Nautical Nonsense Archives - Tribality https://www.tribality.com/columns/nautical-nonsense/ D&D / Role Playing Fri, 08 May 2020 02:52:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.tribality.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-logo-2020-icon@2x-32x32.jpg Nautical Nonsense Archives - Tribality https://www.tribality.com/columns/nautical-nonsense/ 32 32 Of Ships & Cannons – D&D 5e https://www.tribality.com/2018/11/15/ships-cannons-dd-5e/ https://www.tribality.com/2018/11/15/ships-cannons-dd-5e/#respond Fri, 16 Nov 2018 04:23:53 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=25751 The Seas of Vodari – 5th Edition Swashbuckling & Sorcery Everything you need to run exciting seafaring campaigns full of swashbuckling action and magical adventure for Fifth Edition. The Seas of Vodari is a full-color book that we are offering in hardcover and PDF. This book provides 200+ pages of material for gamemasters to run exciting seafaring campaigns for 5th Edition. Your players will get tons of options for creating characters and you’ll get support to run a world full […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2018/11/15/ships-cannons-dd-5e/feed/ 0 Naval Sea Chases & Complications https://www.tribality.com/2018/01/25/naval-sea-chases-complications/ https://www.tribality.com/2018/01/25/naval-sea-chases-complications/#comments Fri, 26 Jan 2018 03:16:01 +0000 http://www.tribality.com/?p=22983 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Sea Chases & Complications Get the Seas of Vodari at DriveThruRPG › Pre-Order the Hardcover › The Seas of Vodari – 5th Edition Swashbuckling & Sorcery Everything you need to run exciting seafaring campaigns full of swashbuckling action and magical adventure for Fifth Edition. The Seas of Vodari is a full-color book that we are offering in hardcover and PDF. This book provides 200+ pages of material for […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2018/01/25/naval-sea-chases-complications/feed/ 6 Weapons for a D&D 5e Pirate Campaign Setting https://www.tribality.com/2016/01/22/weapons-for-a-dd-5e-pirate-campaign-setting/ https://www.tribality.com/2016/01/22/weapons-for-a-dd-5e-pirate-campaign-setting/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2016 05:18:15 +0000 http://tribality.com/?p=14437 Pirate Weapons | Naval Combat Steampunk Weapons | Steampunk Armor | Steampunk Gear The Seas of Vodari – 5th Edition Swashbuckling & Sorcery Get the Seas of Vodari at DriveThruRPG › Pre-Order the Hardcover › Everything you need to run exciting seafaring campaigns full of swashbuckling action and magical adventure for Fifth Edition. The Seas of Vodari is a full-color book that we are offering in hardcover and PDF. This book provides 200+ pages of material for gamemasters to run […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2016/01/22/weapons-for-a-dd-5e-pirate-campaign-setting/feed/ 1 Naval Encounters for D&D 5th Edition https://www.tribality.com/2015/09/18/naval-combat-rules-for-dd-5th-edition-part-4/ https://www.tribality.com/2015/09/18/naval-combat-rules-for-dd-5th-edition-part-4/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2015 04:01:13 +0000 http://tribality.com/?p=3370 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Sea Chases & Complications The Seas of Vodari – 5th Edition Swashbuckling & Sorcery Everything you need to run exciting seafaring campaigns full of swashbuckling action and magical adventure for Fifth Edition. The Seas of Vodari is a full-color book that we are offering in hardcover and PDF. This book provides 200+ pages of material for gamemasters to run exciting seafaring campaigns for 5th Edition. Your players will […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2015/09/18/naval-combat-rules-for-dd-5th-edition-part-4/feed/ 3 Bard College of the Shanty-Master https://www.tribality.com/2015/09/03/bard-college-of-the-shanty-master/ https://www.tribality.com/2015/09/03/bard-college-of-the-shanty-master/#respond Thu, 03 Sep 2015 21:00:55 +0000 http://tribality.com/?p=11092 Arrrh Mateys! This week we have a guest post from Mark Cookman of Black Shark Enterprises. If you ever wanted a sea shanty singing bard, then you best be checkin’ out this homebrew for D&D’s 5th edition. College of the Shanty-Master Bards of the College of the Shanty-Master dedicate their lives to traveling the worlds via sailing ships crewed