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Captains and Cannons: a Guide to Ship Combat in Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition. The bestselling DMs Guild title is now available for Fantasy Grounds!

This ruleset explains how to run a ship battle in your campaign. Whether you want to fight on lashed-together longships, blast enemies with the cannons of your carrack, or just ram rowboats, this ruleset has everything you need.

Designed to be scalable, flexible, fast, and easy to learn, Captains and Cannons is here to make your naval based campaign come true.

Includes:

  • Easy to learn rules on how to run ship combat encounters
  • 13 sample ships to use and adapt for your own campaign
  • 6 sample combat encounters, each with their own plot hooks, unique ship, and captains.
  • 4 sample "environmental challenges," complex weather patterns modelled after the complex traps in Xanathar's Guide to Everything.
  • List of ship equipment to upgrade and customise your vessel to fit your way of playing.
Fantasy Grounds Features:
  • Fully featured DM and player manuals.
  • Quick reference sheets
  • Fantasy Grounds tips and item utilities for quickly creating custom ships and running vehicle encounters
  • Oceanic battle map
  • Ship tokens

Reviews:

Mister Tarrasque: "If you're looking for a simple, yet deep ruleset to run a naval campaign, you should get Captains and Cannons."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJnuq3NpIyk

JVC Parry: "If you and your group are looking for a realistic way to simulate naval combat in your D&D game that adheres to the basic principles of D&D 5e combat then this is certainly the supplement for you! 4.5/5."

https://jvcparry.com/2018/11/21/review-captains-cannons/

Non Zero Sum Games: "For the cost of a fast-food meal you can have a supplement that you will access time and time again. 4.6/5"

http://www.nonzerosumgames.com/captains-cannons-a-dms-guild-review/

Contact:

Email: driftersgameworkshop@gmail.com 

Twitter: @drifterworkshop

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Aaron C December 20, 2021 8:15 pm UTC
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Almost everything about the module is great however my biggest complaint would be the tokens. Quite frankly they are not worth mentioning at all and useless for any serious campaign in fantasy grounds. They are not much more than black outlines with a low-resolution white background and the weapon tokens are normal but have a strange white background rather than clear one so they stick out like a sore thumb when placed on the map. I think it is a bit misleading to include that there are 13 unique ships but they do not come with unique or interesting tokens at all. It's still worth 10 dollars however and the detail is still very good quality just keep this in mind if you want to buy it.
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Jason P December 08, 2020 10:08 pm UTC
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I know the Harvesting Guides for FG still don't work in Unity without some editing of an XML file within the Module. Will this function with FGU without editing?
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Glen S April 11, 2020 12:41 am UTC
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Just a follow-up here years later. The mod is not supported in Fantasy Ground Unity, only Classic. Just tried to reload this awesome mod and now I can't use it anymore.

Any updates on this being converted or possibly allowing us who purchased this for classic get the PDF? I mean, eventually it will be full Unity I assume with Fantasy Grounds.
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Glen S April 11, 2020 5:56 pm UTC
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Correction here. Was able to get it working. You will not see the module on the module list when you start the game, but you will see the module listed in the library after you create the game.

It does seem some of the text like for the in-game guide is missing every 6th line or so, but all the tables, items, npc's, etc all load fine! This issue may be with FGU not the module itself, but figured I would note it.
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Austin W January 15, 2020 11:11 pm UTC
What is the difference between this and just the PDF that is 7.99? Do you get the pdf with this and then extra stuff or is this different?

Thanks
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Jasmine Y January 16, 2020 3:44 am UTC
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This product is adapted for virtual tabletop games like Roll20. It includes the pdf, but if you don't play in spaces like that, you're better off just getting the pdf.
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alex B October 29, 2019 6:00 pm UTC
Got this the other day. Great set of rules.

I'm trying to find a character sheet for the ship though. Did you have any?
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Glen S December 23, 2018 1:17 pm UTC
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Should highlight that the ships are token/items only with no battlemaps. I was confused in thinking that the sample ships were actual battlemaps, not just items. Not a huge issue, but I would bet a good amount of people are trying to find ship battlemaps on top of core rules to run those ships as there is a limited supply of ship battlemaps out there.

I know this is mostly focused on ship-to-ship combat, but boarding, grappling, grapeshots, etc are just as much part of the combat too.
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Gerald S November 29, 2018 3:21 am UTC
A product description would be nice. So I dont have to track it down on your other page.
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Jasmine Y November 29, 2018 8:33 pm UTC
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Wow, thanks for letting me know. I didn't realise it hadn't saved when I updated the description.
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Gerald S December 01, 2018 1:36 am UTC
Way more better ;)
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