You can tell it's a fantasy world because it has airships

Buoyant rocks.

floating rocks

Winged dragon-whales.

A magnet pointing upward being attracted by a magnet above it pointing downward.

Final Fantasy IX

Eberron

magic powered by magic channeling so if they die the air ship goes down

alternatively city on top of magic sky whale

Huxley

Spelljammer, Skies of Arcadia Legends.

arguably even more fantastical

a magical element that is utlra rare so people fight wars over it as well

floating rocks are pretty cool, and justify flying islands as well as classic blimp-style airship design (the only difference being that the ship's hanging under a boulder instead of a balloon).

other than that, magic that lets you defy gravity can allow for some creative, varied, and pretty designs, although it's a bit of a cop-out.

My sky pirates

Final Fantasy(all)

FTFY

>not knowing FFIX

Just google it and airships user. The fucking concept art is pornographically good. Airships are plot points, too. The game opens with one flying over a city.

so less that 1% of them huh

Forgotten Realms

>The Edge
Ow

Could one theoretically build a railway going down the branch around the trunk and then back up another branch to another continent?

Post images. I'd love some schematic-looking stuff

Mystara
Space 1889
Every Final Fantasy except 9, I think
World of Warcraft (a big one, considering it's how a massive percentage of people interact with fantasy)
Guild Wars 2

To be clear, I goddamn hate airships, but to say they're rare in fantasy is just being ignorant.

>Except 9
Nigga what?

>not knowing IX had many other games come before it, basically all of them with airships

Like seriously, IIRC only Legend, Legend 2 and Mystic Quest -didn't- have airships.

Antigravity crystals

You'd all love the Sonora Aero Club. A real group of people in the 1800's that made working crafts like that in America.

>not crystalized lightning

>being a Godless Darwinist
>in the year of Our Lord 1914 + 103

skies of arcadia

Airships are cool yo

Not always.

Propellers made out of dragon hide.

>year of our lord MMXVII
>not being both

Eurofags get out

Every fantasy universe should have airships. Airships are fucking rad. Plus the societal and military ramifications of having airships are a blast to explore.

Yes. All of that.

Airships are great, but I sometimes worry they might be slightly overdone.

Besides, when do things like flying carpets or winged mounts get their time to shine?

>Flying carpet master race

That's what happens when you make its skin out of highly flammable materials, paint it with highly flammable paint, and then fill it with highly flammable gas.

My woodtroll.

Inficking love me some airships. The more esoteric and unlikely their source of flight the better.

Or when players come near it.

Can you even imagine a group of PCs approaching their first airship in a campaign without at least trying to take it over or destroy it?

>hating euros
>In Unix Epoch Time 1507826000 + 400

really?

>stardate 95382.06
>not using the superior gold based economy
Pathetic

>PCs hiring a airship pilot to smuggle a automaton carrying vital data to a rebellion through enemy territory

yes

Now I want to see if I can reenact starwars without my players realizing.

The old Sojan the Shieldbearer stroies by Moorcock?

Hey Jim, how about you finish peace talks instead of posting on Veeky Forums

Floatwood. It's trees reverse gravity. So I guess magic.

[/spoiler]i don't hate them, I just accept the fact that a society built on Darwinism and Clankerism(i.e. Burgerland) is superior.

And Japan.

I guess.

I still don't understand how people keep fucking up the spoilers.

[/spoiler]im a dirty mobile poster and apparently sent it with my fat fingers before finishing the spoilers

Either I'm a huge idiot or the spoilers I've been using for 4 years hate me. Man. Cause I finished typing both of those all the way out.

Can your Airship fly in Space?

thought not

Airships were a major plot point in several of the games, user. IX is far from unique in that respect.

Ha I get it

Lovely picture of a cloudy sky in China, but how is this relevant?

They don't know the secret ways of ctrl+s

How do i use airships effectively? would they be used in warfare, with ship to ship combat in stormy skies, troopers using the life ropes to swing onto the enemy ship? Or merely a luxury for the rich and famous to feast and ball above the peasantry?

