Sails & Legends Announcement
You are epic pirate captains in a loose confederation. Your mission is to explore the archipelago, deal with supernatural complications, and defend your gold against other pirates. The Admiral, Rakefelon Bones McBones, Slayer of the Hidden Sea has been cursed by the gods of the sea to walk only on soil, leaving you to fend for yourselves while he climbs the tallest mountain he can reach to meet with the sky gods for help.
This leaves you remaining captains in charge of the fleet’s home port of Deepwash Anchorage for the time being. You must work together with your crews behind you to deal with whatever threats appear. Fail and Rakefelon Bones McBones will have you nailed to the deck for sure.
Announcing the launch of Sails & Legends: a piratical hack of John Harper’s popular one page RPG, Lasers & Feelings. The game is available right now on Itch.io as a free, (though you can donate if you feel so moved) downloadable, 3 page PDF rulesheet.
There is no disguising the love I have for pirate history and the fantastical stories that are inspired by it. I also love RPGs in a demonstrable and time consuming way. So, it was probably only a matter of time before a pirate RPG was born out of these twin fascinations. This game is inspired by movies like Yellowbeard, Pirates: Band of Misfits and the Pirates of the Carribean franchise. I was also inspired by books like “The Pyrates” by George MacDonald Fraser and Gideon Defoe’s “The Pirates” series.
What unites all of these (aside from the obvious) is the inherent comedy found in the over the top personalities and completely bonkers situations they get themselves into. I hope that game runners and players will be inspired to create zany piratical adventures of their own using this simple and free-form system.
Sails & Legends can be played in 2-4 hours with some precision from the Game Master. It can be easily tailored to add or pull back on that play length. Character creation takes about 20 minutes, most of which is spent giggling.
Check out the game, let me know what you think and if this is the sort of thing you’d like to see more of. Then, pass it along and let your friends get excited too. Maybe I’ll do more one page games in the future. I’m working on publishable materials for Raptor’s Peak as a setting and collection of adventures which will end up as a Kickstarter project. Follow me here and on social media for more updates as well as all the other projects I’m releasing constantly.
