Pirates? The heyday of pirates in the Caribbean was around 1700, during the Spanish Succession Wars, IIRC. (Okay, I went to Wikipedia to be sure and it says the time from 1650 to the 1730s is considered the Golden Age of piracy)
To be sure, piracy still exists in various places in the world even today, e.g. near the Horn of Africa or the Straits of Malacca. But it seems odd to date it to the late 19th century…🤔
Golden age of piracy for the western world ended in the 18th century, but piracy in the China and Indian sea was booming in the 19th century.
There was a us military action in Korea in 1875. During that expedition you could reasonably have had a western gunslinger have a run in with Japanese samurai and Chinese pirates? Not sure how Dracula gets worked into the scene though.
But were these Chinese pirates anything like we think of western pirates, with peg legs and hook hands and eye patches and parrots and walking planks? I imagine that’s what we’re thinking of in the RPG party we’re assembling. Though much of that would have been fiction as well.
Now I’m thinking of the Archer episodes where he becomes pirate king.
They probably dressed differently, but the weapons and medicine should have been roughly similar. Maybe the have steam boats instead of sailing boats, but adding a bit of steampunk vibe doesn’t hurt the RPG party. And no reason to believe they were any less boozy than golden age caribbean pirates.
imagine that’s what we’re thinking of in the RPG party we’re assembling.
Think that’s more of a failure of imagination than anything. Nothing is saying that rpg characters are standardized strictly by western interpretation. That would be a bit chauvinistic.
Pirates? The heyday of pirates in the Caribbean was around 1700, during the Spanish Succession Wars, IIRC. (Okay, I went to Wikipedia to be sure and it says the time from 1650 to the 1730s is considered the Golden Age of piracy)
To be sure, piracy still exists in various places in the world even today, e.g. near the Horn of Africa or the Straits of Malacca. But it seems odd to date it to the late 19th century…🤔
Golden age of piracy for the western world ended in the 18th century, but piracy in the China and Indian sea was booming in the 19th century.
There was a us military action in Korea in 1875. During that expedition you could reasonably have had a western gunslinger have a run in with Japanese samurai and Chinese pirates? Not sure how Dracula gets worked into the scene though.
But were these Chinese pirates anything like we think of western pirates, with peg legs and hook hands and eye patches and parrots and walking planks? I imagine that’s what we’re thinking of in the RPG party we’re assembling. Though much of that would have been fiction as well.
Now I’m thinking of the Archer episodes where he becomes pirate king.
They probably dressed differently, but the weapons and medicine should have been roughly similar. Maybe the have steam boats instead of sailing boats, but adding a bit of steampunk vibe doesn’t hurt the RPG party. And no reason to believe they were any less boozy than golden age caribbean pirates.
Think that’s more of a failure of imagination than anything. Nothing is saying that rpg characters are standardized strictly by western interpretation. That would be a bit chauvinistic.