The all-important Boatiness Quotient

[jnelson (Jim Nelson)]

@Draconis

Death on the Stormrider is a 10, as long as you consider an airship to be a boat.

I remember your thread about this:

How do ships?

I am now deeply into the weeds writing a game set onboard a ship, with a crew of NPCs who move around performing their duties as the player sneaks around and tries to solve a murder to clear their name. So far so good. Just one problem. I know very little about ships. The setting is specifically a retrofuturistic zeppelin (think steampunk aesthetic), so I can take a lot of artistic liberties for the sake of the story and the gameplay. But I also know we have both mariners and naval historians …