The Harpoon Happy Whalers of Scaret aka All About Sea Ports by John Josten is a role playing game supplement published by Board Enterprises. This is a generic supplement and is part of the Small Bites series. This particular supplement is the “World Walker” edition, which is about half the size of the full supplement that is available to Patreon supporters.
This is a fifteen page PDF which is available for free from RPGNow. One page is the front cover.
There is a brief Introduction to the series in general and this supplement in particular, along with a Table of Contents.
Next are a number of entries taken from the Fletnern Wiki. This is a collection of articles on legends, cities, regions, groups and sites that are connected to the sea, sea travel and ports.
The Sounding Board is a collection of blog posts.
Followers of the Faith considers how a single deity may actually have several different religions, something that is more common in real life than FRPGs.
Mermen and other aquatic races considers how underwater civilisations would develop technology when they have no access to fire (being, well, underwater).
Looting the Populace considers just what items the poorest people in society would have, and has a religion provide some essentials for them
Campaign Homebase – Sea Port considers the advantages that a campaign based out of a port would have (although not the disadvantage; it’s a port and players could easily leave the regions that the GM has developed).
Mutant Animals considers populating areas with regular animals that have slightly different appearances and abilities to the norm.
The Original Cartels – Whaling Vessels considers the payment structure for crew on whaling ships.
Lifestyles of the Magical and Mundane covers sea travel and Whaling in Fletnern.
News of Fletnern has The Birth of Scaret, how the whaling city-state (which is said to be Irish in feel) came to be.
The Good Life has an overview of Scaret plus Scurvy gives a number of ways by which sailors avoid this.
Finally, What’s Missing gives a list of the articles that are only in the full version and there are links to various sites connected to the publisher.
The PDF has bookmarks, but they only cover the major sections not the minor ones. The Table of Contents is to a similar level of depth. Navigation could be better. The text maintains a two column format and a few minor errors were noticed. There are a number of stock black and white images related to sailing and the sea.
As always, this is a collection of posts and articles that are, at times fairly loosely, connected, rather than a coherent whole. In this case, the connection is the sea, and most of the content is to do with that, and with sea ports and Scaret.
Some of the articles go fairly in depth into the logic behind certain things, and there is more content based on Fletnern. The Harpoon Happy Whalers of Scaret aka All About Sea Ports can be downloaded for free by clicking here.
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