So January was the month were I started my Pirates of the Spanish Main campaign. None of the group had played Savage Worlds before so I stuck with the scenario from the back of the rulebook because it’s an excellent way to learn the rules (being as it covers most of the situations you’re going to come across – combat, a social scene, a chase, ship-to-ship combat, and a boarding action).

I think it went well. There were a few glitches (which, hopefully, weren’t spotted) but the players jumped on board with the system fully. Tricks and attack options (other than “I hit him“) aplenty. I certainly enjoyed running it and they kept me on my toes by making, in character, decisions that I wasn’t expecting. It does mean that they now have a recurring Enemy (capitalised because they all gained the Hindrance from it) and a potential troublemaker that could come back to haunt them.

They finished with a nice haul of treasure, a stolen ship and the entire Caribbean to explore. The world is their oyster :)

Last night’s session was a playtest. That does mean that I can’t go into any details (NDAs being what they are) but it was fun. No major problems found during the actual session, but lots of good (I hope anyway :)) feedback from reading through the draft documents. More reading to come and then another session or two to test out those aspects. Looking forward to it :D

I’m back at the tiller, running some lovely Pirates of the Spanish Main for my group. None of them have played Savage Worlds before so the first part of tonight’s session will be character creation and a brief rules-overview. I’ve got two hardback copies of the rules and I’ve also printed out a couple of copies of the Player’s Guide so we should have enough to go around. I’m also tempted to pack my two copies of the Explorer’s Edition of the rules (my Deluxe Edition would be a step too far I think ;)) to help speed up character creation (that will give us one each then) – although I have all the rules on my new tablet anyway ;)

Most of my evenings these past couple of weeks have been spent creating various bits and pieces for the game and, as I’m such a nice person, I’m going to share them here. If you’d like to share them further please do, but please link to this post rather than the downloads directly. Thanks :)

Oh, and for those who are interested, the campaign website can be found at pirates.mcalister.org.uk.

Character Sheet

Reference Sheet

GM Screen

The artwork is by Anry Nemo.

The Royal Crown

The Royal Crown is the tavern that appears in the introductory scenario at the back of the rulebook. I’ve created it in Dundjinni ready for any combats that occur ;) The link is to the Dunjinni .dja file format. The copyright for the original map belongs with Pinnacle and I make no claims to it.

There’s a thread over at Triple Ace Games’ forum asking about your oldest die. Mine is a, now almost spherical, d12 from the old Red Box D&D set. The oldest that I still use is a green “clear” d20. I can’t remember where I got it and it isn’t used every week, but it does see the light of day at least once a month. How old is your oldest die?