Hammership

Airship

Flying Caravel
Size/Type: Colossal Vehicle
Seaworthiness: +2
Shiphandling: +2
Speed: Wind x 30 ft.
Wind: 1-1/2 mph in Light Wind
Overall Armor Class: -3
Hull Sections: 24
Sink: 6
Section HP: 80 (hardness 5)
Section AC: 3
Rigging Section: 3
Rigging HP: 80 (hardness 0)
Rigging AC: 1
Ram: 4d6
Mounts: 2 light and 1 Heavy
Space: 60 ft x 20 ft.
Height: 10 ft. (draft 10 ft.)
Complement(Crew & Passengers/Watch/Rowers): (30/7/N/A)
Cargo: 120 tons, (Speed wind × 15 ft. if 20 tons or more);
Cost: 10,000 gp

• Okay, firstly, time for more room...

Doubled the ships's size.

• Time to add stuff, looking at Stronghold Builder's Guide...

Making the base ship costs 20,000 gp, leaving Quin with 180,000 gp...

A Basic Armory costs 500 gp, and equips 25 soldiers
A Barracks costs 400 gp, and holds 10 people
A Basic Bedroom is 700 gp.
A Basic Bedroom Suite is 800 gp.
A Basic Chapel is 1000 gp.
A Basic Common Area is 500 gp.
A Basic Dining Hall is 2000 gp, holds 20 people, and requires a kitchen.
A Basic Kitchen costs 2000 gp, and feeds 15 people
A Prison Cell costs 500 gp.
A Basic Smithy costs 500 gp.
A Basic Storage costs 250 gp.
A Basic Study costs 200 gp.
A Basic Tavern costs 900 gp.

Clusters
Army Base takes up 29 spaces, costs 24, 000 gp...

Okay, jumping into purchasing components seems premature...
Let's identify some priorities for this ship in the name of magic...

• Stealth
• Mobility
• Combat

Prioritized

1. Mobility
2. Stealth
3. Combat

Mobility

• Strategic
• Tactical

Strategic movement would best be accomplished with Teleport Spells.

Tactical movement would best be established by ensuring the airship always has a wind, AND, can move fast.
So, Haste, some kind of Gust of Wind spells, and possibly, the ability to Dimension Door.

There are no rules for this kind of thing, and the idea of a single casting of Haste affecting an entire ship is a big N. O.
For pricing, it must be able to affect the full complement.
120 people.

Covering the entire ship in 120 Teleportation Circles will cost 120,000 gp at a minimum.
Not ideal....

A ninth-level wizard can cast Teleport for 450 gp, and it would carry... 4 people.
It would cost 13,500 gp, to enchant the ship, to be able to make jumps of 900 miles each, once per hour.
Another 450 gp, and the ship could teleport 4 other people as if itself were an ninth-level caster, once per hour.
The cost to make this Permanent...
Brings the price up to 27, 900 gp.

Not bad.

Okay, what happens if we go to a 12th-level wizard?
He charges...
600 gp per casting, but each one carries five people, so it only needs to be cast 24 times.
Which costs us 14,400 gp...
Mhmmm. That's not good.
We lost money.
Okay, the math checks out, going mimimum caster-level is more cost effective.

Okay, for Greater Teleport, we need a 13th-level wizard.
It costs 900 gp per casting... Still only carries 5 people.
So, no good.
Teleport it is.

Our wizard casting the Permanency spell is going to be doing a lot of work on us, so he'll drop discounts.

Haste will let our airship fly faster.
Control Winds is too dangerous.
Gust of Winds will do.

Gust of Wind doesn't affect creatures...
I'll say, ten castings should be enough to covering the entire rigging and deck.

Dimension Door could have interesting potential.

Haste is a 3rd-level spell.
It can be cast by a 5th-level wizard.
Each casting will effect 5 people, cost 150 gp.
It will have to be cast... 24 times...
So, 3600 gp.
Permanency will cost 10,800 gp, and with a 20% discount, that'll cost 8640.

Gust of Wind Favorable Wind costs 60 gp when cast by a 3rd-level wizard.
10 castings cost 600 gp.
The Permanency of it costs 4500 gp, with a 10% discount, so 4050...
Total 4650gp.

NOTE: A Gust of Wind produces a 50 mph wind, which is actually Severe, and bad for sailing, with Light to Strong Winds being the best.
the Favorable Wind spell produces a 30 mph wind.

Let's check out speed.

By RAW, the longship moves at 1 to 1 and a half miles in a light wind.
With Haste, this speed is doubled, no problem, to 2 to 3 miles in a light wind.
With a Strong Wind, provided by a Favorable Wind, it can move 6 to 9 miles per hour.
In the space of a day, it can travel 144 to 216 miles with the wind alone.

The ability to use the Dimension Door spell will cement the ships maneuverability.
it costs 280 gp per casting, and each casting can take 3 people up to 680 ft.
That'll cost 11200 gp. With 18000 gp to make it permanent, and a 33% discount to make it 12000 gp.

So, 23200gp for Dimension Door.

Alright, so Mobility is handled.
The airship can now move about the world with ease.
And can easily, in the course of a single day, travel 21,816 miles.

The Dimension Door enchantment is still 'iffy', and can be dropped to make room for something else.


Next, is Stealth.
Invisibility is obvious.
The naked eye can see up to 3 miles, while true seeing only has a range of 120 ft.
Even an illusion of a cloud is impractical.
Silence might be worth it.

There are three spells that provide protection from sight...
Invisibility, Invisibility Sphere and Greater Invisibility.

