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Best pirate RPG?

Started by Trond, June 29, 2016, 12:48:42 PM

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Rincewind1

#45
July 01, 2016, 01:07:21 PM
Quote from: Matt;905848The correct answer is Flashing Blades with the High Seas supplement, both of which are great and inexpensive and still in print at FGU's web site.

Runner-up: Pirates & Plunder, except there are no rules for ships.

Privateers & Gentlemen (also still in print from FGU) could easily be adapted for pirates.

I agree and highly recommend Flashing Blades. Airship Pirates are also a great game if you want that steampunk vibe.

Quote from: Trond;905897So what's the Flashing Blades system like?

A rather simple one - it's one of those percentile systems where you just have increments of 5%, so you roll D20 instead of D100. And combat is fun and excellently geared towards emulating the swashbuckling classics, while remaining simple - my own tip'd be to grab a deck of cards and mark them as combat maneuvers, so both sides declare without knowing what the other'll do.
Furthermore, I consider that  This is Why We Don\'t Like You thread should be closed

Teodrik

#46
July 01, 2016, 04:20:10 PM
Honor+Intruige work excellent as a pirate game. Even covers ships and naval combat and the time era is right.

Matt

#47
July 01, 2016, 07:04:17 PM
Quote from: Christopher Brady;906040It's Matt, he's probably played it so long that he remembers the charts by heart, but assumes everyone else has as well.  Despite never playing it.  Ever.


Have you cheered yourself up by lashing out for no reason? What a moron.

Christopher Brady

#48
July 01, 2016, 07:46:58 PM
Quote from: Matt;906234Have you cheered yourself up by lashing out for no reason? What a moron.

Why would I need to cheer myself up?  What a strange question.

No, I am just noting a pattern of behaviour you exhibit.  You clearly have a fondness for a specific type of game, and always come in, pretty much like Gronan does with some sort of vaguely authoritarian statement as if your way should be the only way.
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Trond

#49
July 01, 2016, 08:10:51 PM
As I said with Rolemaster, if you want to play a game with tons of charts it's reall not such a big problem if you use post-it notes or something similar. Somehow I don't think Flashing Blades has more charts than Rolemaster, but correct me if I'm wrong.

Simlasa

#50
July 01, 2016, 08:28:17 PM Last Edit: July 01, 2016, 08:32:36 PM by Simlasa
Quote from: Christopher Brady;906237No, I am just noting a pattern of behaviour you exhibit.
People in glass houses... This is where I get to point out one of your own patterns, where your head splits open and bats fly out whenever anyone dares mention 'OSR'.

I'm pretty sure we all have observable preferences and dislikes.

Krimson

#51
July 01, 2016, 11:33:50 PM
Quote from: JesterRaiin;906158Why? Neither PFRPG is a stranger to maritime stories, nor its Freeport edition is relatively bad. :p

I think the Pathfinder guide to Freeport came out later than several of the others. I'm sure it's perfectly fine and if I walked into someone's house and Pathfinder was on the table I'd be making a character. For me though, Pathfinder isn't the first system that comes to mind when I think of Freeport.
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Rincewind1

#52
July 02, 2016, 05:58:02 AM
Quote from: Trond;906239As I said with Rolemaster, if you want to play a game with tons of charts it's reall not such a big problem if you use post-it notes or something similar. Somehow I don't think Flashing Blades has more charts than Rolemaster, but correct me if I'm wrong.

it doesn't - it has charts for profession progression and downtime events, and a combat chart, since combat is based on dueling maneuvers. That's pretty much it, plus a few usual charts such as equipment etc.

Rolemaster I think'd best benefit now from a digital edition with hyperlinks. Or even a fully digitalised edition, with those fancy charts just appearing as you hoover over an appropriate term.
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JesterRaiin

#53
July 02, 2016, 09:10:22 AM
Quote from: Krimson;906256For me though, Pathfinder isn't the first system that comes to mind when I think of Freeport.

I have no problem with that. The way it was stated, I thought there's some inherent problem in PFRPG that makes it "wrong" choice for pirate-y sessions.

Call it "oversensitivity" or something. ;)
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Krimson

#54
July 02, 2016, 12:16:51 PM
Quote from: JesterRaiin;906304I have no problem with that. The way it was stated, I thought there's some inherent problem in PFRPG that makes it "wrong" choice for pirate-y sessions.

Call it "oversensitivity" or something. ;)

My system of choice for naval based games has always been AD&D 1e, so I'm sure Pathfinder is fine.
"Anyways, I for one never felt like it had a worse \'yiff factor\' than any other system." -- RPGPundit

Larsdangly

#55
July 04, 2016, 10:14:09 PM
Quote from: Matt;905848The correct answer is Flashing Blades with the High Seas supplement, both of which are great and inexpensive and still in print at FGU's web site.

Runner-up: Pirates & Plunder, except there are no rules for ships.

Privateers & Gentlemen (also still in print from FGU) could easily be adapted for pirates.

Correct. If you like pirate/musketeer sorts of games and don't know Flashing Blades, then you need to stop hating yourself and go buy a copy.

LouGoncey

#56
July 05, 2016, 12:31:48 AM
Finished a pirate campaign about 3 months ago that was D&D 3.5 with Green Ronin's Skull & Bones supplement. It was way over the top and kinda fun...

slayride35

#57
July 06, 2016, 01:31:43 PM
Absolutely nothing wrong with DnD 3.x (or Pathfinder) for pirates.  I had a lot of fun with a 3.5 game where I was playing a Bard/Rogue Captain of a ship in a game set along a desert river. One of our last adventures was raiding a pyramid and defeating a mummy to steal treasure before the campaign abruptly ended.

baran_i_kanu

#58
July 10, 2016, 11:02:28 PM
Pirates from New Dimension Games if pretty great.
Decent system, covers pretty much every piratey thing including cargo, trade, etc.
Homepage: http://www.newdimensiongames.com/pirates1.htm
A review: https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14887.phtml
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Trond

#59
July 20, 2016, 03:04:50 PM
Quote from: baran_i_kanu;907705Pirates from New Dimension Games if pretty great.
Decent system, covers pretty much every piratey thing including cargo, trade, etc.
Homepage: http://www.newdimensiongames.com/pirates1.htm
A review: https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14887.phtml

Sounds good!
So there seems to be several obscure but great pirate games out there.

In general; for a more or less historical game I think I would choose the 1600s myself, but it seems that many others prefer the 1700s?
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