Amiri & Friends #33 - When Life Gives You Cannons...
Artist: @sheastandefer
...make Cannonade! Among the new features in the Skull & Shackles adventure path are ship combat and ship-related hazards. Failure at these tasks results in Structural damage to our ship, which can be negated by the party collectively discarding cards equal to the damage or your ship is wrecked (spoiler alert: bad things happen when your ship is wrecked). This damage can’t be negated or reduced the way armor and other cards can reduce other damage, which makes the rare card that DOES reduce structural damage VERY useful.
Oloch picked up a loot we earned a while back called the Buccaneer’s Breastplate, and it reduces Structural damage by 1. Since then, he’s been saving our ship left and right, which mechanically is awesome, but thematically is somewhat ponderous. Is he diving in front of the ship every time we get shot by a cannon? Do we tie him to a buoy so we can reel him back in after? In any case, it make for a hilarious mental (and now actual) image.
