Skull and Shackles++ (Inactive)

Game Master acecipher

Hey!

This is the campaign for my Skull and Shackles game; I'd consider a full crew of 8, since I love large games and I love adding in extra subplots and everything based on character backstory, and also my own desires as a GM. So... yeah, hopefully this will be a lot of fun.

New recruitment is [u]CLOSED[/u] so please stop applying.

We won't start up until at least the 28th of May, and it won't kick into full swing until after July.

--Ace Cipher

Kestryls rules for poker:

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Basic 5 Card Draw Poker, with some adaptations for PbP

Phase I- Ante . Ante a copper . Deal yourself 5 cards with the formula 'dice' 1d4;1d13 '/dice' . Reroll any duplicates in your own hand . If you choose to cheat (with sleight of hand, magic, etc), roll yourself an extra card. . If you cheat make a DC 15 check for whatever method you used. If you fail miserably, please write that into your in-character narrative. . Put your cards in a spoiler

Cards are read by this formula: 1d4= Suit. 1=Spades, 2=Hearts, 3=Diamonds, 4=Clubs 1d13= Number. 1=Ace, 2=2,... 11=J, 12=Q, 13=K

Phase II- Bet . Betting will go for 24 hours from first bet placed. . Betting is in any order (to speed things up) . Each character may bet up to 3 times . Bets are 'check,' 'raise,' 'fold,' and 'see' . Anyone not betting in 24 hours is considered folded

Phase III- Draw 1, 2, or 3 new cards . Announce Discards and Keepers in Spoiler . Roll 1, 2 or 3 new cards. . Reroll any duplicates in your own hand.

Phase IV- Winner Resolution . No second round of betting (to speed things up) . Show cards . If more than one player has the same card, clearly there was cheating. Resolve in character. . If you suspect someone of peeking at your cards, resolve in character. . If you suspect someone of cheating in the first round, resolve in character.

Feel free to make up new rules appropriate to your character-- familiars spying, great perception checks, great bluff checks, etc. Some may need to be announced in ooc's. Try to make it more about role-playing your character than winning at poker. Have fun!

Shipboard actions:

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Work Dilligently: +4 on one check for a daily task
Influence: Talk to a PC
Sneak: Explore one room of the ship.
Shop: -2 to work checks, and visit the quartermaster's store
Shirk: -2 to work checks, and take 10 on a perception check but risk detection.

Nighttime Shipboard actions:

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-Sleep: Go to bed early, auto-recover from fatigue
-Gamble: Gamble on games of chance or other pirate entertainment
-Entertain: Make a perform check to entertain the crew
-Influence*: Try to influence an NPC with a diplomacy check.
-Sneak*: Take Time exploring one area of the ship.
-Steal*: Attempt to break in and steal something

Rooms aboard the Wormwood:

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Upper Deck
-Fore Deck
-Poop Deck

Main Deck
-Main Deck
-Officer's Quarters
>Armory
>Peppery Longfarthing's lab
-Captain's Cabin
>Cabin Girl's Quarters
>Captain's Storage

Middle Deck
-Main Hold
-Cooks and Quartermaster's Quarters
-Galley
-Quartermaster's store

Lower Deck
-Lower Hold and crew berths

Bilges
-Bilges

A list of crew:

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Captain Barnabas Harrigan (male human)
First Mate Mr. Plugg (Male human)
Boatswain/Master at Arms Master Scourge (male human)
Cook Ambrose "Fishguts" Kroop (male human)
Quartermaster Cut-Throat Grok (female half-orc)
Sailing Master Peppery Longfarthing (female human)
Master Gunner Riaris Krine (female human)
Surgeon/Carpenter Habbly Quarne, the “Stitchman” (male human)
Gunner's Mate Klipper (male human)
Boatswain's mate Patch Patchsalt (female Gnome)
Cabin Girl "Caulky" Tarroon (female human)
Owlbear Hartshorn (male owlbear)
Sandra Quinn (One of the four new recruits with you, the hot one)
Rosie Cusswell (One of the four new recruits with you, the halfling female)
Crimson "Cog" Cogward (One of the four new recruits with you, the angry human male)
Conchobhar Turlach Shortstone (One of the four new recruits with you, the male gnome with the purple hat)
Barefoot Samms Toppin (female human)
Giffer Tibbs (Female Gnome)
Jack Scrimshaw (male human)
“Ratline” Rattsberger (male halfling)
Tilly Brackett (female human)
“Badger” Medlar (female half-elf)-Old woman
Shivikah (female human)-tall Mwangi
Aretta Bansion (female human)
Fipps Chumlett (male human)-fat, shaved head
Jaundiced Jape (male half-orc)
Maheem (male human)-Rhadoumi, scowls
Slippery Syl Lonegan (female human)
Tam “Narwhal” Tate (male dwarf )-large, ugly nose
Jakes Magpie (male human)-In the brig