Oofta
Legend
Putting aside magical protections for rigging an sails, do you really want to set an enemy ship on fire? If you're the pirates there goes your reward. If you're defending you've just made a very desperate enemy who will do anything, including taking you down with them. Besides, most pirates preferred to take captives for ransom, piss them off enough and that's not going to be an option. Better to do a significant amount of damage but let them run away.
Or just do what I do and have magical fire retardant for the sails and rigging.
Or just do what I do and have magical fire retardant for the sails and rigging.