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Also, don't forget that National Talk Like A Pirate Day[size=-2]TM[/size] is only a few days away! September 19th! Avast, ye hearties!
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Piratey Adventure Ideas
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Hypersmurf
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Joshua Dyal said:
International.
You Americans can't have all the fun.
And we get most of a day's head start on you, too!
-Hyp.
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Wow, this thing is really going big! 
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GMSkarka said:
It's nice to be a friend of a gaming supply distributor!!!
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Yellow Sign
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Well be book I have is a copy sent to a gaming supply distrubutor. I got to read it over. The books should be in the stores by as early as next week I think. Here is what I have gleaned from it so far.
A very well put together book. The new character classes are very well balanced and have some neat things they can do but do not overshadow the core classes from the PHB. You can play as a Barbarian, Buccaneer, Bokor (not so nice voodoo guy), Fighter, Hougan (other nicer voodoo guy), Ranger, Rogue, Sea Dog, or Shantyman. There are some very cool prestige classes, a few of which focus on the different fencing schools of the time. A cool new feature is the addition of Backgrounds and Fortunes that add some flavor to your characters.
Combat works very much in the same way as we are accustomed to now, with a few minor changes, that I think are nifty. Hit points work normally, but once you reach zero you start taking Con damage (similar to the WP/VP system used in Star Wars). Hit points recover at a much more accelerated rate based on the hit die type (a number based on the hit die, + your Con Modifier x your level). Con points return at a rate of 1 per day. Also when you take Con Damage you make a fortitude save at a DC of 10 + the con damage taken or go unconscious. Characters also start out with a number of “lives” (typically 1d4+2) If your character is killed or is involved in a fatal incident such as being on a ship when the powder keg goes up, you lose one of your “lives” as you have miraculously survived, i.e. Blown clear etc. The GM is the only one who knows exactly how many lives you have, so be careful. There is a new combat option called parrying. You can opt to give up your next attack, or one of your attacks from a full attack action to parry your opponents attack, it is an opposed roll vs. your opponents attack roll, if you succeed you parry the attack, if you miss, you take the hit with the appropriate damage. There are some good, semi-realistic gunpowder rules as well, (read as misfires, especially when wet). Opponents come in three types, monsters, NPC’s and Cannon Fodder. The first two work like normal, but the Cannon fodder rules are cool. Cannon fodder guys work just like NPC’s, and can have class levels, but they do not have hit points, only Con points, so all damage goes directly to their Con. So a Cannon fodder enemy with10 levels of fighter still has the base attack bonus, all the feats etc. of a 10th level fighter, but could be easily dispatched by the PC’s. Very cool stuff.
A very well put together book. The new character classes are very well balanced and have some neat things they can do but do not overshadow the core classes from the PHB. You can play as a Barbarian, Buccaneer, Bokor (not so nice voodoo guy), Fighter, Hougan (other nicer voodoo guy), Ranger, Rogue, Sea Dog, or Shantyman. There are some very cool prestige classes, a few of which focus on the different fencing schools of the time. A cool new feature is the addition of Backgrounds and Fortunes that add some flavor to your characters.
Combat works very much in the same way as we are accustomed to now, with a few minor changes, that I think are nifty. Hit points work normally, but once you reach zero you start taking Con damage (similar to the WP/VP system used in Star Wars). Hit points recover at a much more accelerated rate based on the hit die type (a number based on the hit die, + your Con Modifier x your level). Con points return at a rate of 1 per day. Also when you take Con Damage you make a fortitude save at a DC of 10 + the con damage taken or go unconscious. Characters also start out with a number of “lives” (typically 1d4+2) If your character is killed or is involved in a fatal incident such as being on a ship when the powder keg goes up, you lose one of your “lives” as you have miraculously survived, i.e. Blown clear etc. The GM is the only one who knows exactly how many lives you have, so be careful. There is a new combat option called parrying. You can opt to give up your next attack, or one of your attacks from a full attack action to parry your opponents attack, it is an opposed roll vs. your opponents attack roll, if you succeed you parry the attack, if you miss, you take the hit with the appropriate damage. There are some good, semi-realistic gunpowder rules as well, (read as misfires, especially when wet). Opponents come in three types, monsters, NPC’s and Cannon Fodder. The first two work like normal, but the Cannon fodder rules are cool. Cannon fodder guys work just like NPC’s, and can have class levels, but they do not have hit points, only Con points, so all damage goes directly to their Con. So a Cannon fodder enemy with10 levels of fighter still has the base attack bonus, all the feats etc. of a 10th level fighter, but could be easily dispatched by the PC’s. Very cool stuff.
