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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 the Cowboy genre has to do with cows.

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 large numbers of combatants to do pirates. If you look at pirate movies there are rarely more than a dozen extras on either side, and the original pirate story -...

Because the BG1 kobolds used them all.

I thought the ship combat mini-game was okay (and possibly adaptable to D&D for a theatre of the mind approach), but the main story was the worst kind of railroad.

If events in RotFM are taken as canon, most of the Ten Towns was trashed by a robo-dragon, but two Goliath villages were left untouched.

Their "off duty" outfits might be easier. I think I might be a little old and fat for a Saja boy!

Famously, the game that everyone house rules, as the official rules are terrible*. *Since it was originally intended as an anti-capitalist parable, it was never meant to be fun.

I have seen at least one reference earlier in this thread.

Of course you can design it, no one is saying otherwise. What you can’t do is make people like it.

Nah, plenty of people enjoy playing D&D without thinking or caring about the rules at all. They just tend not to talk about it on the internet.

If the goblins are in a castle, with lots of arrows, cauldrons of boiling oil, etc, then they might pose a serious threat, but CR does not take tactical situations into account any more than it does player skill. Or the goblins in a field might run away and alert the goblin army. Or maybe the...

This is the key phrase. You cannot “average out” cars and bicycles and expect to get an outcome that is useful to either motorists or cyclists, never mind pedestrians.

Nope, I wasn't there, having given up on D&D years earlier. The current rules seem to be full of creative vaguery to me. Very much in the spirit of 1st edition.

Deadfire is good, apart from the central plot, which is terrible.

...explained Basil Exposition.

Is not the Stranger Things boxed set a Universes Beyond type product?

It's a problem that the game has to handle, because it's D&D's USP. By specialising, you have a far smaller market, and WotC is too big a company with too many overheads to be a niche company.

It's going to depend on the players, but I have had players interested in this in a Traveller campaign. Traveller is just much better at this kind of thing than D&D though.