must make a Constitution saving throw. A creature takes 3d8 thunder ...
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Is the Folding Boat truly seaworthy?
So, in the Ghosts of Saltmarsh adventure book, it gives more in depth information on sea adventuring and ship information. I am running a campaign and my players are located on a large salt water lake ...
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Can you cast a stealth spell on a vehicle?
Our party is traveling through the desert in a boat-like vehicle and we want to hide its tracks. We're not sure how to do that. Right now we're looking at spells that might help such as pass without ...
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How far can a ship "see"?
I need a sight range for a ship at sea in 5e.
This is important because I'm using a virtual tabletop and using fog of war. This seems like a stat that would be part of the ship's stat block, but such ...
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How many weapons can I place on a ship?
I am DMing a new campaign and its going to be based mostly on naval battles, and piracy. The issue I am having is that in the DMG (page 119) it sets out the types of ship available. However since they ...
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What's the difference between a cart and a wagon?
I am currently creating a traveling merchant character as both my player's background and his profession (adventuring as a ranger class). In the 5e handbook, it states that the merchant variant of the ...
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How can I efficiently manage Ship to Ship Tactical Combat and Boarding?
I'm planning a campaign that will involve a fair amount of ship to ship combat and boarding. My group is accustomed to using a square grid battle mat, and I'm concerned about the mechanics of the PC'...
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In Ghosts of Saltmarsh, how do the players obtain a ship?
In Ghosts of Saltmarsh, there is a lot of information about ships, naval combat, and the sea in general. However, I can't find any information on how to get a ship in the first place. I want to run ...
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Where Can I Find Good Ship Plans? [closed]
I need a variety of ship plans - not surface deck plans, and not side views, but actual interior arrangements of various sorts of vessels - orlop deck, cable locker, that sort of thing. They are ...
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How many creatures fit on a Carpet of Flying during combat?
The Carpet of Flying comes in four sizes. To keep it simple, let's just look at the smallest carpet, which is 3 feet by 5 feet in size, can carry 200 lb., and has a fly speed of 80. It can carry twice ...
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Of Lancing with a Motorcycle
Vampires can get scary old. In fact, in the society of the Camarilla, it is seen as somewhat noble to have been born before the age of industrialisation, and some of its leading cadre literally had ...
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How does the Blink spell work on moving vehicles?
During a combat that takes place on top of a moving vehicle (let's say a bus moving at 60 feet per round), What happens if you use the spell blink?
The blink spell description states that:
At the ...
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Can a target have two Armor Class (AC) values?
I had an idea for a kobold-operated tank.
The armor would be thick enough to be immune to damage from all mundane projectiles (arrows, bolts, flintlocks, javelins, etc.), and resistant to magic and ...
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Is there any means to improve vehicle use other than the artificer's 6th-level Tool Expertise feature?
I'm going to be starting a new campaign in the new year, in which the party are crewmembers of an airship. I'm planning to have my character be the helmsman, and as such I have a tool proficiency in ...
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What speed benefit (if any) do horses or carriages offer when travelling long distances?
The rules for Travel Pace in the PHB and Basic Rules are good and straightforward, with players able to travel on foot for 8 hours per day without over-exerting themselves, choosing a pace of Slow (2 ...
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What do the vehicles in 3:16 actually do?
I've got a good handle on most of the rules in Three Sixteen: Carnage Amongst the Stars. I've run a few games with it (a while ago). There's something that leaves me absolutely stumped, though, in a ...
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What is the cargo capacity of a Cart versus a Wagon?
In the D&D 5e Player's Handbook, on pages 155-157, is the Mounts and Vehicles section. The only statistics that they give are Cost and Weight. Does anyone know how much a Cart can carry as ...
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Does a Paladin's Mount retain a cart when dismissed and called?
The Paladin's Mount states:
The mount also appears wearing or carrying any gear it had when it was last dismissed.
Mounts and Related Gear has:
Cart
This two-wheeled vehicle can be drawn ...
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How can PCs keep up when maneuver DCs increase so quickly?
Lots of maneuvers call for a DC of [some number]+2×[the ship's tier]. Yet as your character levels up (and your ship's tier with it), your max ranks in a given skill only increase by 1/level.
Thus, ...
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Does the number of animals pulling a cart affect the speed they can travel?
To add to my question here about a mule's pulling capacity, I was curious to know how in-depth additional information should be processed.
For instance, does the 5e RAW or RAI take into ...
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Am I understanding how to calculate a mule's pulling capacity correctly?
Am I understanding how to calculate a mule's pulling capacity correctly?
The PHB offers a few bits of information scattered across the chapters, and though I've read answers like this, I'd like to ...
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Which is the correct length for a sailing ship from Ghosts of Saltmarsh, 100 ft. or 80 ft.?
Ghosts of Saltmarsh provides both stat blocks and deck plans for the several kinds of ships listed in the Dungeon Master's Guide. The stat blocks include, among other things, ship sizes expressed as &...
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How do fighter ships in the Dark Matter supplement communicate with each other?
I was looking through the Dark Matter supplement for 5th Edition D&D by Mage Hand Press (Kickstarter with sample PDF; store page) to find out what the fewest-in-common Ship Systems were, when I ...
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How to do Spaceship Combat in D&D 5e
I am in the midst of creating a sci-fi space pirate campaign in D&D 5e, and spaceship/spacecraft combat will be inevitable.
I found this MSRD for spaceship combat but it's extremely complicated, ...
