Illustration Xan Drake

SHIP: The Invicta

horatio.fairburn
Challenge 10
(5,900 XP)
Robinloft Estimated CR 10
Gargantuan construct (4 decks, crew: 60, warship), unaligned
Armor Class 20 (natural armor)
Hit Points 232 (16d20+64)
Speed 0 ft., swim 80 ft.
STR
14 (+2)
DEX
10 (+0)
CON
18 (+4)
INT
0 (-5)
WIS
0 (-5)
CHA
5 (-3)
Saving Throws Con +8
Skills Athletics +6, Intimidation +1
Damage Vulnerabilities lightning
Damage Resistances necrotic, radiant; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with adamantine weapons
Damage Immunities poison, psychic
Condition Immunities blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, incapacitated, paralyzed, poisoned, prone, stunned, unconscious
Senses passive Perception 5
Languages —
Environments
Ebony Plating.

The Invicta is plated with Ebony (Adamantine), making it resistant to most attacks, but slowing it down considerably.
Sinkable.

Whenever SHIP: The Invicta 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 Invicta 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 Invicta’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.

Actions

Multiattack. SHIP: The Invicta attacks three times with its cannons. All the cannons must be on the same side of the ship.
Broadside Cannons. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 150/600 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d10) 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. Adamantine. 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 Invicta that are in the water or directly at the water’s edge.

SHIP: The Invicta

Corin Barlow was supposedly an Admiral in the Vinian Navy who was given control of an experimental ship and sent into battle. After steamrolling a fleet of Rorian vessels, Captain Barlow realized that the ship was nigh invincible, but also intuited that by mass-producing them, countermeasures would have to be made by the enemy. Knowing that no other ship could stand up to him, he decided to keep the ship for himself, renaming it to The Invicta. Vinia has not yet made another, perhaps fearing it too would be stolen, and has placed an enormous bounty on Captain Backstabber Barlow.

Described by horatio.fairburn

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