Black Sails of Freeport

[Calim]

Anyone played this yet?

I have seen one review of it and it stated not to waste your time, I was hoping that I could get a bit of wider response.

I will be starting the freeport series and was going to work all the way through but if the consensus agrees with this other guy, .I also am ready to go a different way if

Thanks

 

[thatdarncat]

well... you could come to the chat room wednesday night, we'll have the Black Sail's authors coming in.

 

[Ghostwind]

You'll find two different reviews here, although one is written by a reviewer that some folks on these boards seem to have no use for, so take it as it is...

 

[Gumby]

I've got it and will probably DM it sometime this year. It looks great to me, but it doesn't really seem to have the same feel that the original three modules had. That to me is a plus, as Lovecraftian mysteries with lots of socializing don't really sell to my group.

BSOF, on the other hand, is pretty much balls-to-the-wall action-adventure, with lots of pirate action, naval battles, rope swinging, zombie hordes, talking gorillas, fiendish mutants, giant flying metal heads, and other B-Movie/Errol Flynn stuff. The serpent men only have a little cameo in the end, and even that's completely optional.

 

[RichGreen]

I have it and am about halfway through reading it. Looks like it'll be a lot of fun to play, although there is a lot of B-movie zaniness and not much Lovecraft influenced horror.

Cheers


Richard

 

[jessemock]

Anyone played this yet?

I have seen one review of it and it stated not to waste your time, I was hoping that I could get a bit of wider response.

I will be starting the freeport series and was going to work all the way through but if the consensus agrees with this other guy, .I also am ready to go a different way if

Thanks

I'll post a review of it here in the next day or two.

Here's the gist in one line: a decent module, very well formatted, that uses a cliched plotline as a framework for a series of fairly neat encounters, which it ekes out to the point of dilution with pop-culture allusions, ironic humour, puns, and inside jokes.