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One other thing I forgot in my original reply.
I feel like PF2 has a much heavier hand when it comes to the lore and worldspace, directly referencing it and giving details on the setting in the core rulebook.
Me personally, I never liked the official lore, I prefer to do my own worldbuilding and I feel like PF1 facilitates that better.

Just to quickly run by one aspect of the campaign I was working on, here's the general idea I have for firearm rules.

Firearms count as martial weapons, but costs remain as listed.
Advanced firearms are not in circulation, or are incredibly rare and cannot be bought.
Gunsmithing need not be taken to utilize firearms, but is still required to make any repairs on the gun.

I also created a prototype stat block for the colonial era rifle I wanted to implement

LONG RIFLE (EARLY FIREARM)

COST: 3000GP WEIGHT: 7LBS

DAMAGE: 1D10 (SMALL), 1D12 (MEDIUM)

RANGE: 100FT

MISFIRE: 1-2 CAPACITY: 1

RELOAD IS ALWAYS A FULL ROUND ACTION AND CANNOT BE AFFECTED BY RAPID RELOAD OR MUSKET MASTER, IS REDUCED TO STANDARD ACTION BY PAPER CARTRIDGES. CANNOT FIRE OTHER FORMS OF ALCHEMICAL CARTRIDGES

Personally I prefer PF1 bwcause it is crunchier and I love to munch on the crunch. PF2 is also good, especially with the expansion of certain aspects, and feels more easy to use but I simply do not vibe as well with the streamlined aspects, similar to how I do not vibe with D&D 5e.

I feel like both have their merits though.

Yes, so running privateers is a little easier than pirate-pirates in my opinion. Your characters have a little more structure to play off, being that you are more mercenaries than outlaws.

Exactly! So, do you know of any suggestions following that concept?

I'd take a long hard look at the Skulls and Shackles Adventure Path...

I like some of the stuff therr, but it also feels like a different brand of pirate than what I'm going for. I'm kind of more doing an Age of Sail but with fantasy elements, where this seems much more directly pirate focused. Still very good though, thanks!

Originality is overrated

The most important thing may be to decide what kind of things your pirates want to do. Will they be raiding ships? Will they loot and pillage? Will they have a greater purpose or just be randomly going from port to port? What size ships will they have and how will they get the crew to man those ships?

What pirate themes do you want to make sure you do? Treasure hunt? Defeating a powerful pirate captain?

So the pirates in the region are generally based upon the one's from privateer days, attacking ships with fast and light craft so they can turn them in to whatever kingdom or faction is at odds with the crew they just raided. Some however are more akin to full fledged factions, taking hold of ports and requiring tribute from the locals and docking foreigners.

I have not gotten all the info on players and such, and I'm trying to have things prepped before a full session 0

So yeah, as the title says I am planning a homebrew pirate campaign, I'm huge into worldbuilding so I already got all the history and factions and lore (doesn't mean I don't want to hear any suggestions on stuff to add)

What I'd like to know is:
1: any suggestions on how to run things, or rules, tweaks, stories and the like would be very nice
2: I cannot decide how to do firearms, I'm leaning to early firearms but I specifically would like to add in colonial style rifles and those just don't feel like muskets OR rifles according to the rules
3: are there any books I should look into? I already have the core rulebook, ultimate equipment and combat, as well as a few more, I do not have the Inner Sea book
4: I am doing this in pathfinder 1st edition
5: I have GMd a few times before, but I am still young and stupid so any GMing advice is also good

Any suggestions or the like would be very nice and much appreciated!