All your gift are belong to us. Happy holidays, y'scurvy dawgs.

A lesson from the master.

Standing in for NC Wyeth this week is Howard Pyle, the dean of pirate painters, with a marooned swab contemplating his fate.

It's a good weekend for pirate movies. Saturday, 22 June, TCM airs Blackbeard the Pirate , with Robert Newton and Linda Darnell . I like...

Getting ready for game-day tomorrow, as Riordan O'Neill and Guillaume Sébastien continue their journey home to Paris from Turin, their e...

Let me make something clear right now - I suck at writing reviews. If you're looking for a discussion of the writers' and artist...

Happy New Year, everyone.

Update (31/12/12 1143): Well, curse those rotters at Disney for yanking another video . . .

Make merry, ye swabs.

Flashing Blades ' maritime supplement, High Seas , introduces rules for creating characters such as pirates and sailors and their career...

It's Book Faire week at my kids' school, and I met my son's class this morning to check out the selection with him - and to keep...

"Flint was cap'n; I was quartermaster, along of my timber leg. The same broadside I lost my leg, old Pew lost his deadlights. It wa...

T'morrow vve celebrayte thayt Moft Ancient and Revyr'd reval, Talke Lyke a Pyrate Day , butt todaye lett uf tayke a mom. too con...

My Mediterranean-flavored derivation of the High Seas random maritime encounters table for Flashing Blades uses the phrase "nearest ...

High Seas , the piracy supplement to Flashing Blades , includes a random encounter table most applicable to the waters of the West Indies an...

Sorry, guys, but this just ain't happenin' in our campaign , so don't ask.