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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Votan" data-source="post: 5532639" data-attributes="member: 18680">Then let me say "Sailor in the age of Sail" (say the British Navy between 1700 and 1800) and the ship-board pirates that they fought.  It's true that a ship would have a variety of different specialists on board (including marines and gunners which start looking more like good choices for fighter).  But the bulk of the crew is about making the ship work.  The officers need to be able to navigate; a good period example of the skill set of a captain is William Bligh:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bligh" target="_blank">William Bligh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a>Consider this passage from the wikipedia article:"Bligh had confidence in his navigational skills, which he had perfected under the instruction of Captain Cook. His first responsibility was to survive and get word of the mutiny as soon as possible to British vessels that could pursue the mutineers. Thus, he undertook the seemingly impossible 3,618 nautical mile (6,701 km) voyage to Timor. In this remarkable act of seamanship, Bligh succeeded in reaching Timor after a 47-day voyage, the only casualty being the crewman killed on Tofua. Several of the men who survived this ordeal with him soon died of sickness, possibly malaria, in the pestilential Dutch East Indies port of Batavia, as they waited for transport to Britain"I think, whether Blackbeard was an exception or not, that is the type of skillset that the naval officers of the time would be at risk of having.  Not being able to compete with these skills would be a pretty unfortunate trait in a pirate who was going to have to evade naval vessels.  But that doesn't mean he can't be modeled as a Fighter/Rogue or a Barbarian/Rogue (or, even better, with the Able Learner feat he could have his first level in Rogue, the rest in Barbarian and just have been smart).</blockquote>

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