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I'm pretty excited, coming back from PaizoCon, to hear of the next AP. I'm going to start a thread of secondary resources for Pirate campaigns that we can all chip in onto (a la my Vudra stuff).
My first post are fiction and nonfiction resources, a link to a movie site and Pyle's pics.
I'll return perhaps later today with some rules books from the d20/OGL lineage.
I've got a list of adventures here. I'll update it in this thread eventually.
Fiction
Bunch, Chris. Corsair. (2001). Fantasy
Burroughs, William S. Cities of the Red Night, 1981 (Libertatia lives!)
Cooper, James Fenimore, The Red Rover.
Crichton, Michael. Pirate Latitudes. Sorry James, no dinosaurs.
Defoe, Daniel, Captain Singleton, [1720].
Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe, Parts I and II, [1719-1720].
Feist, Raymond. The King’s Buccaneer.
Fraser, George MacDonald, The Pyrates, [A Plume Book, 1983].
Goldman, William. The Princess Bride
Hobb, Robin. Live Ship series.
Keating, Mark. The Pirate Devlin series.
Lee, Tanith. Piratica (YA)
Lynch, Scott, Lies of Locke Lamora series.
Poe, Edgar Allan, The Gold Bug, [1843].
Powers, Tim, On Stranger Tides, [Ace Books, NY, NY, 1987].
Sabatini, Rafael, The Black Swan, [1932]
__, Captain Blood, [1922].
__, Captain Blood Returns, [1931].
__, The Fortunes of Captain Blood, [1936].
__, The Sea Hawk,
Salgari, Emilio. Sandokan series.
Scott, Sir Walter, The Pirate, 1822.
Smith, Sherwood. Inda
Steinbeck, John, Cup of Gold, [1937].
Stevenson, Robert. L., Kidnapped, [1886].
Stevenson, R. L., Treasure Island, [1883].
VanderMeer, Ann (editor). Fast Ships, Black Sails. (Short Stories).
Verne, Jules. Facing the Flag.
---, The Mysterious Island.
---, Ten Thousand Leagues under the Sea.
Nonfiction
Biddulph, John, The Pirates of Malabar, and An Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago [1907].
Clifford, Barry, Expedition Whydah, [Cliff Street Books, 1999]
Creighton, Margaret & Lisa Norling, ed. Iron Men & Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700 -1920 [Johns Hopkins, 1996].
Defoe, Daniel. A General History of the Pyrates. Dover Publications, 1999, ISBN 0-486-40488-9. Possibly not actually by Defoe but generally assigned to him bibliographically. Also listed as by Captain Johnson, the claimed author.
Exquemelin, A. O. (aka John Esquemeling), History of the Buccaneers of America, [Rio Grande Press, 1992]
Frank, Stuart M. The Book of Pirate Songs, [Kendall Whaling Museum, Sharon, MA 1998]
Johnson, Donald S. Phantom Islands of the Atlantic Quill, 1998. ISBN-13 9780380730780.
Hugill, Stan, Songs of the Sea: the Tales and Tunes of Sailors and Sailing Ships, [McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1977]
Johnson, Cathy, Pirates in Petticoats: A Fanciful & Factual History of the Legends, Tales and Exploits of the most notorious Female Pirates and also Some Lesser Known Women Who Plied the Seas and inland Waterways for Fortune, Adventure & Romance From Ireland, China, The Bahamas, and the Barbary Coast to the Americas [Graphics/Fine Arts Press, 2000]
Lafitte, Jean, The Memoirs Of Jean Lafitte (poss. fake)
Pawson, Michael & David Buisseret, Port Royal, Jamaica, [University of the West Indies Press, 2000].
Rediker, Marcus, Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, & the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 [Cambridge University Press, 1987]
Ritchie, Robert C., Captain Kidd and the War against the Pirates, [Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1986].
Rogozinski, Jan, Honor Among Thieves: Captain Kidd, Henry Every, and the Pirate Democracy in the Indian Ocean, [Stackpole Books, 2000]
Talty, Stephan , Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign [Crown, 2007]
Wilson, Peter Lamborn, Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs & European Renegadoes. ISBN 1-57027-158-5 (Autonomedia, 1996) – very interesting! (Anarchist perspective)
Zacks, Richard. The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd. Hyperion, 2002, ISBN-13 978-0786865338.
Howard Pyle’s great pirate illustrations (and stories) are found here.
I’m not going to bother listing movies because of this site.
