TheSagaContinues

Yeah I saw another ship entry that had both heavy proton torpedoes and heavy concussion missiles and both damage entries were wrong lol.  There's enough evidence for me to believe both weapons are real.

For super-heavy concussion missiles: Jehavey'ir-Type Assault Ship is one of the ships equipped with them.

The Acclamator II is one of the ships equipped with Heavy Proton Torpedoes.

And yes I have noticed that the damage stats on ships seem to be off, though it seems that some include fire-linked bonuses, and there's a ship with Heavy Concussion Missiles that has the damage and capacity for medium concussion missiles.

So the ship's stats don't contribute to skills except for DX-related skills?  Mechanics, Perception, and Use Computer are totally character based, whether they be PC or NPC?

If you understand what crew quality adds to the skill modifiers you see the dirty way of figuring out how a ship modifies those skills is to remove the generic crew's contribution (like the +6 of a skilled crew) and then add the PC's modifier for that skill.

You'll often find that Initiative and Pilot are the same as Pilot can be used as Initiative.  A LOT of things you do with a vehicle are modified by what I sometimes call "maneuverability" which is essentially the size penalty you see plus the vehicle's DEX modifier.  Maneuverability factors into Pilot, Initiative, and if you look in Starships of the Galaxy it will also apply to some uses of Deception and Stealth.

A lot of the time a vehicle will be "using Sensor" in place of an actual "Perception" value as the distance penalties in Starship scale are massive.

One thing you do NOT see but may argue should be included on rolls is the ship's INT when making Use Computer checks under the assumption that the ship should be helpful to its own crew.

I've got the NPC stuff figured out mostly.  It's what to do with PCs that frustrates the hell out of me, especially the non-DX skills: Mechanics, Perception, and Use Computer.

So I'm looking at some ship statistic blocks and some have Vehicular Combat and some don't.  What separates those that do from those that don't?