Transportation ideas for DA4.

DA has slowly expanded our options for getting around with WAR NUGS! mounts, working lifts, even a brief cinematic sailing excursion. But with some other fantasy games coming up with some interesting ideas of their own (sailing in W3, dragon riding in Skyrim, etc.), what could DA4 do to take things up a notch, but still right for the setting...?

Sailing ships and griffon-riding would probably be high on the list.

What about transportation with a twist?


Mobile Base of Operations?

In the book Last Flight, the heroes created a make-shift floating Aravel to transport people out of danger. I thought, damn... it'd be sweet to have our own large, mobile structure as our heroes' base - one capable of gliding low over land and water, but would still be impeded by dense woods, mountains, city walls, narrow canyons... When you arrived in a new region, there would be areas you could "sail" around in, as well as areas you would have to disembark and travel on foot or mount.

At first I was thinking of something like a sailing ship or floating keep, but there's reason it would have to be. In fact, I think it'd be even more interesting if it wasn't. It could be oval or some other shape. It could be comprised of a number of structures. Upgrade it... customize it... It would have all your crafting stations, merchants, living quarters, siege weaponry, staff, etc. and becomes your main "base camp" wherever you went.

You could have naval battles in this thing, use it as a mobile siege platform to attack other castles/cities. In turn you could get attacked by dragons, varterral, giants, etc.. Maybe even "sail" into the Fade?


Ice Schooner (or maybe something a little more nimble)?

Essentially, a sailing vessel with ice blades. Imagine a region where you could have chase scenes with a number of these down frozen rivers and across icy lakes. "Nudge" enemy boats into environmental hazards, over falls, blast them with ranged attacks or leap across to commandeer them.



And if the climate up north isn't ideal for an icy region, I remember a similar idea being used cross a desert region which had great plains of glass.


Super-Size It?

The War Nug was a refreshing(-ly large) addition in DAI, but how about a region where we traverse it on an enormous (relatively docile) creature of some sort?

Large enough to accommodate all your party members... and refreshments? Enjoy the view from on high, have a chance to chat with party members, fend off attack from an elevated position.



Thoughts?

Other ideas?