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Nomadic

#15
December 27, 2008, 03:13:06 AM
Gnome privateers with steampunkish ships that are held together with a little love and alot of "duct tape".

secluded pirate ports complete with drunken brawls and dead navy captains hanging from ropes.

underwater cities of secluded merfolk (heck in a pirate campaign you could have a merfolkish race as a PC race.

Captain Obvious

#16
December 27, 2008, 08:25:42 AM
Fights in the rigging.

Haunted ships (and i mean actual ghost-ships themselves, not just normal ships crewed by ghosts)

Love the idea of sea ithillids. Maybe they live under the surface, occaisonally tainting/corrupting members of towns to serve as acolytes. Combine this with the sea tarrasque idea and have them trying to awake a slumbering monstrosity in a deep trench.

Need to have the law, and ill-defined "who exactly are the good guys anyways?"

floating mechanical gnome cities are wicked cool. never thought of those before.
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#17
December 27, 2008, 10:26:14 AM
Piracy has to make a little sense.

So there have to be some authority figures opposing them, militaristic navies patrolling the waters, owned by countries that are busy sending valuables across large open areas of water.  It is no coincidence that piracy always follows exploration and exploitation.  So those conditions probably need to be met as well.
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Llum

#18
December 27, 2008, 02:30:29 PM
For anything involving Pirates you have to have rival ninjas right? Sorry, had to bring it up :p

Other naval factions like royal navies, privateers and enemy pirates are good. Since this is fantasy merpirates (merpeople pirates) and vampirates (vampire pirates) are cool.

Personally I would avoid steampunk pirates (It doesn't sound as cool as it should to me :p )

Crazy sea beasties like a Leviathan would be cool, maybe something along the lines of a Moby Dick thing.

Personally my favorite aquatic race are the Sea Giants from Blizzards Warcraft universe. There huge, they break ships and wear the pieces (ships wheel belt buckle) and they're part whale/shark (fin+tail, at least in Warcraft 3).

If you want something unusual maybe a insect-like race or monsters could be prominent, like big water striders or dragonfly larva.

Eels are always pretty cool and underused as well.

Ghostman

#19
December 27, 2008, 04:33:35 PM
Quote from: LlumFor anything involving Pirates you have to have rival ninjas right? Sorry, had to bring it up :p
Unless you go for the ultimate combo: Pirate Ninjas!

One interesting thing to do in a pirate game (or most any maritime game) would be making the world flat so that there literally is a giant waterfall at the edge. This could be used for a very climactic challenge that doesn't involve combat.
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Nomadic

#20
December 27, 2008, 05:05:44 PM
Quote from: Ghostman
Quote from: LlumFor anything involving Pirates you have to have rival ninjas right? Sorry, had to bring it up :p
Unless you go for the ultimate combo: Pirate Ninjas!

One interesting thing to do in a pirate game (or most any maritime game) would be making the world flat so that there literally is a giant waterfall at the edge. This could be used for a very climactic challenge that doesn't involve combat.

Or one that does... Imagine two ships locked together drifting towards the edge. Both crews are fighting and guns are blazing. Each is trying to cripple the other with just enough time to disengage and toss them over the edge (or perhaps get them to submit before they reach the edge and take them as a prize).

Epic Meepo

#21
December 28, 2008, 12:54:18 PM
Quote from: PhoenixIs your emoticon implying the ninjas are the good guys in this campaign?
:ninja:  Pay no attention to the ninja behind the curtain.
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#22
December 29, 2008, 12:22:44 AM
Quote from: Epic Meepo
Quote from: PhoenixIs your emoticon implying the ninjas are the good guys in this campaign?
:ninja:  Pay no attention to the ninja behind the curtain.
What Ninja?

What curtain?

Uh oh... I think I just failed a spot check...
[spoiler=My Campaign Settings]
The Age of Kings: My main CS(Comments and Criticism welcomed)
Shadows of the Last Alliance: My PbP game\'s CS (Not much written here yet)
...As it is in Heaven: My newer CS (currently mostly just brainstorming)
Vorsatz: my newest setting.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Quotes]
\"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, leaving only the memory of smoke and the presumption that once our eyes watered.\" -Samuel Beckett
\"Who am I lady? I\'m your worst nightmare. A pumpkin with a gun!\" -Merv Pumpkinhead
\"This whole Case is like a chocolate jigsaw puzzle: It\'s messy, it sticks to your fingers and you don\'t know whether to fit the peices together or just take a big bite.\" - Jack Leaderboard
"Pig's lips meet my lips,
Pig's Stomach meets my stomach,
A meeting of meats."
- Anonnymous hotdog haiku.[/spoiler]
My Unitarian Jihad Name is Brother Boot Knife of Forgiveness.
Instigator of the Weirdo Invasion! :weirdo:

!turtle Are you a member of the turtle club? You bet your boots I am!

Nomadic

#23
December 29, 2008, 01:43:35 AM
Quote from: Captain Obvious
Quote from: Epic Meepo
Quote from: PhoenixIs your emoticon implying the ninjas are the good guys in this campaign?
:ninja:  Pay no attention to the ninja behind the curtain.
What Ninja?

What curtain?

Uh oh... I think I just failed a spot check...

Wait, was it a ninja wielding a curtain tower shield?
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