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Can someone without the Mark of Storm change the direction of an airship?
In our Eberron campaign, airships are more common than usual. The bad guy in my adventure hides on an already flying airship, kills the pilot and crashes the airship against a castle next to the ...
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Can a non-mount pull a cart?
To illustrate the situation in a more relatable way, I have a lvl 3 halfling drakewarden ranger who wants to circumvent the whole "it only becomes a mount at lvl 7" argument by hitching it ...
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How much water can a ship take on before sinking?
My players are currently in a naval battle. The wizard used Disintegrate on the enemy warship's hull and now water is getting inside the ship.
I remember reading something about that in the Ghosts of ...
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What is the AC of Land Vehicles?
In regards to the AC and HP of vehicles, the DMG includes a table on Water and Air vehicles on page 119. However, no analogous table exists for Land Vehicles.
I am aware of the rules on Objects in ...
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Is there Vehicle Speed Errata for the DMG?
Recently, I have have been preparing the times for journeys over land and by sea for an upcoming session. When I told my players about my calculations, one of them said that my info in the DMG under ...
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How much time and money would be needed to make a giant magic submarine?
My group is level 19 and we are currently messing around on an island chain near the coast. Our whole team is into the idea of making an epic-level submarine. Our Wizard, Artificer and me (the Bard) ...
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Is there any way to have more than one ship in Starfinder?
This question stems from How much does a spaceship cost? and is a side question that came up in discussion there.
I know that you build, upgrade, or replace your ship with build points.
However, ...
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How to make air/sea/space battles between ships fun?
My PCs are on board a ship/craft in a game of Rogue Trader I am GMing, and soon will need to defend an area ("You shall not pass" style) against other ship/craft.
I have recently read the The Angry ...
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Does a spelljammer remain flying when in gravity and no one is at the helm?
They have fly speeds, but no (hover) like you'd see on a creature. There is magic holding it aloft when a creature is attuned to the helm and concentrating since the helm is a magic item, and in space ...
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How large are Starship Cores?
A PC wants to store a starship core in a Null-sec Chamber, but I cannot find any information regarding the actual physical size of a starship core and the safety equipment that goes along with it.
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Waterborne Vehicle Carrying Capacity
In the Mounts and Vehicles section of the PHB it mentions that the animal(s) pulling the vehicle determine its carrying capacity. What determines the carrying capacity of the "waterborne vehicles" ...
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Would a moving ship break glyphs of warding?
Say a wizard wishes to have his ship able to repair itself mid-combat. Were he to have multiple glyphs of warding storing the fabricate spell cast on the hull of his ship, alongside sufficient spare ...
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Where can I find the hit points for vehicles?
In the PHB (pg. 157), it lists various mounts and vehicles:
For the animals, such as horses and elephants, etc, their hit points can be found under their listings in the Monster Manual.
But what ...
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Can a siege weapon "see" its target?
In another question, I was considering the mechanics of siege weaponry (and Spelljammer's ship-to-ship weapons, more to the point). I considered use of the faerie fire spell as a way to gain advantage ...
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Do you need proficiencies for riding?
I can't find any rules if there are specific skills needed to be able to use a mount or a vehicle. Animal Handling seems to be for when your mount is getting spooked, and vehicle proficiency seems to ...
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What source contains a vehicle made from a dead beholder?
A vehicle created from the corpse of a beholder, with the main eye and organs removed to make room for a pilot's seat, was published somewhere in 3.5 or 3ed Dungeons & Dragons. Does anyone know ...
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Does a Light Fighter fit inside the cargo hold of a Free Trader Type A?
Could a light fighter (Mongoose Traveller core rulebook, p. 136) fit into the cargo zone of a Free Trader Type A (p. 117)?
If yes, how much cargo space will it use — its tonnage of 10 tons? Or more, ...
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How much damage do vehicle weapons vs. personal size chars
Planetary scale armor is 10x personal scale armor according to the rulebook. But I didn't find any statement about the damage itself. Is this also taken by x10?
Thus if a starship or speeder with ...
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Do TIE Fighters use minion rules?
A thing that currently confuses me is the stat block of the TIE pilot showing that they are normally are minions. But what about space fights? In space combat are they still used according to minion ...
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Are there any ways to improve a siege weapon's attack bonus?
I've just gotten started reading the new Spelljammer book for 5th Edition D&D. I see that shipboard weapons work the same way siege weapons work in the DMG: It takes multiple actions to load, aim, ...
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How can my character gain proficiency in vehicles (water)?
Our party inadvertently captured a ship.
Is there any way to gain a proficiency now that we're 6th level? If I have to wait two more levels to get the Skilled feat, I'm afraid we'll end up sinking ...
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How does the Mounted Combatant feat interact with Infernal War Machines?
The new Baldur's Gate - Descent into Avernus hardcover features a brand new mechanic: Infernal War Machines! A few things caught my eye - first off, that they have a stat block:
An infernal war ...
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Is it possible to turn Tenser's Floating Disk into a chariot?
Is it possible to turn Tenser's Floating Disk into a chariot in AD&D 1st edition?
There are several problems that I'm not sure can be solved:
How would the harness be attached to the disk?
Can a ...
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How different in size is a keelboat and a longship?
In Ghosts of Saltmarsh, stats for Longships and Keelboats show that they are close to the same size if you measure length and width (70ft x 20ft and 60ft x 20ft, respectively), but are very different ...
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