Are pirates adventurers?
I suppose they can be if they don't stick to the same waters all the time.
See new ports, meet new people, and rob the shit out of them.
>>47109033
Pirates are thieves and murderers and need to be hanged.
>>47109033
>Are rectangles squares?
Some can fit into the category and definition, some would not. It depends on how they choose to act, what their goals and motivations are, and the definitions given by (you guessed it) the setting.
But yes, a pirate can be an adventurer.
>>47109090
I don't see that as mutually exclusive to being an adventurer, though. Actually there seems to be a lot of overlap.
>>47109154
Indeed, including the need to be hanged
>>47109154
"Adventurers" who steal and murder are bandits and killers who should be executed.
>>47109205
Unless they're you're guys, and they're robbing and killing those other guys.
Pirates are murderhoboes with ships. A knight is a murderhobo with armor and a horse. A noble is a murderhobo with a castle.
A BBEG is a murderhobo with an entire country. Please let's not pretend that [simulated] loot and pillage isn't what we're here for.
>>47109033
Dude, we had a Muppet song about this and everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1l7N-WLa3Q
>"True friendship and adventure are what we can't live without - and when you're a professional pirate...that's what the job's about!"
This now be a buccaneer pic'tur thread, me harteys!
>>47110558
Aye, lads, the lasses o' the sea but need a strong arrrrm t' tame them.
>>47110565
Keep the grog coming, matey!
>>47109033
In the same way that anyone living is, yes.
Everyday in your life is an adventure.
What is your definition of adventure OP?
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>>47109033
By the classical definition, yes.
By the D&D definition, no.
>>47110677
Last one I'm gonna post. A personal favorite of mine, too.
>>47109033
They're a bunch of foul-smelling, grog-swilling pigs!
Pirates are just wet and salty highwaymen.
>>47109033
That pirate can adventure onto this dick tbqhwy mi familia.
>Barbarian buccaneer
>>47111797
well meme'd m88
>>47111804
Like a Viking?
>>47109033
Well, they're Murder Hobo's on the high sea's...
So yeah, I guess.
Time to get a 10 foot pole and travel to Somalia!
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>>47109205
>this is what guards actually believe
LaughingCorsars.jpg
Whay always female pirates are gorgeous babes with a generous cleavage or showing the belly?
>>47110558
>only one pistol
Amateurs.
>>47113775
why not?
>>47113775
Because 99% of women in fantasy are sluts.
>>47113777
I approve of this mentality wholeheartedly.
>>47113777
This IS one thing I dislike about a lot of fantasy art of pirates. They carry like... two pistols, tops, when carrying like five or six is a) more realistic b) way more bad-ass looking.
I'd be grateful of any art of pirates from times before the golden age of sail like antiquity or middle ages
yes, like asterix pirates for example, but in more serious manner
>>47113904
That's problem with any fantasy shooters - they almost never carry backup guns and absolutely never carry spare ammunition.
>>47113915
While piracy HAS always been a thing, before the Golden Age of Piracy, it was a very different thing. Cannons were expensive and hard to come by, and so were ships. Pirates are like bandits with one crucial difference: they can be killed by the road they work on if they're anything less than professional, and pirates are almost never professional.
There's a reason the imagery of the golden age of piracy is so lasting: it was the first (and, honestly, only) time in history when pirates were that clean-cut, well equipped and autonomous. Remember, the vast majority of the new pirates in the Caribbean were just recently, uh, shall we say, 'laid off' from the British navy, so they had, on average, wildly better equipment and training than the vast majority of pirates before and after.
tl;dr the reason you don't hear as much about pirates from other eras is because they were dirty, poorly equipped, died quickly and frankly just weren't very impressive in general.
>>47113985
Absolutely; it's even more egregious as relates to pirates, though, since any pirate with enough money would carry as many loaded pistols as effectively possible. A bandolier of six would only be rational; no one has time to pack shot mid boarding action, and the conditions meant that misfires and jams were incredibly common.
>>47114010
wasn't piracy a quite huge thing in roman era mediteranean?
or in 14-15 century baltic and north seas, driving the hansa mad?
>>47110538
>Tim Curry singing
I will never not ejaculate to this
>>47113775
The crew's moral is very important, you know.
