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Ran a Pirate campaign once. Had a pirate faction of Dwarfs called the Reefbeards. They lived up, under and along the water for so long, they had colorful corals growing in their beards. They also had a lot of cool technology, so they shot grapplehooks to swing over and ran around with entire cannons on their back.
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My previous character was a Dwarf Marine (barbarian, path of the ancestral guardian). He was wielding an anchor as a 2-handed weapon. He met his fate killing a sub-boss.
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tall ships are a hate crime to dwarves
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I have issue with almost all of your points. - Dex & wisdom would be the important stats for sailors IMO (i am not saying strength and con are useless, but just not as important, they would be 3rd and 4th IMO). - Darkvision wouldn't do a damn thing, its range would barely get off the side of the boat. - Poison resistance is not disease resistance. - Some spoiled food would be poison, but some would also be disease (depends on how it spoiled and the food). - In order for short stature to be relevant to ship design, they would need a completely custom designed ship tailor made for them, which would have benifits but sounds unlikely for what pirates would be sailing. (That being said, a dwarven merchant ship designed speciifcally for their stature would be a massive pain for normal height characters to battle on) - lower speed means they swim slower too which means going overboard is even worse.For sure wisdom being the highest priority unless they always sail near the coast, but to be fair you only need 2 people with high wisdom
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One of my favorite campaigns I was a tempest cleric dwarf in a sea campaign. She came from a clan of dwarves that would take longboats along river coasts downstream from a mother clan's mountain mining to find pockets of washed down minerals. It was so fun and eventually she started her own seafaring clan the Sundersalt. We were based on an island but controlled a lot of trade in the area with ships modeled after Korean turtle ships
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The copper dwarves are excellent sailors.
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Feels like a pitch from corporate. "Clearly dwarves are the most cost effective solution." "How will the dwarves feel about eating spoiled food and being separated from everything their culture cherishes?" "Excellent question and the answer is simple: Rum and spiced Whiskey."
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I have issue with almost all of your points. - Dex & wisdom would be the important stats for sailors IMO (i am not saying strength and con are useless, but just not as important, they would be 3rd and 4th IMO). - Darkvision wouldn't do a damn thing, its range would barely get off the side of the boat. - Poison resistance is not disease resistance. - Some spoiled food would be poison, but some would also be disease (depends on how it spoiled and the food). - In order for short stature to be relevant to ship design, they would need a completely custom designed ship tailor made for them, which would have benifits but sounds unlikely for what pirates would be sailing. (That being said, a dwarven merchant ship designed speciifcally for their stature would be a massive pain for normal height characters to battle on) - lower speed means they swim slower too which means going overboard is even worse.Dex is good, but IMO it's not as vital as Con. Sailors were dying a LOT, and it wasn't from accidents. Con would help a lot with diseases (those were rather common on sailing ships), the exhaustion inherent to working on a sailing ship and the lack of nutritious food. And scorbut, which is a disease, was one of the biggest issues historically. Darkvision might not do jack for navigation, but it *would* be very useful when you need to work day and night. The OP never even mentioned pirates. AFAIK most sailors couldn't swim at all, and when would the lower speed actually be an issue? In most cases, it's all about whether you get exhausted before you're at your destination. Great point with the submarines, though.
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Darkvision limited to 60ft. Nighttime navigation was based on stars. A ship can barely contain enough ale to last a dwarf a month, let alone an entire crew...
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I have issue with almost all of your points. - Dex & wisdom would be the important stats for sailors IMO (i am not saying strength and con are useless, but just not as important, they would be 3rd and 4th IMO). - Darkvision wouldn't do a damn thing, its range would barely get off the side of the boat. - Poison resistance is not disease resistance. - Some spoiled food would be poison, but some would also be disease (depends on how it spoiled and the food). - In order for short stature to be relevant to ship design, they would need a completely custom designed ship tailor made for them, which would have benifits but sounds unlikely for what pirates would be sailing. (That being said, a dwarven merchant ship designed speciifcally for their stature would be a massive pain for normal height characters to battle on) - lower speed means they swim slower too which means going overboard is even worse.The height being an issue for other creatures gave me a funny thought. If dwarves didn't build massive structures and instead built for their height, people invading them would have such an issue. You'd have dwarves running through halls chopping at them while they're crawling around or bent down. Invaders wouldn't stand a chance.
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indeed, get boarded by someone without darkvision/good light source? just retreat below decks and slaughter themProbably a bad idea. If I was leading a boarding party, and all the defender's retreated below decks, I'd consider it a victory. Take down the sails, pin the rudder, then park my ship outside of their cannons' firing arc. Then just wait. Maybe have my crew bring over buckets of shit, vomit, or whatever other vile substances we could find, and dump them down the grates. If I got real desperate, I could just board up the doors and set the ship on fire. Sure, I'll miss out on most of the treasure, but those dwarves will probably burn to death before the boat totally sinks.
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Probably a bad idea. If I was leading a boarding party, and all the defender's retreated below decks, I'd consider it a victory. Take down the sails, pin the rudder, then park my ship outside of their cannons' firing arc. Then just wait. Maybe have my crew bring over buckets of shit, vomit, or whatever other vile substances we could find, and dump them down the grates. If I got real desperate, I could just board up the doors and set the ship on fire. Sure, I'll miss out on most of the treasure, but those dwarves will probably burn to death before the boat totally sinks.
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I like the mental image of a dwarf ship that's 6 ft tall and got 47 masts to make up for it.
