Dumarest
Vaquero de Alta California
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This book has a lot of useful details for running a game set in the Caribbean, including an appendix of Spanish weights, measures, and containers, examples of merchants' marks, a glossary of nautical terms, "New World exports and plunder" to give you some great ideas for treasures, coinage of various powers, description of a traditional boucanier barbecue, a list of real privateer, buccaneer, filibuster, and pirate captains and their vessels, an explanation of a ship's officer's ranks (positions, really) and shares, and an example of a ship's articles (the terms of employment for a pirate expedition). This is all in addition to about 220 pages covering various aspects of a buccaneer's world in the late 17th century, plus maps and drawings of different types of vessels and weapons.
Edit: just read that the author was (or is?) an advisor on a pirate-themed TV series called Black Sails, of which I have only seen about 15 minutes which took place on dry land and was all expositional talking so I can't judge whether it's any good.
Edit: just read that the author was (or is?) an advisor on a pirate-themed TV series called Black Sails, of which I have only seen about 15 minutes which took place on dry land and was all expositional talking so I can't judge whether it's any good.
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