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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 9033112" data-attributes="member: 58197">Trade goods were the usual plunder for Golden Age pirates, but there were also hauls of treasure worthy of the gaudiest pirate fiction. The Nossa Senhora do Cabo carried gold, gems, and religious regalia worth a million pounds sterling when it was taken. The capture of the Ganj-i-sawai was a dramatic and bloody sea battle and the ship was laden with gold and silver, between 200,000 and 600,000 pounds' worth*.You could have the players chase ships loaded with pickled fish, but why would you want to create and run such a dull adventure? Leave that stuff to NPCs -- the PCs should be the ones going after legendary prizes, and facing the attendant dangers.*Also, if you wanted an adventure centered on cursed pirate gold, the crimes committed by the victorious pirates on the Ganj-i-sawai would certainly justify such a thing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 9033112, member: 58197"] Trade goods were the usual plunder for Golden Age pirates, but there were also hauls of treasure worthy of the gaudiest pirate fiction. The [I]Nossa Senhora do Cabo [/I]carried gold, gems, and religious regalia worth a million pounds sterling when it was taken. The capture of the [I]Ganj-i-sawai[/I] was a dramatic and bloody sea battle and the ship was laden with gold and silver, between 200,000 and 600,000 pounds' worth*. You [I]could[/I] have the players chase ships loaded with pickled fish, but why would you want to create and run such a dull adventure? Leave that stuff to NPCs -- the PCs should be the ones going after legendary prizes, and facing the attendant dangers. [SIZE=3]*Also, if you wanted an adventure centered on cursed pirate gold, the crimes committed by the victorious pirates on the [I]Ganj-i-sawai [/I]would certainly justify such a thing.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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