Anyone else think the Legend of the 5 Rings entry is a little hostile here?
The Master
"If you want pirates, you need either virtually no state at all, or fairly weak states. "
Since when? What you really mostly need is a high ratio of sea to land that is hard to police, such as the Mediterranean or a colonial empire. Neither the Roman nor the British Empires could stop their piracy, although they made a good effort and many (most?) pirates eventually came to bad ends. Most pirate tropes came from the age of exploration, which I would hardly call "weak or nonexistant states". Even today the international community has trouble with pirates.
Mastermind Rational
Excuse me, I just don't get it. What is this about? The first paragraph is supposed to give a general definition, but here it just claims that the described something is interesting in subtle ways... o__O
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OK, I seem to have figured it out. Wrote a Laconic entry, please check if it's correct...
Yup, that's mostly right. Although it also applies to any setting tweak that's designed to cause more adventure.
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Anyone else feel like Dragon Ball should be on here?