As Mr. Punch would say, "And that's the way you do it!"
Tight, easily scannable formatting, a little whimsy thrown in at the right places, all bases covered. I'm impressed. I actually love opening this PDF and checking it out.
I started using this immediately and often. Got a big coastal adventure for the party coming up. This filled in all the surface details and starter background I needed to mortar in the bricks of the main plot.
I know I'm getting a little hyperbolic in my praise here, but if I had just 2 more supplements like this my Ocean campaigns would literally be the greatest in the world. This is must have, like a hammer or a screwdriver.
Ship details, weird foes, island settlement basics, quick map generation, underwater ideas, damn there's just so much stuff and its not clouded by filler text. You take what you get and run with it because its readily suggestive.
Like, the flag colors. They can mean anything, but using them made me realize I could just make up a basic freebie skill for the mariner characters based around the flag signals and their symbolism. Good random tables will do that--help you think of stuff and run with it.
For all the worthless junk on this site, stuff like this pays for the slog many times over.
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