A not-so-brief introduction: years ago, we took part in a pirate-themed role-playing campaign set in the Caribbean which, by an incredible series of coincidences, had a premise similar to Windrose: Blackbeard wants to rule the seas, finds a magical artefact, summons the undead, and so on and so forth.
The only difference was that ‘the artefact' in question was a French orphan girl.
Our crew rescued her and, as we were a bunch of scoundrels with hearts of gold, we decided to protect her from Blackbeard’s clutches, the British Navy and an even greater evil, all the while trying (and failing) to get rich in the process.
Years later, we found ourselves on Windrose and decided to set up a server where we could play our old characters and rebuild the fictional island of ‘Île d’Or’, which served as a base for our ships.
It’s still a work in progress, but over the last ten days we’ve been hard at work and are slowly bringing our imagination to life. There’s the little village of Port-Miséricorde, the governor’s mansion, and the fort by the sea.
All this to say that we’re having fun sailing the seven seas just as we did 10 years ago, and I don’t think I’ll ever stop thanking the Windrose developers for this.