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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ydars" data-source="post: 4483266" data-attributes="member: 62992">The points raised about are excellent; extend them as follows; The pirates will not just accept the PCs as leaders because they are not members of the pirate fraternity. They are also not going to attack the PCs because that would also weaken them and allow someone else to take advantage. Since each pirate survives by bonds of mutual fear and respect, they will also be unlikely to trust one another enough to band together. So present them as arguing and unable to agree and then have someone state the "pirate code". So they set the PCs are series of challenges; the Pirate Gauntlet. If they run the Gauntlet, they are hailed as pirate chieftains. If not, the Gauntlet either kills them or the other pirates gain an advantage from the parties weakness or discover their achilles heel. The Gauntlet could be whatever you like; from a sea-battle with a Kraken, to besting the former undead pirate guardian of the island, to surviving a trap filled labyrinth or even finding where Gelig hid his buried treasure and so the key the island's magic! Good-luck me heartie! Ha Harrr!!</blockquote>