Instead of a pirate attack, in order to get a combat encounter while travelling on a ship in a generic D&D world, one should replace pirates with _____________.
Instead of a pirate attack, in order to get a combat encounter while travelling on a ship in a generic D&D world...
Eli Ross
Jason Johnson
Sexy pirates
Jeremiah Flores
Sea Monsters
Ayden Jones
Kraken pirates
Ian Morris
Vikings, duh.
Lincoln Diaz
Shark people.
A patch of black puddings, bubbling up from the abyssal depths.
A skirmish with a dragon.
Those are a few I've used recently.
Nicholas Turner
A very large and aggressive Sperm Whale.
Carson Thompson
A mutiny
Cameron Kelly
Kuo Toa's are cool because you can have them revere the players if they do fancy shit
Mason Thompson
Sexy elf pirates.
Christian Young
>A patch of black puddings, bubbling up from the abyssal depths.
Holy shit this is genious.
Easton Cox
They were encountered at night, started eating through the hull. PCs had to fight them in the darkened, rapidly-flooding hold in order to get to the breach and seal it. Fun, tense fight, with lots of PC panic as they tried to figure out what the hell was happening and how to survive.
Evan Ramirez
A group of selkies, who have their most charismatic representatives distract the party while their companions break into the ship from below and start looting.
Kayden Price
Winged great white sharks.
Jacob Barnes
Dragonsharks
Squid pirates
Kappas riding dolphins
The spirit of their own ship deciding to fuck their shit up
A living storm
A sea serpent (bonus points for being a classic)
A mermaid civl war. Half of them are half fish people, the other half look ike harpies and constantly bitch and moan about how they were the firstborn. They want the ship's resources to fuel their war efforts and the crew to fuel their stomachs
Ghost jellyfish
Rust Monter: Portuguese Man-O-War Edition
Deep-sea fire ants building their nest in an underwater volcano that's coincidentaly just under the ship's path
Cameron Edwards
Awakened Blue-ringed octopus horde.
Cooper Evans
very strong winds.
when they tack against them, the winds suddenly calm.
actually a pouty young wind elemental tantruming over not being able to push the party's ship where it wanted
Camden White
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Brody Kelly
Mermaid brigands.
They wouldn't be pirates unless the piloted a ship full of seawater onto the land.
Evan Gutierrez
I thpight he was looking for an encounter, not a TPK campaign
Logan Mitchell
How does the gun work?
Ryan Jackson
A magic whirlpool that takes you to an interesting setting, as opposed to the generic fantasy Tolkienesque shit that is most DnD settings.