[MR] Assassins vs. Pirates....

[Vels inn Viggladi]

It's not so much that it's done, but how. Most of the pirates that tend to appear look like extras in a Disney Theme park. Sure, Francis Drake in the 16th Century. But what about Barnim VI, Duke of Pomerania, the Likedeelers, Magister Wigbold (A Pirate Monk, I S**T you not) from the 14th and 15th Centuries. The Barbarossa brothers in the Mediterrainian about the same time. All these were at times aligned politically, but for long periods of time they were operating as complete outlaws. (Except maybe Barnim, he kinda was the law...) 
Be a fun study, perhaps, to see how many of the Condottieri had naval elements, and how often they were used. 

If we were seeing more 'privateers' from sometime other the edge of our age or beyond, then maybe there'd not be so quick a leap to lumping pirates with assassins.

Its not that it's done, so much as it is often done badly.


Vels


> Remember, this is a game, and it's supposed to be for fun.... If I want to
> play a Nautical persona, and it's not affecting anyone else's fun, then why
> not?  Because some people who used to have fun are now sticks in the mud and
> think that "Pirates aren't Period", or "Pirates aren't noble"????
> 
> Sir Francis Drake would be a perfect example, IN PERIOD.... A Knight to the
> English, and a Pirate to the Spanish.
> 
...
> Just me two doubloons on the table.....
> 
>  Until the next,
> Yours in service,
> 
> 
> Cap'n Jack Black of Flint
> ((AKA: BlackJack))
> Lord and Master of "The Raptor"
> Seneschal, Barony of Hidden Mountain 
> Brute for Hire


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