Editing Airship (section)

==[[Pathfinder]]==
Airships are given stats in ''Ultimate Combat''. They’re essentially a giant hot air balloon, that’s lighter than air via alchemy, with a wooden platform attached under it and propelled by an unspecified but large magic device. They can carry 30 tons of cargo (compare to the 50 tons of a viking style longship and 150 of a proper sailing ship).

Airships would later appear in one module set in Alkenstar (a land where magic is fucked up and technology is higher to compensate), but their existence there is pure window dressing and only serves to describe how the PCs get from point a to b with no encounters and gives no details on them, though the presence of dedicated docks for them indicates they’re at least reasonably known within the country itself. The setting already established that Alkenstar is very jealous of its guns and its agents seek to destroy foundries elsewhere, so there’s at least an excuse for why these aren’t elsewhere.

An airship tileset has been released, based on the description from ''Ultimate Combat''. The only official use of it has been some organized play scenarios set on the elemental plane of air, which imply the ships used are a different kind of vessel that only works on that plane.

Any item is capable of being made into an Animated Object if the creator is sufficiently powerful, and any animated object can have flight selected as an option. The potential to use this for an airship has not gone unnoticed by fans. Come second edition, a ship is outright the example given for a colossal animated object.