Pirates!

Okay, this is the mother pirate page, made because i'm uberly into pirates and I want all of us to have a certain base where to go from. Here will be gathered information on pirate-related matters, the pirate wiki role-playing-games (rpg's) and links out to web-pages about pirates and other stuff too.
~[iippo]

---

Pirate pages
Here is links to information about pirates made by hard-working (or bored) people.

Firing a Salute -Cannoney stuff
Terms -Large and confusing list of sailing terms
Ship and pirate terms -More terms
Nautical Glossary -More...
Pirate terms and info -More terms.
Ships -Different types of ships
About ships -More
Sails -Info about sails
Monkey Island fact -Stuff about the LucasArts games
Pirate songs -Erm, pirate songs
PiratesCode -Example of the Code
Punishment -How pirates were punished by law
Pyrate Art Contest -Hosted by [Savien] Open!How to fire a cannon -An excerpt from a book.
The Pirate Guild -Get social with other pirates New!
We all love captain Jack Sparrow -Go and love him now! New!
Yarr! by [Deadlock jester] -Full of piratey ET-agenda! New!
DHLPD -'tis past, but there might be a second edition.

---

Pirate games
The wiki rpg's concerning pirates.
Sea Bandit [Blood Raven]s
Isla Tortuga [Linn Scarlett]'s
doom's ship [Mr. Pan man]'s
Voyage of the Serpant's Tide [Iktomi]'s
PA. Pirates Anonymous I really don't know whose anymore...
True Pirates [thestranger]'s
add more above
Skallawags [xTxRex]'s page
kung fu pirates Err, [Sana]'s?
Pirates of the Carribean
AWLOcean - Part of the alternative wiki league. It's just starting so you can easily come aboard!
Lemirian Pirates Part of the Lemire-roleplays (and the popular If I lived in Lemire. Going through a revamp to be more D&D, so after their change might be a good idea to get involved.

Abandonia.com has some old DOS-games that are free to download. They also supply an emulator of DOS in case your new computer doesn't have it.
Here's a few piratey ones:
http://www.abandonia.com/games/446/1869.htm
http://www.abandonia.com/games/214/HighSeasTrader.htm
http://www.abandonia.com/games/513/UnchartedWaters
http://www.abandonia.com/games/276/UnchartedWaters2-NewHorizons
http://www.abandonia.com/games/134/PiratesGold

www.dexterity.com  There should be a downloadable game called Pirate's Plunder, a strategy game. It's not pretty but it's fun.

---

Pirate/nautical literature and films
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Midshipman Bolitho -books by Alexander Kent (more like sailing than pirates, really)
The Pirate Hunter by Richard Zacks
Under The Black Flag: The Romance and Reality by David Cordingly
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian

---

Pirates of the Caribbean - Curse of the Black Pearl
Pirates of the Caribbean II - Dead Man's Chest New!
Cutthoat Island
The Pirate
Master and Commander New!

---

Internet links to pirates
www.piratesinfo.com New! Page has a couple ads but they don't move and about pirate merchandice.
 --> http://www.piratesinfo.com/detail/detail.php?article_id=46 About parts of the ships.

http://blindkat.hegewisch.net/pirates/weapons.html Most handy thing, about the weaponry pirates used. New!

---

Other

A humorous adventure games by LucasArts the Monkey Island series:
The Secret of Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
Curse of Monkey Island
(and a fourth one)
There is an online comic about MI:1
http://www.worldofmi.com/features/comics/vink/


Theres an anime cartoon about pirates called One Piece currently showing on Toonami.

http://elftown.eu/img/drawing/558_1081699889.jpg
A map of the Caribbean sea.

19th of September is the Talk Like A Pirate Day.

---

Something I missed? Add! Or tell me in a message or comment! ~[iippo]