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5e Middle Earth is great. My brother bought books and since then, it's my go to for more grounded, low fantasy games. It does GoT or...

We quite enjoyed playing Adventures on Middle Earth which was basically a house ruled 2014 D&D campaign that stripped out spells, magic...

Some players want to play it out. They don't want to talk it out, it diminishes the experience. Some are ok with narrating everything...

Pirates of Caribbean are, by today's standard, old movie franchise. First one is 22 years old, last one is 8 years old. Black Sails are...

For many people, playing pirates without ships and maritime shenanigans isn't playing pirates. I will be first one to tell people if...

Naval combat doesn't need to be center focus and main theme, but players in pirate campaign usually expect at least some action on the...

For me, this is rather the point. If all you're doing is boarding actions and no actual ship combat, why bother with ships at all? If...

Novel is quite different then movie cause there is no cat&mouse game in novel it more privateers and anti privateers action in...

Acheron (french ship in M&C) is privateer. It's also a movie about naval warfare between frigate and heavy frigate (Acheron is “ship of...

Yup, like 7th sea, which is already set during that time and it's built around swashbuckling adventures we usually connect pirate...

I like multiclassing, very few of my 5e characters are single class. 5e classes are front loaded as hell. Most classes gain their best...

Also, bigger ships are bigger targets. Band of happy pirates in cutter or small sloop, attacking smaller coastal traders, smuggling...

Some of us do. Quite regularly actually. That's one of the better things from 5e. Which ability mod is used depends on the aproach...

I just wrapped a 4 month long pirate arc in my home campaign, and here's how I handled it: 1. The PCs were crew but it was obvious...

Just to go back to the point I was (badly) trying to make. By keeping your ships and whatnot smaller, it makes running the game a...