Poison'd: a pirate rpg
An RPG about pirates¸ focusing on the dark and harsh life of pirates. It is set in 1701¸ following the assassination of Captain Brimstone Jack by his cook under the King's orders. It uses an abstract dice pool system¸ where players roll a number of six-sided dice equal to stat¸ and results of 4¸5 or 6 are considered successes. Combat is categorized in four different ways for personal combat (fist¸ knife¸ sword and gun) and ship combat (pursuit¸ ranged¸ guns¸ and boarding). Combat has options for escalation and increased consequences. In character generation¸ players answer a series of questions by choosing from lists of options¸ which generates a small collection of statistics for sins¸ suffering¸ ambitions and gear. It also has campaign rules for Opportunities (including Elections¸ Prizes¸ Leisure¸ Betrayal and Urgent Considerations) that have mechanical consequences. - A description fromdarkshire.netwith kind permission of John H. Kim