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submitted 1 year ago by jossbo@lemmy.ml to c/dnd@lemmy.world

Please be careful with spoilers from major campaigns, particularly Curse of Strand cos I'm playing through that atm please thank you 😊

I'll go first...

I'm running a homebrew pirate campaign and I have a character called Rusty Ben who's great fun to play. He's a warforged in the form of a skeleton made of rusted iron. He wears a pirate hat and he has a stuffed parrot nailed to his shoulder. He's a great sailor, who never tires, or eats, and he even keeps watch as he 'sleeps', because warforged. He's also handy with repair work, so he's a valuable member of the party's pirate crew. He's very friendly and speaks in a kind of silly Southern US accent. When he asked to join the party's crew, he held put a gold piece and said "I can pay my own way!". They declined and one of them gave him a silver piece as wages. He was bowled over by their generosity. Another player offered him a copper piece as well, and he got all serious and said, "No, no... let me earn the copper piece."

He acts as a kind of sailoring guide for the party. He has worked aboard quite a few pirate ships, until he was aboard one that sank in battle. He walked for a long time across the bottom of the sea and eventually found an island and just walked up onto the beach, where he met the crew of The Candlestick Maker’s Revenge and joined them, which is where the party met him at the start of the campaign. They took passage on that ship to get to the island chain that is the setting fornthe canpaign. He's one of my favourite people that I've ever made up!

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[-] eerongal@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 year ago

My favorite npc I ever ran was in a homebrew spelljammer campaign a few years ago, the foible for the party was a beholder pirate captain named eye-beard who would constantly one-up or outmaneuver the party. Also let me talk like a pirate. After they killed him he later came back as a death tyrant

[-] jossbo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Love the beholder pirate captain, may have to steal him for my campaign!

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