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Pirates of the Spanish Main: Swashbuckling Roleplaying in the Age of Sail

Published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group

Written by Paul "Wiggy" Wade-Williams with Simon Lucas & Clint Black

Illustrated by Aaron Acevedo, Nicole Cardiff, Julie Dillon, Mo Ellliott, Chris Griffin, Mike Hamlett, Vincent Hie, Satya Hody, Dan Howard, Slawomir Maniak, R K Post, Joe Slucher, Christophe Swal, Justin Sweet, & John Worsley

Cartography by Robin Elliott

258-Page full-color hardcover; $39.99

Here is a curious thing: Just when you thought a genre was utterly passé, up pops a game to prove you wrong. Pirates were all the rage back in 2003, riding the wake left by the film Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, so it is surely no coincidence that the latest entry in the genre, the Pirates of the Spanish Main: Swashbuckling Roleplaying in the Age of Sail RPG, has been released just before the debut of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. The game is based upon the WizKids CSG of the same name, which itself got a new expansion prior to the opening of the film and also happens to be the only game that survived the 2003 trend.

The Pirates of the Spanish Main RPG uses Shane Lacy Hensley's Savage Worlds, also from Pinnacle Entertainment, but it is a complete, standalone RPG and does not need the core rules. Although the genre is not new to Savage Worlds -- Pinnacle having visited it before with 50 Fathoms, a more fantastical take upon the genre . . .
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Article publication date: June 8, 2007

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