Norfleet
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If you want to have a piratey adventure, it's not so important what the adventure is about at ALL. What you need to do is to make it so that everyone, the players and the DM, must talk like pirates throughout the entire adventure. If the adventure is piratical at all, that's even better, but the important part is the mood: Talking like a pirate is an important part of the mood.
Hypersmurf
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Norfleet said:
About a year ago, my players stopped off briefly at a tavern in Freeport.
And they talked to a pirate captain for three hours.
My throat was raw by the end of the session.
Fortunately, I don't tend to have to talk much at work, else I'd be very worried about the state of my voice by the end of tomorrow...!
-Hyp.
Michael Tree
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Does Armor Class work the standard D&D way, or is there something akin to Star Wars' class-based Defense bonus?
There comes a point, Michael, when you've changed so much that gamers start thinking "let's lynch 'em at the next con". 
Armor Class works pretty much like you expect it to. However, there is an entirely new set/table of period-correct armor, some of which you can't even purchase, you have to take it as a Fortune.
Ultimately, there are a number of definite mechanical reasons for the high rates of healing and the (re) introduction of parrying - without any magic armor, or magic items that grant defense bonuses, A.C.s tend to stay fairly low. Then again, the same could be said of magical "to hit" bonuses.
The average S&B pirate has an A.C. of 14 ~ +2 from a Buff Coat, +2 from a Dex bonus. That's it - 14 - And that's a pirate with a decent Dex.
Makes all those Feats like Combat Expertise, Dodge, Mobility and Crab's Rush look pretty sweet, eh? Oh... you don't know what Crab's Rush is. Yet.
[Nice sig line - Lord of Light is one of Zelazny's best, but relatively unknown.]
Armor Class works pretty much like you expect it to. However, there is an entirely new set/table of period-correct armor, some of which you can't even purchase, you have to take it as a Fortune.
Ultimately, there are a number of definite mechanical reasons for the high rates of healing and the (re) introduction of parrying - without any magic armor, or magic items that grant defense bonuses, A.C.s tend to stay fairly low. Then again, the same could be said of magical "to hit" bonuses.
The average S&B pirate has an A.C. of 14 ~ +2 from a Buff Coat, +2 from a Dex bonus. That's it - 14 - And that's a pirate with a decent Dex.
Makes all those Feats like Combat Expertise, Dodge, Mobility and Crab's Rush look pretty sweet, eh? Oh... you don't know what Crab's Rush is. Yet.
[Nice sig line - Lord of Light is one of Zelazny's best, but relatively unknown.]
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qstor
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I second the call to read On stranger tides..Its great. GURPS Swashbucklers might have a few things or AEG's Swashbuckling adventures. That's pretty good too.
But as mentioned history is good too. Maybe an adventure on the lost English colony of Croatan(sp?) What took the settlers? Maybe that Spanish necromancer?
Europe has some good pirate areas too like the Bay of Biscay. New Rochelle was a hotbed for Protestant sea raiders during the French war's of Religion. There's always the Spanish Armada too? For a mix there's an RPGA CoC module where the plotline is some Spanish sailors are shipwrecked off the Heberdies and meet some Mythos creatures from the sea.
Mike
But as mentioned history is good too. Maybe an adventure on the lost English colony of Croatan(sp?) What took the settlers? Maybe that Spanish necromancer?
Europe has some good pirate areas too like the Bay of Biscay. New Rochelle was a hotbed for Protestant sea raiders during the French war's of Religion. There's always the Spanish Armada too? For a mix there's an RPGA CoC module where the plotline is some Spanish sailors are shipwrecked off the Heberdies and meet some Mythos creatures from the sea.
Mike
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