Ben

Anywho, back to the Keyword. I’m fine with leaving Limit out of it, and go ahead and use it (or any of my other Custom Keywords for that matter) as much or as little as you’d like.

Great, thanks!

Carnage might be OK at 20, just don’t go any lower.  🙂

I think you and GM recommended that it become a written out ability.

I think we probably said that because of the Limit inclusion.  Generally keywords should not be within other keywords.  It’s confusing, easy to forget, and leads to looking up chains of abilities just to see what “one” ability does.

I should have mentioned this when I posted t…[Read more]

This would also apply to derelicts and any other situations where a normal ship couldn’t be given a move action for some reason.

I guess I just fundamentally disagree with the ruling.  If a move action cannot be given to the target, then anything that happens as a result of that “move action” cannot occur.  I don’t think it should matter if the…[Read more]

Clouds of Strelbair
Type: Ship
Faction Affiliation: Barbary Corsair
Rarity: C
Point Value: 16
Number of Masts: 3
Cargo Space: 4
Base Move: S+L
Cannons: 3S-4L-3L
Ability: Galley. Eternal. Hidden Gold.

Flavor text: A mysterious vessel, it is not usually known whether the Clouds of Strelbair is carrying corsairs, gold, both, or neither. She has…[Read more]

In a somewhat related topic, I recently watched this neat program on the BBC about the Spanish Armada. I think you might enjoy it!

Awesome, thanks!  I’ll try to watch it sometime.  Speaking of good long youtube videos, the Gibraltar headline reminded me of this documentary on the discovery of a Spanish shipwreck, which led to an incident off Gib…[Read more]

You can thank @CaptainVendari for that one.  It’s intriguing but as Woelf has said many times, it’s tough to implement a system like that without breaking a lot of the existing rules and abilities.

Are you saying that every ship essentially gets the Captain ability built-in with your rules?

I’m curious though, if more combat is encouraged, how…[Read more]

Captain, EA, and doctor or something along the like. Not crew protection, as that’d be too good, but a third ability could distinguish him somewhat.

Why do you still think Crew Protect is so much better than Doctor?  They accomplish the same thing, and I don’t think there are many loopholes that make Crew Protect better.  Neither protects aga…[Read more]

I have been considering swapping Ándres Santana’s EA with SAT(Once per turn, before you give this ship an action, roll a d6. On a 5-6, this ship may be given the Same Action Twice). On this I ask your opinions.

Definitely don’t; SAT is generally better than EA simply because it’s cheaper but achieves nearly the same effect. (and he would mostly be…[Read more]

@J.: Welcome!

I stopped playing after the sea monsters were released because finding players to play was becoming increasingly difficult.

In your area, do you think that was because of the sea monsters, or just declining popularity of the game in general?

No gameboard is needed and I like how miniatures give me a sense of being high in the sky.

I…[Read more]

Been greatly enjoying the podcast Ben. I’m super appreciative of your dedication to this game after so many years. I was on miniature trading for a while under the same name, but it’s been years since I’ve been active.

Ahoy there, I remember you don’t worry!  Though I remember it as velm with an L rather than 1.  Thanks, glad you’ve been enjoyin…[Read more]