Illustration Xan Drake

SHIP: The Black Beacon

horatio.fairburn
Challenge 9
(5,000 XP)
Robinloft Estimated CR 7
Gargantuan construct (3 decks, crew: 20, sailing ship), unaligned
Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
Hit Points 115 (10d20+10)
Speed 0 ft., swim 100 ft.
STR
12 (+1)
DEX
14 (+2)
CON
12 (+1)
INT
0 (-5)
WIS
0 (-5)
CHA
6 (-2)
Saving Throws Dex +6
Skills Deception +2, Intimidation +2, Stealth +6
Damage Vulnerabilities fire
Damage Resistances necrotic, radiant; slashing from nonmagical attacks
Damage Immunities poison, psychic
Condition Immunities blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, incapacitated, paralyzed, poisoned, prone, stunned, unconscious
Senses passive Perception 5
Languages
Environments
Captain’s Censer of Controlling Air Elementals.

SHIP: The Black Beacon is equipped with a legendary version of a censer of controlling air elementals. While the censer is aboard the ship with incense burning inside, it operates as the rare version of the item, except that it casts conjure elemental as a 9th-level spell.

Additionally, it gives SHIP: The Black Beacon spells which can be activated with an action by any ship’s officer aboard the ship. If the spell can be ended, any officer on board can do so with the appropriate action.

Once per month, the censer can be used to cast control weather.

Seafarer’s Map Table.

This magical map has been bound to SHIP: The Black Beacon, and features a small ship figurine made from the ship’s timber.

The map shows the surroundings in a 30 mile radius around the ship. It depicts the landscape, settlements, and seafaring vessels. Anyone at the table can speak a command word and point to a location or vessel to name it. The name appears as neat writing on the map.

(Item created by @bonus_action)

Sinkable.

Whenever SHIP: The Black Beacon starts its turn with 50 hit points or fewer, it is actively sinking and must make DC 10 Constitution saves every turn. If SHIP: The Black Beacon has 0 hit points, it automatically fails its saving throws to avoid sinking. On a failed save, one of the ships decks is completely filled with water. If all the decks are filled, the ship has sunk and drops to 0 hit points.

Repairing the ship so that it has more than 50 hit points stops the checks or saves but does not remove any water. If at least half of SHIP: The Black Beacon’s minimum crew spend an action bailing over two turns, they can restore a ship’s deck. Some magics may be able to remove water from a deck, at the DM’s discretion.

Innate Spellcasting. SHIP: The Black Beacon's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 10, +2 to hit with spell attacks). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: feather fall
1/day each: gust of wind (directed at the sails with a 1-hour duration), wind wall (can treat the water's surface as the ground)

Actions

Multiattack. SHIP: The Black Beacon attacks three times with its cannons. All the cannons must be on the same side of the ship.
Broadside Cannons. Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 150/600 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d10 + 2) bludgeoning damage. If the target is in front of or behind the ship, the attack automatically misses.
Ramming Attack. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 0 ft., one target. Hit: 24 (5d8 + 2) piercing damage. This attack can only be made after a move action of at least 60 feet, and can only target creatures or objects directly in front of SHIP: The Black Beacon that are in the water or directly at the water’s edge.
Alchemist’s Cannonball (3/Day).

One of the cannons is loaded with a special cannonball which contains an alchemical solution. If the cannonball hits, it deals an additional 6d6 damage of the appropriate type. SHIP: The Black Beacon only has one of each cannonball type, Fire, Cold, and Acid.

Reactions

Broadside Retort. If SHIP: The Black Beacon is hit by enemy cannon fire on the side which did not fire the cannons on its previous turn, it can immediately make a multiattack against that enemy.

SHIP: The Black Beacon

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