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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Cardinal" data-source="post: 1131353" data-attributes="member: 634">So, with all this "talk like a pirate day" stuff goingon, what are YOUR takes on a pirate setting? Realisticand historical? Fantasy pirates without cannons andflintlocks? Space pirate? Or what?Here's my take (for a mini-campaign)Rains of ManaIt's 1702. 20 years ago a great comet appeared (Halleywill not publish his theory on this one until 1705) inthe skies – and the world changed: Maybe some ritualworked better than planned (i.e. at all), maybe thecomet brought *something* with it, maybe someone*failed* to perform an important ritual… Whatever itwas, it caused the level of mana, of magical energies,on Earth to rise exponentially – with a devastatingside-effect: the enormous amounts of additional energyflowing around the planet caused an enormous rise inglobal temperatures, a kind of magical hothouseeffect that eventually melted the icecaps with a few years.And that was not all.While storms and floods drowned millions of people,things – and people – *changed*: vulcanic andearthquake activities rose to unknown proportions,humans woke up one morning to learn that they hadturned into strange fairie creatures (dwarfs, elfs,centaurs, trolls, ghouls, etc.), or that their pettycurses *worked*, in more exotic or remote areas of theworld whole cities, tribes, or nations, even seemed tochange *retroactively*, remembering a past of magicand monsters that never happened (?), and in otherplaces men soon learned that some things and objectsof legend or fame suddenly had *real* powers…Now, 20 years later, the age of piracy is still on therise: with London drowned, Spain is again a great (ifdecadent) power, the death of the Netherlands createdthousands of dutch pirates, faraway China (or what thefloods have left of it) is haunted by ghosts andstrange monsters and has fallen into a permanent stateof civil war, jungles and forests have grown withsupernatural speed all over the globe, but the desertsof the world are even more hot and deadly than before,large sections of the Alps are controlled by fiercelyindependent dwarfs, ghouls stalk the graveyards ofAlgier and Alexandria, inner Asia now has bloodthirstytribes of centaurs, and the red indians of NorthAmerica now share the plains and forests with astrange but hardy breed of humanoids commonly called"orcs"…  System: GURPS, especially Swashbucklers, Magic Items1-3, Fantasy Folk, Undead and Myth – advanced combatsystem, martial fencing rules, knack magic and mageryavailable to PCsPCs: 150-200 pts.most people are still human, but youmay also pick any fantasy race you want</blockquote>

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