by all the races that sail and from all those peoples the shanty-master bard learns tales of nature, history, and legend […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2015/09/03/bard-college-of-the-shanty-master/feed/ 0 Unearthed Arcana: Character Options for a High Seas Campaign https://www.tribality.com/2015/05/04/unearthed-arcana-character-options-for-a-high-seas-campaign/ https://www.tribality.com/2015/05/04/unearthed-arcana-character-options-for-a-high-seas-campaign/#comments Mon, 04 May 2015 17:13:54 +0000 http://tribality.com/?p=7398 As some of you might know, I run a waterborne campaign of my own in my Vodari setting. In the latest Unearthed Arcana, Mike Mearls has provided some great options for your seafaring adventures. I actually set-up Minotaurs and Swashbucklers for my campaign… but this take is great and my Swashbuckler was clearly inferior. The Mariner fighting style and Storm Sorcerer are great player options for a waterborne campaign too. Information is provided for: a Minotaur race (Krynn) a fighting […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2015/05/04/unearthed-arcana-character-options-for-a-high-seas-campaign/feed/ 4 And Hang the Musikers, Too – Even More Roles on a Pirate Ship https://www.tribality.com/2015/04/18/and-hang-the-musikers-too-even-more-roles-on-a-pirate-ship/ https://www.tribality.com/2015/04/18/and-hang-the-musikers-too-even-more-roles-on-a-pirate-ship/#respond Sat, 18 Apr 2015 13:00:10 +0000 http://tribality.com/?p=6637 Here is the final post in this series by guest poster Mark S. Cookman. Previously in this series I looked at command officers and mid-grade officers on a pirate or privateer vessel. In this article, we will be looking at the makeup of the crew itself. Remember that the only rule with pirates is that there are no rules; no two crews of any two pirate ships were exactly the same. Even so, we can narrow down some roles common […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2015/04/18/and-hang-the-musikers-too-even-more-roles-on-a-pirate-ship/feed/ 0 Creating an Archipelago World https://www.tribality.com/2015/04/17/creating-an-archipelago-world/ https://www.tribality.com/2015/04/17/creating-an-archipelago-world/#respond Fri, 17 Apr 2015 17:01:19 +0000 http://tribality.com/?p=6754 It’s been a crazy week and I’m only about 50% done my the second entry in the Adventure Building series. I thought this guest post by Ben Latham would be an excellent replacement for me this week and my series will resume next week. – Shawn In this article, I will reference a great deal of other content available for free at Tribality. There will be links included below, in the description, for anything that I reference. It is no […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2015/04/17/creating-an-archipelago-world/feed/ 0 The Next in Line to Hang – More Roles on a Pirate Ship https://www.tribality.com/2015/04/11/more-roles-on-a-pirate-ship/ https://www.tribality.com/2015/04/11/more-roles-on-a-pirate-ship/#comments Sat, 11 Apr 2015 22:39:14 +0000 http://tribality.com/?p=6633 Here is another guest posting by Mark S. Cookman for our Nautical Nonsense column. In the first part of this series, I looked at Officer Roles on a Pirate Ship. In this second part of a three part lesson dealing with the crew positions aboard a pirate vessel, we are going to look at the responsibilities of the Sail-master, the Carpenter, the Cook, the Surgeon, and the Master at Arms. These were all lower officer positions and were either voted […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2015/04/11/more-roles-on-a-pirate-ship/feed/ 1 Officer Roles on a Pirate Ship https://www.tribality.com/2015/04/07/officer-roles-on-a-pirate-ship/ https://www.tribality.com/2015/04/07/officer-roles-on-a-pirate-ship/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:00:43 +0000 http://tribality.com/?p=6393 Here is another guest posting by Mark S. Cookman for our Nautical Nonsense column. If you are running a game with pirates in it, then you should know what the job entails. It’s not all boarding ships, counting booty, and drinking rum like you might think. A great deal of hard work is required to run a sailing ship with a law-abiding crew, let alone one populated by pirates. In this essay we are going to examine the five principle […]

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