#we're bad guys! we're textually bad guys! it's weird to reconcile with the fact that 'being evil' isn't afaik the usual appeal of pirates
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the tricky thing about pirates is that when you get down to it it’s really hard to get around the fact that they are, like, actual bad guys
#if you take the 'violently attacking other ships for their cargo and raiding port towns' out of pirates you literally no longer have pirates#Golden Age Pirates are very romanticized and beloved (I am not excluding myself!)#but if you're gonna try to frame them as good guys you're almost explicitly backed into the corner of#'they're fighting other pirates but those pirates are mean' or 'they're fighting the navy'#or you just kinda don't examine them too closely at all which happens a lot with pirates that aren't at the center of the story lol#like! even in most of the most famous pirate fiction the pirates ARE the bad guys!#WHICH LIKE... isn't even necessarily a bad thing or a hurdle per se in traditional narrative settings#I was just thinking about this re: gnome pirates oneshot/ possibly miniseries gfdhjkdgfhd#like... it's not an Evil Campaign I think we're all sort of playing it in the same you know romanticized pirate spirit#but that does make it a little awkward thinking about possible future ventures lmao#'you outran some pirate bounty hunters and explored a ghost ship!' oh cool! what else do pirates do :)#it's not really like thieves where you can do like... 'oh a sexy museum heist that feels impersonal' or 'I only steal from rich bastards'#with pirates it really feels like. they're gonna be attacking and sinking ships to steal all their shit. like that's the whole thing lmao#don't get me wrong Indigo is chaotic neutral I know perfectly well how they got here and where their morals lie#it's just sort of a... you know... how many Fun Wacky Gnomish Adventures :) can we actually do while avoiding doing actual piracy lol#like I'm not against a 'this one shot is about raiding a merchant ship' it just feels like something people usually avoid w pirate protags#we're bad guys! we're textually bad guys! it's weird to reconcile with the fact that 'being evil' isn't afaik the usual appeal of pirates
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