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Two Bit Tables: Ship Names for the Whole Fleet
Publisher: Healing Fireball
by Christopher H. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 09/15/2008 01:57:12

Sometime after I posted my initial review of this product, HFP updated the product with half a dozen--I kid you not--additional tables, well more than doubling the utility of this collection. The added tables are two-column ship name generators, that is, you roll once on the "descriptor" column and once on the "name" column to get a random ship name. The six new tables offer colorful (e.g., the "Scarlet Sails"; 400 combinations), possessive (e.g., "Emily's Revenge"; 400 combinations), whimsical (100 combinations), militaristic (100 combinations), angry (100 combinations), and "miscellaneous" (100 combinations). They've also appended additional lists of common ship prefixes--I won't use these much in my fantasy games, but they're very useful for modern-era games. The original product was already a good buy for 50¢, and the additions really do add that much more value to the product.



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[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Two Bit Tables: Ship Names for the Whole Fleet
Publisher: Healing Fireball
by Christopher H. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 09/10/2008 02:15:45

I've recently started a maritime D&D campaign, so I bought this set of Two Bit Tables for the purpose of--yeah, you guessed it--coming up with ship names without having to think too hard. I have to confess I'm a little disappointed in this installment in the series, though. In the "Historic Battle Name Generator," TBT gives us tables that combine different elements to randomly produce a vast array of names and phrases. The "Ship Names" product, though, seems to take the easy way out by just giving lists of 50 pirate ship names, 50 merchant ship names, and 50 military ship names. I also felt that some of the names seemed rather uninspired; I mean, five of the pirate ship names are "Death's [Noun]" (and why are two of the apostrophes "straight" while three are "curly"?), three are "Neptune's [Noun]," and there area whole bunch of pairs in the pattern "[Adjective-1] [Noun-1]," "[Adjective-1] [Noun-2]." The other tables show similar patterns. This may seem a petty complaint, but in reality, this kind of repetition makes the tables only half (or less) as useful as they could be, since once my PCs are attacked by pirates aboard the "Devil's Kiss," you can bet that they're not going to run into pirates aboard the "Devil's Revenge." Oh, and somebody please tell the author of this product that it's a "dreadnought," not a "dreadnot." Overall, I'd have to rate these tables as slightly below average for this series.



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