''Buccaneer'' is a tabletop

role-playing game A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within ...

published by Adversary Games in 1979.

Description

''Buccaneer'' is a pirate system, with brief early rules for playing pirate characters in the 17th and 18th centuries. The rules cover character types, progression, blade, gun, and cannon combat,

duel A duel is an arranged engagement in combat between two people, with matched weapons, in accordance with agreed-upon Code duello, rules. During the 17th and 18th centuries (and earlier), duels were mostly single combats fought with swords (the r ...

s, boarding actions, and

plunder Looting is the act of stealing, or the taking of goods by force, typically in the midst of a military, political, or other social crisis, such as war, natural disasters (where law and civil enforcement are temporarily ineffective), or rioting. ...

Publication history

''Buccaneer'' was designed by Carl Smith, and published by Adversary Games in 1979 as a digest-sized 16-page book.

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