D&D 5E There is No Honor/Pirates of the Caribbean.

[Zardnaar]

Background. My players have chosen a pirate themed game.

I'm setting it in the Caribbean and I'm placing Sasserine from the Savage Tide roughly where Havanna is IRL.

I'm mining Pathfinders Skull and Shackles, Dungeon Magazine, Savage Tide and Ghosts of Saltmarsh for maps, locations, ideas etc.

Part one is There is No Honor. More or less running as is.

I plan on recycling Scuttlecove and Saltmarsh and the Isle of Dread, Vanthus and the Crimson fleet. The Savage Tide plot can go out the window.

Just after some ideas of where you would locate major cities and refocus on Sasserine.

Probably have 4 factions substituting for England/France/Spain/Dutch. Atm it's Human, Elf, Dragonborn and one more.

Thinking of making Scuttlecove a major port in the Yucatan as a gateway to the Yuan Ti lands.

Races are pretty much anything goes that's not flying. Major races are phb ones but not much in the way of Drow.

Vanthus will be a captain in the Crimson Fleet. That fleet serves the Yuant Ti. One of the Elven houses also serves the Yuant Ti.

Rough AP so far.

There is No Honor lvl 1-3 (reaching level 3 at the end).
Salvage Operation lvl 4.

 

[Guest 6801328]

Check out the two "Skyhorn Lighthouse" adventures on DMs Guild.

 

[Zardnaar]

Check out the two "Skyhorn Lighthouse" adventures on DMs Guild.

Cheers I'll have a look.

 

[Mistwell]

This sounds like a great campaign!

 

[Zardnaar]

This sounds like a great campaign!

Hopefully. More focus on Sasserine and pirates.

 

[pukunui]

That does sound pretty interesting! I’ve never played in a pirate-themed campaign.

 

[Zardnaar]

That does sound pretty interesting! I’ve never played in a pirate-themed campaign.

Fairly common for me. Since 1995 (Spelljammer, Star Wars, 3E).

 

[RichGreen]

This sounds like terrific fun! I ran a Pirates of the Caribbean game using Skull and Bones d20 and we had a great time. As well as the Skull and Bones book from Green Ronin, I used the various Buccaneers and Bokor PDFs from Adamant Entertainment, and ICE’s Run Out the Guns! which had a cool Caribbean map in it.

The campaign write ups are here in case useful: Pirates of the Caribbean: A Skull & Bones campaign

Let us know how it goes!

 

[Quickleaf]

@RichGreen Yeah, that's an amazing setting. I did a semi-conversion/adaptation of some of it for my Spell & Crossbones game, which may be a useful resource for you to mine for your own game @Zardnaar: 5E - [5e] Spell & Crossbones (recruiting 1-2)

 

[Ancalagon]

A serious challenge is logistics/trading. A pirate ship is a business. You have to feed the crew and keep the ship supplied and repaired. If you board a small merchant vessel with 1000 pieces of 8 and 10 tons of molasses... is that a lot? You can only answer if you have a reasonable grasp of these costs/logistical concerns.