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It ’s a truism of storytelling that any tale – Koran , flick , roleplaying game , or otherwise – can be improved with the addition of pirates ( and , popularly , ninjas ) . The followingtabletop RPGsystems stand as cogent evidence of this " Pirate Principle " – filled with fantasy mise en scene and rule uniquely befit to the recounting of tales about swashbuckling , larceny , and high adventure in the vein ofPirates of the Caribbeanand other corsair - centrical fable .
Ever since the former civilization of humanity started transporting wealthiness and rarified goods across the world ’s seas , there have been pirates and privateers who ’ve prove to steal those goods for themselves through wild means . The most pop paradigm ofpirates in games likeSea of Thieveshails from the 17th century Age of Sail , but there have been many other ages of Piracy in different parts of the world , each with their own iconic rogues and ruffians ; the Nipponese Hokou plagiarist raiders of the fifteenth century , the 19th century Formosan Pirate Queen Zheng Yi Sao and her fleet of 400 ships , etc .
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The tabletop RPGs below invariably portray pirates in a romanticized fashion – focus on their ethos of freedom and egalitarianism , florid sense of fashion , and charismatic brass , while downplaying their historic brutality and willingness to prey on the weak and defenceless . Each of these RPGs is also steeped in fantastic elements , permit histrion mix classic pirate ship figure of speech of soaring , pillage , and hoist theskull and crossbonesflag with magic , Krakens , and other kinds of supernatural phenomena .
The Pirate Fantasy of Rapscallion
Rapscallion , aMagpie GamesRPG build up around the " power By The Apocalypse " system , is presently for sales agreement in the form of an " Ashcan Edition , " a slim volume with canonical rules and setting details to be elaborated upon in future editions . TheRapscallionRPG typeset , however , is already vividly drawn – a universe of vast blue ocean , Royal Navies , and Pirate Kings , make full with thaumaturgy , behemoth , and a strange " alchemy " that shifts the outward appearance of character to match their inner selves . The playbooks ofRapscallioncenter themselves around archetypes such asChronicler , Navigator , orMountebank , while still giving player leeway to custom-make their Pirate PC in colored ways .
Lady Blackbird Provides Sci-Fi Pirate Adventure
Lady Blackbird , a free - to - download RPG by John Harper , crams an impressive amount of story - beats , world - building contingent , and narrative storytelling mechanics into its 16 pages of content . Thesetting of the beginner - friendlyLady Blackbird , the " Wild Blue , " is a collection of planets and asteroids surrounded by a vast area of breathable airwave . Players take on the use of gang - mates from a smuggler Skyship , choosing from among pre - made type such as the shapeshifting goblin Snargle , Captain Cyrus Vance , or the nominal " Lady Blackbird , " a noblewoman and violent storm - Blood sorceress running away from abode to re - combine with the Pirate King Uriah Flint , her star - crossed lover .
Abney Park’s Airship Pirates Offers Steampunk Piracy
This somewhat ecological niche tabletop RPG , available on theDrivethru RPGwebsite , is explicitly simulate after the Seattle - free-base steampunk bandAbney Parkand their " time - traveling dirigible pirates " song narratives . The primary draw ofAbney Park ’s Airship Piratesis its setting , a post - post - apocalyptic alternate historywhere sky - cities and pirate airships fly though the cloud , mobile caravans digress huge stretches of wilderness , and industrial urban center - land are crush by both heavy pollution and the clockwork enforcers of a tyrannical Emperor . Pirate eccentric in this setting wear brass goggles , pilot time - hop dirigibles , and plunder riches from oppressive aristocrat who personify the inequities of the priggish Age .
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Set Course For A Magical Age Of Sail In 7th Sea’s Pirate Odyssey
7th Sea , aswashbuckling , seafaring fantasy play gamepublished by Chaosium , is basically set in a magical version of the Age of Sail , each player character hailing from a novelise interlingual rendition of a 17th century nation or conglomerate ( the Glamour Isles comprise the British Isles , Castille representing Spain , etc ) . It ’s potential to tell exclusively land - bound story in a7th Seagame a laThe Three Musketeers;that tell , the secret plan ’s elaborate rules for ship - sailplaning and affaire d’honneur , along with the heavy phone number of piratical camarilla and antagonistic trading company in the mise en scene , make7th Seaa consistently expert option for tellingPirates of the Carribean - vogue tales of magic and eminent adventure in atabletop RPGmedium .
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Sources : Magpie Games , Drivethru RPG