>would they be used in warfare
You wouldn't invent something that is large enough to carry troops and has the potential to bomb cities from the sky and not use it as a military weapon.

all of the above, but also dragon attacks

Finally an excuse for my paraknights

This would of course depend on the setting - if they are extremely expensive and vulnerable, in a world where flying mounts or abilities are not horribly rare, they would make a terrible investment in war.

Otherwise, if they are mobile, fortified, flying weapon platforms, that can carry hundreds of troops over the walls of any city, they would definitely be used to do so.

get out of here the ragnarok called

>make elven airships out of plants and seige the primary city in my setting
>players are terrified, help people get into cover, try to save lives
>this goes on for a while, players feel like they can't do anything
>finally somebody takes a shot at the damn things with a flaming arrow
>it hits one of the gasbags
>gasbag goes up in flames and the rest of the ship crashes to the ground in a flaming heap
>players are reinvigorated and rise to action, taking down all the airships in a few minutes, saving the city
>gnomish airships show up later in the campaign
>same guy takes a shot at the gasbags before I finish the description
>gnome on a megaphone "They're armored you idiot! Give us a little credit, we're not elves!"

Russian fairytales have at least one.
One book by Nick Perumov has flying ships taking people to Heaven. But they are actually advanced technology, and Heaven is a space megapolis where the remains of non-magic humanity prepare the young to the war against satanic evil wizard edgy teenagers who took over planet Earth.

I mean, the Hindenburg was pretty cool up until the point where everyone died.

That was pretty cool too.

>Textile gets damaged easily, and if made of rare materials (like any good magic carpet) hard to reweave
>Passanger not protected from wind, cold or rain so weather limits flying heavily
>Fucking small
>Market is oversaturated with shitty ersatz-mats with fast-made enchantments that wear off randomly, often in mid-flight
They are somewhat enat in urban enivroment i give that but otherways they are low tier

Winged mounts are the fighter plane to the airship's cruiser.

>It's funny because peace talks will never be released

>Hating Euros
>In 1439 AH.
>Aloha Snackbar.

I'm pretty excited for Xenoblade Chronicles 2 myself

Leylines of buyoant air which creates a network of skyrivers, sky lakes and seas, and driftwood cities in the sky. Sailing works like literal sailing but if you fall off you fall to your death.

looking at that design that piece of shit shouldnt be able to fly either

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>Not loving Spelljammer.
Why nerd?

"Man this whole thing feels a lot like... lemme think... Final Fantasy Two! Yeah, gettin' a real Final Fantasy Two vibe." "This side bit with the princess is basically 12". "Yeah I can see that, is this whole campaign a Final Fantasy pastiche?"

>tfw Real Life used to be a fantasy world until boring people forced a genera shift to make it more "mature"

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Well the invention of better engines and airframes made that shift inevitable, even if the shift happened ten years too early and was horribly marketed as 'Inevitable SO DO IT RIGHT NOW' instead of a smooth transition that felt like progress.

That's what quadratic scientific progress without quadratic societific progress gets you.

Pretty much sky pirates.
Two ships engage, fire upon each other, people trying to board. Those that fall can't be saved.
Flintlocks and swords. Dude gets knocked off the boarding plank by a guy with a blunderbuss.

a) most of this can be solved with stronger textiles, be it modern polymeres or giant-spider silk.
b) wear a jacket, and fly low.
c) fair, but flying rugs are nice.
d) you do need to look around a bit, the good stuff will reveal itself eventually.

Although I have heard of flying howdahs, looks like a growth industry. Pic related

let the tears flow

youtube.com/watch?v=bsOwYw9TkJM

Does that mean we lived in a fantasy world in the 1930s?

For some people

Aaand Granblue Fantasy. It's important... in Japan.

>except 9
I know that other guy just proved you wrong, but I also would like to call you an idiot.

Idiot.

>> My Homebrew World......

Tats all I am willing to let myself read of youre post.

>not unbound fire elementals