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Everything is anachronistic to D&D. But in this case it doesn’t matter. The only technological limitation on piracy is “must have sea...

I think it's a pretty natural upshot of combining resource-based play with GM authority over pacing. Originally, D&D was not designed...

This is correct. Its down to interpretation.

Why not? None of this is in the rules. It's just your interpretation.

The ability doesn't specify "spell attack" though. "Attack roll with a spell" may or may not be the same thing as a "spell attack". The...

I don't see any reason why the DM would bring it up at all. If the players want to build an armada, or engage in mercantile commerce...

But we all know what will happen next: The PCs will hack their way through the "victorious" crew as well, because of the massive power...

Yup. This is a product that's designed to be playable without any other D&D products. But it's not specifically designed to teach people...

The Essentials Kit did that: it let you build simple characters and gave them six levels of stuff to do. What I've didn't do was hold...

Yes. And yet it’s the trope definer for the “Pirate” genre. Which is important, the Pirate genre has as much to do with actual piracy as...

They are most useful if you want to make a goliath PC and want somewhere developed for them to be from.

I wouldn’t call them a big part, my group didn’t visit either village. There is a significant Goliath werebear NPC.

I've tried the squad-as-swarms approach, but it felt too mechanical for me. Didn't suit the fiction. But I don't think you really need...

Because the BG1 kobolds used them all.

You mean Camp Clearwater Massacre? https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/gameaddon/11548/the-camp-clearwater-massacre