Ghosts of Saltmarsh

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GHOST

Ghost ships are incorporeal vessels that carry undead

crews. The crews often died in a grisly manner and have

unfinished business that keeps them tethered to the Ma-

terial Plane. They sometimes serve necromancers. but

more often these crews are beholden to no master.

A ghost ship has the same statistics as a normal ship

of its ship type with the following changes:

The ship has resistance to the following damage

types: acid, fire. lightning, and thunder, as well as

bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagi-

cal attacks.

• The ship is immune to cold, necrotic, poison, and psy-
  chic damage.
  The ship can move through other creatures and ob-
  jects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (ldlO)
  force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.
  Crew members and officers on good and neutral
  ghost ships are ghosts. On evil ghost ships, the crew
  members are 90 percent sk el etons and zombies (even
  mix of each). JO percent are specter s, and the officers
  are wraith s.

ATTITUDE AND RACE

Each ship's crew and passengers have an attitude that

guides how they interact with the characters. Friendly

ships seek to trade or share news. neutral ones attack if

they feel threatened and otherwise try to avoid contact.

and hostile ones seek to attack and seize the charac-

ters' ship.

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First, roll or choose an attitude on the Ship Attitude

table, then roll on the appropriate table to determine the

nature of the crew. The race chosen or rolled need not

be the only one found on the ship. and you might use

a cable multiple times to make a ship's crew and pas-

sengers more diverse. Feel free to substitute suggested

statistics for other statistics if you feel they make more

sense with the ship's race (for example. substituting

the bandit statistics with ore statistics on a pirate ship

crewed by ores).

SHIP ATTITUDE

d6 Attitude

1-2 Friendly

3- 4 Neutral

5-6 Hostile

FRIENDLY SHI P

dlOO Race

01 -05 Dragonborn

06-10

11-30

31-40

41-50

51-60

61-00

Dwarves

Elves

Gnomes

Tieflings

Halflings

Humans

NEUTRAL SHIP

dlOO Race

01-05

06-10

11-30

31 - 40

41-50

51 - 60

61-00

Dragonborn

Dwarves

L1zardfolk

Hobgoblins

Ores

Halflings

Humans

HOSTILE SHIP

dlOO Race

01-05

06 - 10

11-30

31 - 40

41-50

51 - 60

61-00

Frost giants

Kobolds

Ores

Hobgoblins

Un dead

Gnolls

Humans

SHIP DTSPOSfTION

Each ship has a disposition that determines events hap-

pening aboard the ship when the characters encounter

it. Choose or roll for a ship's disposition on the Ship

Disposition table. Each disposition is described after the

table. If you roll no special disposition. the ship is under

no unusual stress and reacts based on its attitude.