Yarr! What be yer' favorite system for runnin' a Pirate game?!

[Psion]

Skull & Bones.

Roll & Keep system is a scurvy dog.

 

[Toric_Arthendain]

d20 Past has the Age of Adventure campaign model, which covers pirates, muskateers and the like. Having only read the book, I have no idea how it plays but the information in d20 Past combined with d20 Modern would probably make a decent pirate game.

 

[Zweihänder]

To be honest: a fully-costumed LARP, with mandatory piratey speech patterns. Also, have a monkey running around.

 

[Henry]

I don't know. 7th Sea is an excellent swashbuckling RPG, but pirates? I don't think so.

No offense meant, but you may well be the only person I've ever seen to divorce the notion of "swashbuckling" from "pirates." To me, the two go hand-in-hand, unless one were running a very grim and gritty pirates game, and even then, it can't help but to creep in to even the hardest hardcore games.

 

[dpmcalister]

No offense meant, but you may well be the only person I've ever seen to divorce the notion of "swashbuckling" from "pirates." To me, the two go hand-in-hand, unless one were running a very grim and gritty pirates game, and even then, it can't help but to creep in to even the hardest hardcore games.

No offence taken

Perhaps I should have expanded on my statement. You're right, swashbuckling and pirates go together like a hand and glove but, in my experience, there isn't much call for pirates in 7th Sea unless you set your games around the Midnight Archipelago. The vast majority of 7th Sea is more The Three Musketeers than Pirates of the Caribbean.

Of course, this is only from my experience

 

[Dracomeander]

Ah, but musketeers and pirates all fall into the same swashbuckler era. Just the motivations are different, and sometimes not even that.

I've had several 7th Sea games with a pirate flavor, however my favorite pirate campaign has to pull out the ancient rules from FGU, Flashing Blades.

 

[Hammerhead]

I'm currently playing in a pirate game using the Wushu rules, which is working out pretty well so far. The fun part about my character is that he gets to control the entire pirate crew with his traits; the alchemist (think FMA) has a trait that subs in for the ship. Then we have the Jack Sparrow ripoff. Good times.