Hello Paizo Community
My gaming group started playing Skull and Shackles. We are on the second book,Minor spoilers, we have our own ship now and have started to be real pirates. Here in lies the problem we started to run across. I am the Captain and I am Chaotic Good. Only one more member of my party is CG too. The rest are a form of neutral. I wanted to set up rules of us being pirates. So we all agreed no taking of slaves to be sold, since spoiler we were pretty much slaves in the start of the campaign. Second was no raiding coastal towns. Which I felt was wrong as a CG player. But was not popular among my crew. I said we can raid any ships on the sea cuz they know the risks when they set sail. But do the people along the coast also know the risks of living there? I was saying but there are women and children in coastal towns. Where as the other members said but we are pirates. That is the first question would a CG person raid coastal towns even though the risk to civilian women and child be high?
Then our Gm threw us a curve ball. We raided a ship and it was full of slavers and down right scum. But we didn't know that till they surrendered. Most of the crew wanted to kill them but I wanted to turn them in to the law or back into the towns they raided. Which my party said they would hang us too for being pirates. I couldn't really just turn my back and let them be killed by my crew cuz they laid down their arms and gave up. We ended up leaving them on an island that was in the middle of nowhere with very lil food or water. As a CG captain could I have ordered them executed? That is my second question?
This session had lots of yelling and fighting back and forth. Which is great role playing but it started to get where the players where going to have to fight each other. Should I just change my Alignment to ensure we can embrace the full range of pirate fun?
This is one of the reason why I prefer Pathfinder over any other role playing game. The level of thought that I am putting into this game is way more than I have ever with any other game. Well written stories that push us to what it means to be Good or Evil. Please put your opinions down because I am writing this three weeks after we played mentioned game and everyday this crosses my mind.
Thank you Paizo for ruining my life
Love always
Captain William Wavewalker