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Timlin, The Ship that Sailed to Mars, George G. Harrap & Company, London (1923) .  \nIf you wish to distribute this work, please contact the author.  \nThis work refers to characters, concepts, and ideas presented in roleplaying game books and products. It is intended as an example of how these products can be integrated into a role-playing campaign, as they are intended to be used, and is fully cited. No challenge to the copyright or trademark status of any of the works cited within is intended. The author retains the rights to original  \nmaterial herein.  \nTable of Contents  \nContents  \nIntroduction ................................................. 2  \nCharacter Description Shorthand ................ 3  \nAlbaithorquduump ...................................... 4  \nAr’theren ................................................... 10  \nBlack Deliverance ..................................... 16  \nDragazhar ................................................. 18  \nElentári ..................................................... 21  \nFisher King ............................................... 26  \nFlowfish..................................................... 31  \nFlow Ghost................................................ 35  \nHanali's Sword.......................................... 39  \nIlidthrokata ............................................... 45  \nLacanha..................................................... 48  \nNight Prowler............................................ 50  \nNucharnut ................................................. 55  \nRebuttal ..................................................... 59  \nResplendent ............................................... 63  \nOathtaker .................................................. 67  \nSilent Star I ............................................... 70  \nWindsong................................................... 75  \nBibliography ............................................. 79  \nIntroduction  \nBack in the late 1990s, many online Spelljammer fans discussed the setting on the Spelljammer Mailing List. It jumped from server to server over the years, but stayed fairly consistent in tone and membership. I have found over the years that we tend to rehash all of the same old arguments (dropping boulders from orbit as weapons of mass destruction, the  \ncapabilities of ‘fighters’ in Spelljammer, ect.) Those discussion grew repetitive quickly and frankly were sort of boring (they still are). Worst of all, they didn’t provide any new setting content and that was what we all craved.  \nEven when we did get new material, it wasn’t usually very usable outside the poster’s campaign or it was very broad – new ship types being very popular for some reason. I still feel we have plenty of official ship types. What I thought we needed most were detailed descriptions of individual ships, mini-dungeons that players could encounter while sailing the stellar main. I was especially interested in traders, naval vessels, pirates, and so forth in other words the \"workaday\" type vessels which keep the space lanes going.  \nI had already posted a few such vessels (the Lacanha, the Oathbound, and Hanali's Sword) and hoped to inspire more. So, I started the “Unique Ship” a.k.a. Unique NPC Ships threads back in August of 1997, posting the Elentári to get the ball rolling. It worked fairly well, 36 ships I didn’t design were submitted to the the three challenges (these can be found at Beyond the Moons \u003C [http://www.spelljammer.org/](http://www.spelljammer.org/)>) .  \nI didn’t have the rights to those vessels, of course, but I realized recently I have a large number of ships I have designed myself, enough for a large pdf. These are all designed with 2nd edition Advanced Dungeon and Dragons statistics, including kits. That’s the system I u","cbCaibIHsroB9sAc","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibIHsroB9sAc","pdf",3545296,83,"English","# Introduction\n## Character Description Shorthand\n## Ship entries and profiles\n## Bibliography","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the “Unique Ships” compilation?\",\"answer\":\"It provides detailed, usable descriptions of individual ships for the Spelljammer role-playing campaign setting, intended to be integrated into play.\"},{\"question\":\"What shorthand format does the document use for NPC descriptions?\",\"answer\":\"NPCs are described as Name (alignment race gender class level notes), with multi-class and dual-class handled via slashes and parentheses for dormant classes.\"},{\"question\":\"How are player encounter or usable ship ideas positioned in the introduction?\",\"answer\":\"The author argues that forum discussions repeated old arguments and lacked new setting content, motivating this collection to supply specific vessels players can encounter while sailing the stellar main.\"}]","Unique Ships - Buccaneers and Adventurers amid the Stellar Main | PDF",1791249463,128]