Help everyone. I am looking for stats for pirates, particularly North African pirates that might be based out of Tunis, Tripoli, or elsewhere on the Barbary Coast.
I have Through the Aegis with its stats for sailors of the North Sea. But if there are more appropriate pirate stats I’d love to use them.
Thank you!
Pralix
August 24, 2020, 7:45am
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Postby JeanMichelle » Mon Apr 05, 2010 4:19 pm for "Fire in the North"
draft:
Lucky Wodin Whoreson, the pirate
Flaws:
1 greedy
1 story: Visions
-3 Outlaw
-1 Weakness gambling
-1 Afflicted tongue
-1 Disfigured
-1 Missing eye
1 fluctuating fortune (from A&A p. 134: alternating: one year virtue rich, the next year poor flaw)
Virtues:
3 Ways of the sea
1 Premonitions [associated with the magic realm]
1 Perfect balance
1 Affinity with single weapon
1 tough
1 puissant single weapons
…
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Salutor
August 26, 2020, 7:47pm
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Probably not "more appropriate", but the Eustace the Monk chapter in Tales of Power has normal human pirates as well as various demon pirates.
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TimOB
August 30, 2020, 11:36pm
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Do you have Between Sand and Sea? I seem to recall being in a similar situation and finding a stat block there.
I do! But I didn’t find any pirate stats. I’d be happy to be wrong!
TimOB
September 1, 2020, 1:48am
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Alas, I appear to be wrong. I may have generated pirates using the Grogs supplement.