Skull & Shackles Player's Guide out

Wycen · Apr 11, 2012

It is 30 pages of piraty goodness. The campaign traits also serve as the backstory of how you got shanghaied or pressed into service. None of them are voluntary, though I suppose you can work that out with the DM.

It includes pirate weapons, ship to ship combat rules, counters, and a sidebar on battle scars, plus other stuff.

The one thing lacking, which Steel_Wind will be disappointed in: no cannons. While it does include rules for flamethrowers and fire, no black powder rules are presented.

One of the interesting things to me was the mention of cyclops ruins. That's because the Celtic PF game I'm playing in right now has cyclops ruins, since they were apparently part of the world's earlier ages. The DM even mentioned he stole some of the ideas from whatever book they appear in (he's borrowed from tons of stuff).

triqui · Apr 11, 2012

Wycen said:
It is 30 pages of piraty goodness. The campaign traits also serve as the backstory of how you got shanghaied or pressed into service. None of them are voluntary, though I suppose you can work that out with the DM.

I doubt it. Seeing the art, it looks like the PC are clearly prisoners in the begining. You might be a willing pirate, but from another ship I suppose.

It includes pirate weapons, ship to ship combat rules, counters, and a sidebar on battle scars, plus other stuff.

The one thing lacking, which Steel_Wind will be disappointed in: no cannons. While it does include rules for flamethrowers and fire, no black powder rules are presented.

Jacobs has stated in the forums that those will be sidebar options for the DM in the AP itself. They didn't want it to be a player choice, because not every DM want to include gunpowder in their campaign.

One of the interesting things to me was the mention of cyclops ruins. That's because the Celtic PF game I'm playing in right now has cyclops ruins, since they were apparently part of the world's earlier ages. The DM even mentioned he stole some of the ideas from whatever book they appear in (he's borrowed from tons of stuff).

Kingmaker campaign cite cyclops ancient empire too.

It even has a cyclop lich

Whizbang Dustyboots · Apr 11, 2012

This AP sounds fantastic.

dmccoy1693 · Apr 12, 2012

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mach1.9pants · Apr 12, 2012

That pic is ridiculous, so you'd let your captives keep all that very flash and expensive clothes?

As the Tui adverts say: YEAH RIGHT.

Squire James · Apr 12, 2012

mach1.9pants said:
That pic is ridiculous, so you'd let your captives keep all that very flash and expensive clothes?

As the Tui adverts say: YEAH RIGHT.

Maybe that particular pirate has a fetish for dressing up slaves in expensive clothes.

"Arr! Put on these Noble Cleric robes!"

"But I'm a city rat, and I've never worn high heels in my life!"

"Arrrr! Put on these Noble Cleric robes, and swab the deck, unless you'd rather swab the deck in that Goth Buckle outfit! I'll let you do that, if you want."

"Sigh... all right, hand over the robes..."

"Excellent! Now, tell that white-haired wizard guy I want to dress him up in black leather, and make him swab the deck as well!"

Wycen · Apr 12, 2012

Those are two of the Pathfinder Iconics doing the scrubbing so the artist and developers knew what they were doing.

mach1.9pants · Apr 13, 2012

We know they're the iconics but it is still a ridiculous image, they should be in rags and if they're iconic you should still be able to tell who they are.

Lwaxy · Apr 13, 2012

I was laughing so hard at the picture. Most silly thing I've seen in a while. As bad as scantly clad warrior women.

Noir le Lotus · Apr 13, 2012

mach1.9pants said:
We know they're the iconics but it is still a ridiculous image, they should be in rags and if they're iconic you should still be able to tell who they are.

In rags, no. But the half-elf's leather armor and the woman jewels should have been taken away.