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[–] ilovededyoupiggy 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was that the samurai that sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln?

[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 1 hour ago

Is that an event that occured?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

There's a holodeck episode in there somewhere

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I built a one-shot around this idea on a heavily-modded Tiny D6 system, letting people choose which of the 4 they wanted to be with variants like wealthy or scientific Victorian, captain or gunner pirate, disgraced or retired Samurai, cattle driver or 49'er, and so forth. I set it in San Francisco to get some good conflux of cultures.

Of my 4 players, 3 of them chose to be rich Victorians. facepalm

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Rip, gotta find new players

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Well, you just gotta only allow one archetype per team, figure out a system for the players to draft their choice fairly, and then let the chips fall where they may.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

There's a cowboy in Dracula

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

According to that image French privateering ended before two of those other things started, right?

Am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

I think that's why they specified an "elderly" privateer - past their glory days.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That‘s the reason for elderly French pirate. The people involved didn’t just disappear because privateering ended.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Wait, you're telling me that privateers don't just grow into the hulls of their ships like Bill Turner?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some say there are pirates to this very day, and that they sail a sea that holds no water

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_off_the_coast_of_Somalia

There are pirates right now, and they are sailing on water.

They just don't , you know, dress up like old timey pirates.

[–] Scubus 1 points 1 day ago

Real missed opportunity tbh. Scurvy is neccassary for my immersion in the experiance

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Elderly French pirate so they would be in in their 60s or more

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I don't think a pirate being as young as 12 would have been impossible, so they could be in their 50s too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

[off topic?]

"Red Sun" Toshiro Mifune and Charles Bronson. After bandits steal a sword being carried to Washington, a samurai and a gunslinger must unite to bring it home.

https://youtu.be/MdtyruRMlns

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I keep saying I'm going to play a PC based on Kingo Nonaka.

But in my version he would have also briefly been a Pacific ocean pirate during his journey from Japan to Mexico.