Airship (video game)
In video role-playing games, airships refer not to helium-filled zeppelins or dirigibles, but usually literal floating ships, which allow the player character party to pass about the world map relatively unimpeded by random monsters.
While airships are merely a convenient plot device in most RPGs, they represent a major part of the world of Skies of Arcadia, which postulates a world of rocky islands floating in midair, without watery oceans. In Skies of Arcadia, airships, once blimps and zeppelins but now airborne vessels of a more traditional appearance, often heavily armed, form the primary - in fact, only - means of transportation about the world, and battle sequences can occur against monsters while flying them (leading to complaints about a perceived high random encounter rate, even though SoA's encounter rate is not particularly greater than average for the genre), as well as against enemy airships.
Skies of Arcadia
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See also: Airship