What resources do you feel would be particularly inspirational for Skull and Shackles?
A few that come off the top of my head:
- Captain Blood (movie)
- Count of Monte Cristo (book by Alexandre Dumas and movie)
- Pirates of the Caribbean (movie series)
I just finished George R. R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons and was looking for another book to read when it occurred to me that I should use this opportunity to start a book with a piratical theme so if anyone can think of a book along those lines, I'd appreciate it.
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Book :
"On Stranger Tides" (Tim Powers). The one, the original... NOT the PotC IV rip-off. Scientific magic meets voodoo meets Blackberads meets Fountain of Youth...
"Red Seas under Red Skies" : Scott Lynch. Probably the very best fantasy pirates (sans Gunplay) in contemporary literature
"If a pirate I must be" : the true story of Batholomew Roberts. Real pirate history. Quite enlightening, too.
"Empire of the Sea" . Roger Crowley, highly entertaining history of galley warfare, corsairs and coastal raiding in the 16th century mediterranean. Chilling - one can also tak notes for fiendish exploits and heroic stunts.
"The Mark of Ran" : Paul Kearney. (also the rest of the Sea Beggars story arc ). Not as good as Lynch, but rousing nevertheless
Movie :
"Master And Commander - the Far Side of the World". Absolutely unbeaten for _real_ seamanship chases and naval action. Fan.tas.tic.
"Sinbad" : the animated movie (2003), cool seamonster, interesting "high fantasy encounters", interesting villainous deity.
Aguire - the Wrath of God
1492 - Conquest of Paradise": Ridley Scott
Documentary :
"BBC - Wild Carribean" : top notch tropical athmosphere, ideas, landscape... very immersive
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"The Sea Hawks" with Errol Flynn. Good stuff. I'm also pulling out my copy of Stormwrack for some extra fun.
How about some Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, South Seas Tales and a couple of his short stories are classic high seas / pirate tales.
Also if your going for just an age of sail theme a couple of the Horatio Hornblower or Sharpe's books might have some good themes in them.
Actually, we may have just stumbled upon the single most useful occupation for Moby Dick. (Up until now, number one was inspiring that Borg metaphor in First Contact.) I'll have to dig a copy out from somewhere and use it as a sort of daily-sailing reference guide.
Actually, we may have just stumbled upon the single most useful occupation for Moby Dick. (Up until now, number one was inspiring that Borg metaphor in First Contact.) I'll have to dig a copy out from somewhere and use it as a sort of daily-sailing reference guide.
The title of part 6, From Hell's Heart, is also a quote from Moby Dick. Captain Ahab curses the whale with the words "Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee." Part of this quote is also used in Star Trek, by Khan in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Actually, we may have just stumbled upon the single most useful occupation for Moby Dick. (Up until now, number one was inspiring that Borg metaphor in First Contact.) I'll have to dig a copy out from somewhere and use it as a sort of daily-sailing reference guide.The title of part 6, From Hell's Heart, is also a quote from Moby Dick. Captain Ahab curses the whale with the words "Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee." Part of this quote is also used in Star Trek, by Khan in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Geek-tastic man!