I recently began playing the Skull & Shackles adventure path with a group of friends. Like Carrion Crown, I recap the sessions on my blog.
So far, the first session begged the question, "We're On a Boat?!" and in the second, the (mostly) pressganged sailors had to contend with Bilge Rats & Brawlers, as well as the consequences of the stiff-necked chivalry of one of their own.
This week, your intrepid pirates Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles as they get off the damn boat for a while not once, but twice!
It's all hands to battle stations when a mast appears on the horizon, with it comes the task of Capturing Man's Promise.
Catch up with the story so far of the wayward conscripts. They've come a long ways from the mutiny aboard Man's Promise -- and none of it was easy.
Catch up with the story so far of the wayward conscripts. They've come a long ways from the mutiny aboard Man's Promise -- and none of it was easy.
Woo! Granted, that was a LONG time ago, but I still wish you'd kept up your journal! We're just now dabbling our toes into this; I'm a barely 2nd level Game Master dealing with four 90th+ level players (old buddies, and I'm no slouch either at player experience), and I'm finding Skull and Shackles very rough going, especially the "social sandbox" at the beginning, but I have confidence once we get to Part 2 and beyond.
In the meantime, there were some WONDERFUL ideas for incorporating all kinds of things in your entries, and keeping everyone busy with things to do! Our group, of course, has different approaches (a half-orc Storm Druid, a suli jann Aquatic Wildborn Sorceress, a seascarred skinwalker Ranger, a half-elf Rogue, a human Cleric of Cayden Cailean, and a human Swashbuckler), and we're barely past the first day/night (Magpie met his end, and Andrei the Cleric got his stuff back, minus his weapons and armor [which wouldn't be lugged around on ship normally anyway, and all of that's in the Armory], by impressing Grok). I felt woefully under-prepared for this session, so I'm desperately scrambling around, looking for advice/help/anecdotes/etc., and I'm highly inspired by your annals! :D
Thanks! :)