In reply to Dungeon Master (msg # 27):

Well, While I am good in medicine I don't have any of those lores. So I will most likely be a low passenger.

Rafe would be interested in applying for a Midshipman position.

If he can't make that, he'd probably be one of the riggers.

Rigger it is!

Noted. Just missing placement for Kalia and Nenelethas.

Kalia has the skills to be one of the Mates (1st or 2nd), albeit low. Barring that, she could be one of their (or the Captains) stewards. With the Aspiring Free Captain background it seems fitting for any one of those positions.

You don't have to have every skill to take a position, or even be very highly positioned. I was just illustrating that there was more to running a boat than Intimidation and Sailling.

You are perfectly free to grab any available job. You are allowed to be bad and/or underqualified for the position you have :D

All you humans are missing out:

http://2e.aonprd.com/Feats.aspx?ID=952

Be from Bloodcove and you can get a swim speed!

That’s cool! I should be getting a swim speed at some level in the future :)

I will be a paying passenger. A purveyor of fine artifacts has paid my way on board to get me out of town before her husband finds out about our extracurricular activities.

WTH, make her the First Mates steward.

One last piece of consideration is that at some point in this game, you (collectively speaking) will be given a ship and a crew and everyone will turn to you guys and say "what do we do now?" and the answer had better be "let's go be f***ing pirates!"

This isn't a hero game. This isn't a "let's go do nice things for nice people" game. This is a f***ing "shoot holes in that ship, board them and take their stuff before fleeing the sea cops" game.

THAT BEING SAID there is still room for good in here. You can decide to take your share and Robin hood it up by using the stolen booty to buy orphanages and schools for homeless veteran orphans. You can decide to only take "half" the stuff you find. Or a 1/3rd or something. You can even decide that you're only going to prey on big merchant consortiums or rip off other pirates (although note that is playing the game on super hard mode) but at the end of the day you will be killing people to steal their gold.

If that doesn't gel with your character now is the time to treat them like an etch-a-sketch, give them a good shake and rewrite their motivations/personality/backstory or whatever to get them to the point where they will gleefully swing aboard someone else's ship with a knife in each hand (and one in the teeth for good measure) and add lots of holes to anyone standing between them and the giant chest bursting with gold.

In reply to Dungeon Master (msg # 41):

LOL! That's why she's here! To be a Free Captain! The one and only Dragon Mistress of the High Sea's!
This message was last edited by the player at 02:12, Wed 27 Jan 2021.

Oivind wants to experience the year long raiding season.

I was going to go for Captain as well but since I didn't know about the aspiring free captain feat.  So since I missed that I will settle for first mate.  I am going to look into taking that human feat.

I was hoping to wear high heels, skip and jump. I like to press wild flowers.


Wait... That's a different skit. Killing for gold? Sounds good.

Nenelethas wasn't planning on being a captain, but then again, who was :)

Kidding, Nenelethas will eventually make a better helmsman or the ship's "mage"

It's not a feat, it's a background. One that fit my background that I wrote in my rtj very well so I was happy I found it.

Yea I meant background, sorry.

It's ok pearl if kalia messes up we can toss her overboard and you can have your chance.

Genius :)

We may have to deal with her dragon too...

Depends on how quickly we get the sharks on her.

Also I'm not saying mutiny is going to happen I'm just saying it's always a possibility.

And all the other goodies I can summon too. Hehe

In reply to Nenelethas (msg # 50):

Dibs! Dibs on the dragon! I'm sure I can feed it something small and chewey with bones!

Now where did that goblin go...

Game hasn't even started and we are already planning to mutiny on the PC captain.

Mutiny? Naw. Zug Zug doesn't even know what that is. He just wants to feed a small creature to an even bigger creature so he can see what happens. Where else is an orc going to see a dragon eat something?