Saturday, July 18, 2009

Congratulations Basil




A big huzzah to Capt. Basil Drakestongue, the winner of this season's PDXYAR 'Pirates of the Cursed Seas' league. And remember... revenge is a dish best served cold.

-Redgoat

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Week 11: Fleet Selections & Rankings


League Season 2 Finale! 7/16 @ Max's Fanno Creek

After 12 long weeks, we're finally at the finale for Season 2 of the PDXYAR 'Pirates of the Cursed Seas' league! This season has been an epic one, with enough plundering, skullduggery and back-stabbing to last the crew fer at least another month... that is, until the Portland Pirate Festival!

Read on fer all the details and scenario information on the finale. As always, non-League players are welcome to show up and learn to play. We'll have 'Pirates of the Cursed Seas' packs for sale (all proceeds going to the PDXYAR Epic Scale Fleet fund) and there will be plenty of Privateers on-hand to teach ye how to play.

Plan on hanging out after the game ends for our awards ceremony and presentation of the PDXYAR League trophy to this season's overall winner. Plus, there will a bit of business discussed regarding our involvement with this year's Portland Pirate Festival.

Huzzah!

-Redgoat

Scenario: CREW Wins the Game!
Privateer: Redgoat MacHaggis, Capt.
Location: Max's Fanno Creek Brewpub - Tigard, OR
Time: 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM (We will be in the back party room, which is reserved for our group. Come in garb, have dinner and be sure to tip yer waitress! Minors WILL be allowed for the duration!)

Fleet Requirements
Build Total: Bring 20 points constructed but CREW ONLY! (Including your PC.) 30 points. constructed on-site with up to 5 sealed packs ($1/ pack) - All ships will come from sealed packs.
Gold: 8 pieces totaling 40 pts
Islands: 3
Terrain: 3 (No icebergs)

Scenario:
- Setup as normal
- Around-the-World is in play

Other stipulations:
- If you have a required fleet left to play, choose crew from that set / sets or faction for your 20 points. All ships pulled from sealed packs will work with crew from ANY nation.
- Mysterious Islands allowed, but one effect per player per island.
- Normal limit pieces are in play but with LIMIT keyword.

Monday, July 6, 2009

League Week 11 Scenario & a Welcome to New Recruits

Ahoy,

Word of our humble little parcel of rogues has been filtern' out over the past couple of weeks, so now seems like a good time to re-introduce PDXYAR to the masses. To those of you who are visiting PDXYAR for the first time... ahoy! We're happy to have ye as a member of the fleet. If yer lookin' fer more information on who we are, what we do or how you can get involved, glance slightly to starboard for a brief summary. Better yet, sign up for our Yahoo group and join in on the skulduggery and verbal broadsides!

At present, PDXYAR is wrapping up 12-week run of Pirates of the Cursed Seas games. Our next port o' call is listed below, and all are welcome to join. If'n ye have yer on fleet to bring, read on for scenario information. If not, just show up at one of our games and we'll provide ye with enough ships and crew for you to sail the high seas as a proper captain!

Once we wrap up with our current League schedule (mid July), look for PDXYAR to host Epic Scale (them be the big ships) games, Savage Worlds role-playing campaigns and a few other surprises as we ramp up for this year's Portland Pirate Festival.

With that... here be the details on this week's Pirates of the Cursed Seas game. Huzzah!

-Redgoat


Scenario: Fire and Steal
Privateer: Captain Drakestongue
Location: McMenamins Raleigh Hills Pub
Time: 7/10/09 7:00 - 10:00 (Due to restriction on minors, the game needs to be DONE by 10:00 PM. Please arrive early and be ready to play by 7:00 PM!)

Fleet Requirements
Build Total: 40 points
Gold: 8 pieces totaling 25 points (no Unique Treasure allowed)
Islands: 1
Terrain: 5 (no fogbanks or whirlpools allowed)

Scenario:
- Setup proceeds normally with one island and five terrain. Home islands are selected from the islands and play begins.
- All gold (eight coins) start on your ships and CANNOT be unloaded at your (or any other) home island.
- Build your fleet so you can carry ALL coins among your ships as they cannot be unloaded.
- Build your fleet so you can carry more than the gold you start with because GOLD WINS THE GAME!
- Boarding opponents ships and/or stealing gold is the only way to gain more gold.
- Sinking opponents ships removes gold from the game.
- You CAN be shot at your home island. You may still give your ship repair actions while docked at your home island.
- Around-The-World house rule is in play.
- Only gold on ships that you control count towards your game total.

Other stipulations:
- Mysterious Islands allowed, but . . . why?
- NO Events allowed
- NO ten-masted ships allowed.

Thursday, July 2, 2009