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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7078679" data-attributes="member: 20564">Assuming these aren't enlisted naval officers - that's a different story.&nbsp; For other high risk historical crews like privateers or pirates it was common for crew to get shares of the take.&nbsp; For a chance at enough to retire there are plenty down on their luck willing to risk a one chance in three of death.Looking at some real pirate code breakout from wikipedia (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_code" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_code</a>), I see:Capt' Robert:&nbsp; The Captain and Quartermaster to receive two shares of a prize: the master, boatswain, and gunner, one share and a half, and other officers one and quarter.&nbsp; (And the crew gets 1 share)Cap't Phillips: The Captain is to have two full Shares; the Quartermaster is to have one Share and one Half; The Doctor, Mate, Gunner and Boatswain, one Share and one Quarter.Henry Morgan &amp; others:&nbsp; Shares of booty are provided as follows: &quot;the Captain, or chief Commander, is allotted five or six portions to what the ordinary seamen have ; the Master's Mate only two ; and Officers proportionate to their employment. After whom they draw equal parts from the highest even to the lowest mariner, the boys not being omitted. For even these draw half a share,Looking at the most generous of these and assuming the PCs fill the rolls of the officers and each get a captain's share, the PCs get around 6 shares each and EACH CREWMAN should get one share.&nbsp; So with 5 PCs and 60 crewmen that's 90 shares of which only 30 stay in the hands of the players.&nbsp; So they would be paying out 2/3 of their treasure for such dangerous work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7078679, member: 20564"] Assuming these aren't enlisted naval officers - that's a different story. For other high risk historical crews like privateers or pirates it was common for crew to get shares of the take. For a chance at enough to retire there are plenty down on their luck willing to risk a one chance in three of death. Looking at some real pirate code breakout from wikipedia ([url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_code[/url]), I see: Capt' Robert: The Captain and Quartermaster to receive two shares of a prize: the master, boatswain, and gunner, one share and a half, and other officers one and quarter. (And the crew gets 1 share) Cap't Phillips: The Captain is to have two full Shares; the Quartermaster is to have one Share and one Half; The Doctor, Mate, Gunner and Boatswain, one Share and one Quarter. Henry Morgan & others: Shares of booty are provided as follows: "the Captain, or chief Commander, is allotted five or six portions to what the ordinary seamen have ; the Master's Mate only two ; and Officers proportionate to their employment. After whom they draw equal parts from the highest even to the lowest mariner, the boys not being omitted. For even these draw half a share, Looking at the most generous of these and assuming the PCs fill the rolls of the officers and each get a captain's share, the PCs get around 6 shares each and EACH CREWMAN should get one share. So with 5 PCs and 60 crewmen that's 90 shares of which only 30 stay in the hands of the players. So they would be paying out 2/3 of their treasure for such dangerous work. [/QUOTE]

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