I'm surprised to not see Seventh Sea in your list - it seems to be very popular. Any particular reason you gave it a pass?

It's fantasy, and I wanted something historical.

7th Sea is awesome, but it's fantasy

Why not adapt D20. I've found that for 90% of games it's an easy to use, user-friendly system.

my dm is running freeport, a pirate setting for D&D/D20 and it's great. i love it.

I've adapted D&D for a pirate game. Here's a tip, use armor from Stormwrack, don't mess with the UA defense bonus rules. :P

i'm not familiar with either. what's the armor from stormwrack like? my pc is a bard. i'm planning on becoming a "Freeport Pirate". it let's you add CHA bonus to AC like a monk with WIS or a duelist with INT.

That's interesting. Most of the PrCs in Stormwrack inists upon light or no armor, but they do offer the buoyant magic quality for armor which makes it much easier to swim, even in full plate. Also pearlsteel, which moves more easily through water.

yeah the freeport pirate PrC only allows light or no armor.

All the best do.

if you like to play that kind of character. i almost always do. lately i've been playing classes i've never played. in almost every game ive ever played no one wanted to be a rogue or a wizard so i always ended up playing a combo rogue/wiz, or just a rogue. i'm playing a bard right now which i never played and i really like it. i think next time i play i'll be a heavily armored big axe wielding fighter. i've never played a brick. or i might try a non-multi-classed wizard. i've been looking at the metamagic feats which i've never used, and i think a character devoted to spellcasting would be cool. i've also never played a cleric but that class doesn't really appeal to me for some reason.

d20 Modern's d20 Past supplement has a real-world pirate setting ready to use actually. Ship rules, and a handy map of the caribbean, color-coded to which country owns it in the 17th century.

That's an idea, but then I'd have to get two books. Plus, I don't care for D20 Modern much.

We'll I find a lot of the material in d20 Past doesn't do a half-bad job of translating directly to D&D.

What aspect of a pirate-themed campaign are you interested in? Brutal ship-to-ship combat? Cinematic swashbuckling? Negotiating privateer contracts with world powers? Parrots?

Different priorities will favor different systems.

Yes. :-) All of the above, actually. The voodoo magic system in S&B kinda turned me off, but I guess it's nice to have it there if you want it. I suppose also they need something to give it a twist.