The age-old question: Is it cooler to be a pirate or a ninja?

[Dyne]

Originally Posted by Professor S

Well lets add it up:

Pirate

Pros:
Parrot
Tattoos of loose women you met in Milan and the Barbary Coast
Swords
Cool outfit
Cannons
Gold Doubloons
A Ship to Command
The Open Sea
Fame
A life of self-defined adventure

Cons:
Fake leg, but that could be cool I guess
Scurvy
Long voyages with no females (bad luck)
Mortal peril from Her Majesty's Fleet

I honestly don't think its even close. Pirates rule all.

I agree, and I also have a bit of an eyepatch fetish. Also, in Shogun by James Clavell, Blackthorne was totally a pirate even though he denied it. He became a samurai and evaded ninja attacks!