Hmmpff. You managed to include all the ones I'd already thought of. :)
But, thinking a bit harder, I'd also add these pieces of fiction:
Carey, Jacqueline, Kushiel's Chosen
Cunningham, Elaine, Tangled Webs
Davis, Lindsey, Scandal Takes a Holiday
Odom, Mel, Threat from the Sea trilogy
Game-materials:
Rea, Nicky, Corsairs of the Great Sea
Schend, Steven, Sea of Falling Stars
---, Lands of Intrigue (the Nelanther Isles chapter of the Tethyr book, in particular.
---, Cloak & Dagger
Scott, Curtis, Pirates of the Fallen Stars
Fiction
Mieville, China - The Scar
Wooding, Chris - Tales of Ketty Jay series
Kearney, Paul - The Sea Beggars series
Wolfe, Gene - Pirate Freedom
I actually ran part of Savage Tide using the Skull and Bones setting -- changed Sasserine to Cartagena; & changed the demons to Cthulhu Mythos creatures. I acquired a fair amount of books and pdfs then to run this. I don't own everything here (* are missing) and would be curious to see what people think of this list. I am certain I missed a few -- and I'm not duplicating Kajehase's suggestions, above.
Rules and Sourcebooks
1st edition and Basic Set
GAZ9: Minrothad Guilds*. Mystara. Contains seagoing trade rules.
2nd edition
Of Ships and the Sea. TSR (excellent)
The Scarlet Brotherhood (Greyhawk)
3-3.5/d20/OGL
Aargh, Pirates* (Avalon Games) (OGL)
Black Flags: Piracy in the Caribbean (Avalanche). – the rules sections are OGL. Lots of prestige classes and weapon rules but not much detail on ship to ship.
Broadsides! (Living Imagination) (the rules themselves for ships and combat are OGL). This uses a hex grid for naval battles as well as a ten-minute round to run the chase and maneuvering portions of an encounter. (The standard 6 second round means the ships practically stand still during boarding and close range if they are trying to go the same way—unless they are headed in opposite directions, in which case they end up crossing the grid map really rapidly. It’s tough to turn a ship).
d20 Past (for d20 Modern) (WotC) – contains a Pirates campaign.
Heroes of Fantasy (Mongoose) – Pirate class (OGL)
Into the Blue (Bastion) – monster book, many of which are quite cool. (not OGL)
Pirates! (Living Imagination)—(partly OGL) – complements Broadsides!
Power Classes IX – Pirate* (Mongoose) – Pirate class (OGL)
Salt & Sea Dogs: the Pirates of Tellene (Kenzer) – contains shipbuilding rules and some ship combat rules. Ships are objects, not characters.
Seafarer’s Handbook (Fantasy Flight)—ship construction rules. The combat rules use a square grid; the ships seem to be a bit too nimble by my eyes…
Seas of Blood* (Mongoose) – OGL in part, I think
Skull & Bones (Green Ronin) – mostly Open Content, except for setting. The ship combat rules are a variation on those in Corsair.
Stormwrack (WotC)
Unorthodox Pirates* (Le Games)
Pathfinder 3rd Party
Corsair (Cubicle 7) PF edition of the d20 book. See Skull & Bones, above. Corsair uses a gunpowder setting; in it, ships are statted as if characters and fight (at range) as single entities. It uses the standard round, meaning movement and maneuvers are very slow (10-15 rounds for raising sail, for instance).
The Pirate’s Guide to Freeport (PF)
Fiction:
Black Vulmea's Vengeance, by Robert E Howard. Three pirate short stories. Out of print and possibly hard to get, but it _is_ Robert E Howard. I just started re-reading this book this weekend, before I came back to the Paizo site and found out what the new AP is going to be about. So far, the first short story (I am about two chapters into it) is very good.
Walrus and the Warwulf - Hugh Cook
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Books
The Only Life That Mattered: The Short and Merry Lives of Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and Calico Jack Rackam - James Nelson 4 Cannons out of 5 rating
The Guardship : Book One of the Brethren of the Coast (Nelson, James L. Brethren of the Coast, Bk. 1.) -James Nelson 4.5 Cannons out of 5 rating
The Blackbirder: Book Two of the Brethren of the Coast - James Nelson 4 out of 5 cannons rating
The Pirate Round: Book Three of the Brethren of the Coast - James Nelson 4 out of 5 cannons rating
All of these books are filled with action
A bottle of rum for each person involved. I mean seriously what else would you need to play a pirate AP? :)
A second Bottle of Rum for each person.
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Neither book nor rpg material, but methinks this needs to be mentioned.
I am also rather fond of Zombie Pirates
This thread lists modules and resources for a pirate campaign. Maybe there's some OGL stuff in there that can be of use.
Obviously the TLAP Day - Why talk like a pirate and how! site is a must read.
