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(...) Jim, All I can say is WOW! What a truly amazing ship. Your attention to detail and all the little touches you added are GREAT! Like the chain-guide rails on the step ladder down, and finding a way to attach dingies(sp?) without looking stupid! (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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where would this fall piratefest be? will anyone else be at dragoncon this year? i only got to watch them play last year, and steve jackson is not going to be there this year. Roy (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Arrrrrgh! I had a sinking feeling you'd bow to punnery. (...) Again, I'm not sure what my Fall schedule will be like until after the first of September. best Lindsay (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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I thought I'd re-float the idea of a fall PirateFest, currently I could do the following weekends: September 7 to September 9 September 14 to September 16 September 21 to September 23 September 28 to September 30 October 5 to October 7 November 2 to (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Much cooler. Unfortunately I got rid of most of the skeletons-- they paid for the Oasis Ambushes! :) (...) You know how much that's entered our cultural lexicon? I whispered, while watching "The Mummy Returns" last weekend, during the scene (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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Sheree Rosenkrantz is planning on making sails for sale. I know she will be at Brickfest and some of her sails will be featured in the Pirate Game. Frank (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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Thank you. Martin (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Hi Joel, The black rose on the sails is done with iron on fabric. It's the same stuff you would buy to patch some clothing. It comes in different weights and I use the lighter weight. I made a design on paper, traced it to the fabric, cut it (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Ahhhh, I snagged 25 of the same for the same purpose. Skellies just look cooler with that headdress on. Redshirts? How many besides me actually saw 1st run Star Trek? Old, old, old.... Graybeard (formerly Red(shirt?)beard (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Well not really. As long as I populate the islands, no one else will know... (...) I've got a ton of headdresses also... I've also got a ton of mummies. (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Oh, heavens no. That would be like the scenes from "Mummy" where scarabs overrun various redshirts... (...) They'll have to be identical to keep the mystery contents a mystery! (...) Hmmm...maybe a Shipwreck Island might be good, and for the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Well, you of all people should realize that. We aren't going to run "The Pirate Fleet vs. the Gloire"... (...) Yea, some decent looking 16x16 islands would be cool. (...) I'd like to see a few genericish 32x32 islands. I'd also like to see (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) And of course I've still got your other mortar somewhere around. I need to build some copies, and I need to finalize the rules. (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Please do. I was looking at it last year, but since I had not totally realized it was yours and hadn't had a chance to ask if we could use it, I didn't use it. - NOTE FOR ALL PIRATES ATTENDING BRICKFEST - Please check in with me and indicate (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I asked this of Steve Jackson once, and as a result of his answer, the guidelines I go by when I run the game are: - a ship may always have one swivel mount cannon - only large ships (like class 5 or so or larger) may have more than one swivel (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Tom -- I like your ship - the colors are wonderfully cooridnated. Man, though... If *I* had that many names I'd go by "Cap'n Rose", too. urk.. :) I have a question, though. How'd you do the black rose logo on the sails? Silkscreen or (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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I leave cannons off my ships for the Campaign Game and they have to be bought by the player when they dock at a port. To buy a swivel mount for a cannon costs 'em an extra 50 gold. For a sail'n shoot I'm not too sure - you could add to the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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I have a question for you fellow pirate game players. When building custom ships, do you let everyone just make whatever they want, irregardless of reality? Case in point, my friend likes to put all of his cannons mounted onto those swivel bases. So (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Wait, there's a difference? ;) (...) That sounds like a good idea. I had thought, though, to take the 16x16 island plates, add a few yellow bricks and slopes, a treasure chest (which might have coins, might have scorpions!), and a palm tree or (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) (Clarification: Heck with cannon. Keep ships away very effectively with mortars. ;) ) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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