Is now available at the Paizo store!

You can check out some sample pirates here!

Woohoo! I've been looking forward to seeing what David and John did alot.

I can't get to the preview at work, but I do have a couple of quick questions:

What sources were used in building these stats? Just the core rules or the APG and UC, UM, etc as well?

All kinds of races or predominatly human?

I'm looking at this for my Skull & Shackles camapign. Interestingly enough in book 3 there are loads of 'notorious pirates' detailed but not with stat blocks. This would be a nice accessory for my bloodthirsty group who is as likely to talk to another ship as attack them. Thanks in advance!

I can't get to the preview at work, but I do have a couple of quick questions:

What sources were used in building these stats? Just the core rules or the APG and UC, UM, etc as well?

All kinds of races or predominatly human?

I'm looking at this for my Skull & Shackles camapign. Interestingly enough in book 3 there are loads of 'notorious pirates' detailed but not with stat blocks. This would be a nice accessory for my bloodthirsty group who is as likely to talk to another ship as attack them. Thanks in advance!

For some reason, I can't get the preview to work at my work either, but as one of the designers on this project, I can tell you there is a lot of variety, from humans, to demi-humans, to monsters. On the 13 I designed, I did pull from the core book, APG, UM, UC (I even got a samurai in there!) and bestiaries 1 and 2 (I don't think I had the 3rd one yet as this was written a few months ago). Also, while the backstories of the NPCs are "pirate themed", you can drop a lot of these statted creatures into just about any campaign. For example, I've already used the pirate, Green Riskarr, a lizardfolk fighter, as a generic shocktroop in my Kingmaker campaign.

I can tell you there is a lot of variety, from humans, to demi-humans, to monsters. On the 13 I designed, I did pull from the core book, APG, UM, UC (I even got a samurai in there!) and bestiaries 1 and 2 (I don't think I had the 3rd one yet as this was written a few months ago).

Perfect, thank you! Made a sale.

The samples alone were enough to make me want ths one.

The samples alone were enough to make me want ths one.

And with that, my evil trap springs shut...

John Benbo wrote:

I can tell you there is a lot of variety, from humans, to demi-humans, to monsters. On the 13 I designed, I did pull from the core book, APG, UM, UC (I even got a samurai in there!) and bestiaries 1 and 2 (I don't think I had the 3rd one yet as this was written a few months ago).

Perfect, thank you! Made a sale.

Please let me know what you think about the mix of villains. Were there too many odd/unique/different pirates? Not enough? I'm wondering what the normal/abnormal mix of NPCs I should have in a product. Any opinins are gratefully received.

Just grabbed this over on RPGNow, will be putting up a review as soon as I am done devouring it Creighton

Reviewed here and at RPGNow

Wow! Thanks for the awesomely fast review - three hours has got to be a record! I'm sorry you found errors - I hate typos and such like. I will take another look at this file over the weekend and get a new version up ASAP.

Irrespective of the errors, I'm glad you enjoyed the supplement!

Trust me, I know how annoying errors can be, they drive me nuts when I'm proofing my own PDF's, lol. Am glad to hear you're going to give it another pass though, will be happy to up my rating after you update.

And how can one not enjoy this work? There are some true moments of design brilliance in here.

I've just uploaded an updated version of Villainous Pirates that I hope solves most/all of the problems you encountered with the file. Once again, thanks for the review - I appreciate any and all feedback (but particularly that which lets me make my stuff better!)

Review changed to reflect updates. Much appreciation for the update, as the design here was so worth the 5 stars. Well done guys!

Thanks very much. I appreciate you taking another look so quickly!

And reviewed here, on DTRPG and sent to GMS magazine. Cheers!

Awesome, 2 5 star reviews! Thanks, guys! Maybe we can convince Creighton to do a either a follow-up or something else "Villainous." There's some races out of Bestiary 3 that I'd to utilize.

Thanks, Thilo. I'm delighted you liked it so much!

Awesome, 2 5 star reviews! Thanks, guys! Maybe we can convince Creighton to do a either a follow-up or something else "Villainous." There's some races out of Bestiary 3 that I'd to utilize.

How about Villainous Pugwampis?

Huzzah!

Awesome review, Rollme Some! Thanks very much!

Thanks very much for the review, DM Jeff. It's jolly decent of you.

Hooray. Thanks for the jolly in-depth review, Feros. I much appreciate your thoughts and if/when I do a version 2 I'll be sure to take another look at the text.

Thanks!