One of my favourite anecdotes about the first Golden Age of Piracy is that, at one point, Captain Henry Morgan left England in one ship, and arrived in the Caribbean commanding a completely different ship, and nobody knows why. What happened to the first ship and how he acquired the second one are entirely unrecorded.
At some point in his short career (1715 until 1718), the English pirate Ben Hornigold attacked a sloop near Honduras just to steal all the hats of the crew, because his own crew had gotten drunk the night before and they had tossed every single one of their own hats overboard.
Bartholomew Roberts, arguably the most successful pirate in history by ships captured (a whopping 470 in 3 years), didn’t actually want to be a pirate. His ship was captured and he was forced to join the pirate crew.
It’s ape fucking wild to me how many RedLetterMedia gifs/images have prominence on tumblr, and yet it’s so clear by the numbers of blogs and on posts that not many people actually watch the videos.
Like… so many of you people don’t realize that this kid
[SSR] The Fucker That Mocks Other Weebs And Believes He’s Superior Because He Likes Samurai Champloo.
[SR] The Guy That Posts Screenshots Of Every Single Frame Of An Anime.
[SR] Tumblr User That Draws ‘Fixes Designs’, Redrawing All Female Characters Covered In Clothes From Tip To Toe. Skin Is A Sin. [LIMITED]
[SSR] The Shithead That Complains About Modern Anime Not Looking Like Old Anime And Uses Kimagure Orange Road Screenies To Show What Anime Should Look Like [LIMITED]
illiterate dairy maid in 1750, hundreds of years before germ theory was even thought of: because of my exposure to cowpox, im immune to smallpox. if we expose people to cowpox, they won’t die of smallpox
upper middle class college educated mother with internet living in the year of our lord 2018: vaccines are the devils handiwork and a conspiracy i’d rather my child die of polio than be the autism
let your players make up the magic system as they go along, doing whatever overpowered bullshit they want as long as they give a brief in-universe explanation of why they can do that (e.g. “actually i’m immune to fire magic because i’m wearing red”).
keep track of everything they do. then use the magic system they created against them, turning every deus ex machina they ever gave themselves into a diabolus ex machina (e.g. “you notice that the giant plant monster has a red ribbon tied around its trunk, making it immune to fire magic”).
