Sell me a book on sea adventures!

[maddman75]

My group indicated they may bite on a hook that takes them searching for a lost treasure on a deserted isle. So I was hoping to find some kind of book on these kinds of adventures.

My world is pretty close to standard. I'm not looking for in-depth tactical ship-to-ship combat either. My ideal rules would be something that handled the basics of combat, and spent a lot of time on different aspects of sea-going life, adventure hooks, ideas, stuff like that. IOW I take my RPG books creamy.

So can anyone recommend a book? I'm open to PDFs on RPGNow, though a quick search didn't reveal anything. And as I'm a 3.0 heretic I don't care about edition - in fact I'd slightly prefer a 3.0 book to a 3.5 one. That way I don't have to convert feat, skill, and spell names.

 

[Voadam]

Broadsides! and Twin Crowns Campaign Setting by Living Imagination
Seafarer's something by FFG
Seas of Blood by Mongoose
Into the Blue by Bastion Press
En Route II by Atlas games
Monsters of the Endless Blue by Goodman Games
Black Sails by Avalanche Press

I only have the bastion and Living imagination ones.
LI knows their nautical stuff and their ship rules are the most realistic you will find in d20, taking into account winds, ship momentum, tacking, etc. They might be too in-depth for you but they are good and have some good stuff for sailing. The CS has a bunch of sailing rules in it and a swashbuckling world theme, but the broadsides one is nautical specific.

Into the Blue is an ocean ecology resource book and has hazards and monsters for coastal waters, open seas, and deep sea-bottom environments. Neat things like undead from sailors who die ashore, or those castaways who die of dehydration on lifeboats.

En route II is a collection of short adventures with a nautical theme. Atlas generally does a good job on this type of product but I don't have this one.

There is also old 2e products Ships and the Sea is one and there was some huge FR one that I can't remember the title to. Also the sahuagin sourcebook from 2e. These are available as pdfs on www.rpgnow.com

 

[spectre72]

I have Seafarers Handbook and that has been very usefull to me.

Also, Maiden Voyage by Atlas games is a decent ocean going adventure.

And I am currently running the Saltmarsh series from 1st edition, converted to 3E.

Scott