| SvenFTW |
In the game I'm DMing we actually had a character receive a keelhauling! He came one die roll away from actually surviving the whole ordeal, but the drowning rules are unforgiving when you go unconscious underwater.
What went down:
A couple of our group wanted to stick it to Fipps Chumlett, who had become their nemesis on the boat with a quickness. They went below and broke into his footlocker during dinner and stole everything he owned. Both characters quickly hid all of the contraband very well, except for a vial of Alchemist's Fire that was given to a third PC to pay off a 1gp debt.
When Fipps saw his locker looted, he raised a cry and the whole crew was made to stand against the walls while lockers and bodies were searched. The two guilty PCs were smug because they knew these sailors would never find where they hid the loot and they were right, they got away with it.
However, the PC holding the Alchemist's Fire didn't even know it was stolen property, so he took no pains to hide it. When it was found, he was thrown directly into the sweatbox before he could even say, "I stole what, now?"
He made a new character, and the players are thinking about naming their ship after him when they squib it.