Proficiency/Vehicles and Siege Engines/List

From Kronopolis and the Flat Plane

This is a list of Vehicle and Siege Engine Proficiencies.

Air Vehicles

Acts and knowledge related to air vehicles, including examining, analyzing and working most parts of the vehicle. Air vehicle examples include: airships, air balloons, gliders and any other flying aircrafts.

Air vehicles traverse the air, propelled most often by advanced engineering, alchemical designs, captured elementals or magic. In some cases, most often in larger air vehicles, a mix of air currents, alchemical engines and magic are combined.

Airship Movement

  • Because of their nature, traveling through all three dimensions instead of only two, one general rule is applied: When an airship ascends, they must do so at half their current speed. When air vehicles descend, they can (but do not have to) move at double their current speed. After the ascent or descent, treat the vehicle’s current speed as it was before making the ascent or descent.

Land Vehicles

Acts and knowledge related to land vehicles, including examining, analyzing and working most parts of the vehicle. Land vehicle examples include: carriages, carts, chariots, wagons and any other land vehicles.

Land vehicles carry occupants and cargo over hard earth or similar terrain. They are typically propelled by muscle, but can be moved by a variety of propulsion methods.

Water Vehicles

Acts and knowledge related to water vehicles, including examining, analyzing and working most parts of the vehicle. Water vehicle examples include: Ships, boats and any other water vessels, like surfboards.

Water vehicles move across bodies of water, whether as small as a river or as large as an ocean. They are typically propelled by muscle or sail, but can be moved by a variety of propulsion methods.

Siege Engines

Acts and knowledge related to siege engines, including examining, analyzing and working most parts of the vehicle. Siege engines examples include: Ballistae, battering rams, cannons, catapults, siege towers and trebuchets.

Siege engines are large tools that are designed to break or circumvent heavy fortifications like castle doors, thick city walls or ship hulls in siege warfare. Some siege weapons can also be used on the battlefield as a larger ranged weapon, mainly helpful in breaking up formations and demoralization.