Invisibility works on 1 person.
So, 120 60 gp castings comes out to 61,200 gp, without the discount. Not good.
The Permanency is killing us.

An Invisibility Sphere will cover 12 people.
So, 10 150 gp castings comes out to 6000 gp, and will have a 10% discount. Better.

A Mass Invisibility spell will cover 4000 people.
So, 1 casting for 1360 gp will take the ship. No discount.
Two castings, and everyone on the ship is invisible too.
That's what I call perfect.

A Silence or even a Zone of Silence Enchantment doesn't really make sense...

Alright...
Some top-notch protective spells for combat.
Firstly, Haste on everyone onboard the ship...

Magic Circle Against Evil
Holy Aura
Hide from Undead
Consecrate
Guards and Wards
Spell Turning
Globe of Invulnerability
Mage's Private Sanctum
Protection from Energy
Protection from Arrows

Thoughts...
...but first, let's see what I can mount up on this puppy.

Okay, I'm gonna take a break.
=D

A Light Ballista is 500 gp.
A Light Catapult is 550 gp.

You're giving the ship itself the ability to teleport? That's pretty intense. Is that the point of the ship? Shouldn't it just be able to go fast, on a ship-scale? And anywhere-it-wants, since it's not tied to waterways?

You might want to add some sort of Wind Wall effect, too. Look in Eberron for info on skyships, maybe. They use a bound air elemental to power the flight.

Mass Invisibility sounds great. What's so bad about making it look like a cloud? Illusions are cool! Mirage Arcana or Hallucinatory Terrain would do that kind of trick. Guards and Wards kind of accomplishes that, too, with obscuring mist piling off the ship as it flies.

I sometimes wonder... They have a bottles that creates infinite water, fog, and sand. Wonder how much it would cost for 'wind'. :P

That is some serious mass spell jiggery-pokery. O.o

Its a big world, I think it makes sense.
And it can go fast in tactical movement.

I'll check it out.

Because a lone cloud, low from the sky is suspicious?
If you see a cloud 400 ft off the ground, throw Fireballs at it.

A bottle of wind would have too focused an opening and would just punch a hole or strain the sails.

I'm only doing it this way because I can find no rules for what I'm doing.
My basic formula is that if you want to enchant the whole thing, you enchant it enough times to cover everyone on board.
Seems to be doing well.

What about as a jet propulsion to propel you though?

Wind doesn't work that way.

... Really man?
You're going to talk to me about how unrealistic a wind powered jet propulsion system is compared to a flying 'battle ship' that teleports along with other things?
Really?
XD j/k

Bottles of water, air, sand, whatever, create just that.
They don't create pressure.

That's how magic works.
It doesn't create high and low pressure gradients, or cool and hot difference in air temperature.
It creates wind.
That's it.

Oh I was just yanking your leg man!

An item that came to mind that might be of interest if your depending on 'wind power'...
Seems to be a updated version of Wind-Favored Sails from Arms & Equipment (pg 51).

But that's just to cover the people. You're teleporting the boat.

Just as a for example, let's look at just teleport. It has strict limitations based on size.

More mass = more energy to transfer.

You factor the cost for just the people. How many medium size creatures is a flying airship?

I'm cool if you just want to eyeball it. I like less random work for the DM. But my jiggery-pokery statement stands.

Hmmmm.
Seems to be more expensive for some reason...
=P

I know, I'm calculating how many people the boat can carry.
Which is 120.

Too many to count.
I know what you're saying, but technically, this is the crafting of a massive magic item/artifact.
I'm gonna bend the rules.
The passengers will be the final factor.
Especially since the teleport object spell, even into metamagic'd epic levels isn't up to the task.

Well the Everfull sails make the vessel go full speed for 12k.
Lesser Wind-Favored make the vessel go max of x3 for 40.5k.
Greater Wind-Favored just lets the driver set the wind direction within 600ft for 67.5k.

*shrugs shoulders*

And 10 Favorable Winds cost 4,650 gp

What's this?

Two sails that are in Arms & Equipment. I kinda assumed that Everfull is a 3.5 'upgrade' for the 3.0 items.

Maybe the Everfull is a better idea, with the gusts being backups for non-magical sails...

I don't know, some custom XX-large, pressurized bottles of air strapped to the sides of the ship as backup jet engines would be cool. Say, Cost X2 for the size, then X2 again for the pressure. 7250X4= 29k Ehh, little too pricey.

Bottles of air don't create pressure.
You could make a bottle of air big enough to stand in, and hang the jar from two strings...
...it will.
Not.
Move.

=P

I'm aware of that. Hence,
:P

But how does one make pressure?
=P

It'd be easier to just use the Bigby Hand spells to create sustained force!
XD

You pack more air inside! You alter the parameters of the item from;
"Create infinite air to fill this bottle"
to
"Create infinite air to fill this bottle to a standard density of (insert required psi)"

It's magic!

Oh! Or there is the Lightning Turbine (90k) that as long as its getting hit by lightning [Storm Bolt squads anyone?] it sets the speed to 90ft or doubles it whichever is greater. Now you can live the Korra Lightning Bender dream of working in the power plant for minimum wage!

I've only got 200,000 gp.

And 90 ft. per round is only a boost of 1 mph from Haste.
Not worth it.

Is the main reason I posted it. But yeah, having only 200k kinda kills that. Still an interesting do-hickey.

I'm good with the permanent favorable winds.
And I just realized its specifically good enough to power one ship.
I only need one casting.