Anonymous
10/15/2025, 3:17:20 AM
No.96755722
>>96755718
>2/3
>already familiar with the setting
Stop stressing about that, really. Unless you are running the game for people that are obnoxious fans of the books this is adopted from, you can run whatever the fuck, as long as it follows the general theme. In fact, the more vague you are, the more they will fill on their own. Which is probably the only advantage establishing settings have - people are already familiar with more or less what to expect.
>stuff to do in the different ports that will actually tie together that's fucking with me.
Doesn't have to be ports. Shouldn't even be ports.
Do you even sail? Like, actual sail, not "familiar with the concept, because I saw PotC as a kid". Having even basic sailing competence allows to live up this stuff from sheer experience. Ports are boring, and making it a checkpoint map from port to port is going to be boring. You can have sea encounters. You can have weird encounters. You can have random island, deserted or not, encounters. Hell, you can literally have island with ruins to visit and explore, then get tangled into something and quickly leave before the volcano explodes. This isn't rocket science. It's like basic random encounter shit.
Also
>though only second-hand through parodies and references.
The Quixote guy didn't even had that
>2/3
>already familiar with the setting
Stop stressing about that, really. Unless you are running the game for people that are obnoxious fans of the books this is adopted from, you can run whatever the fuck, as long as it follows the general theme. In fact, the more vague you are, the more they will fill on their own. Which is probably the only advantage establishing settings have - people are already familiar with more or less what to expect.
>stuff to do in the different ports that will actually tie together that's fucking with me.
Doesn't have to be ports. Shouldn't even be ports.
Do you even sail? Like, actual sail, not "familiar with the concept, because I saw PotC as a kid". Having even basic sailing competence allows to live up this stuff from sheer experience. Ports are boring, and making it a checkpoint map from port to port is going to be boring. You can have sea encounters. You can have weird encounters. You can have random island, deserted or not, encounters. Hell, you can literally have island with ruins to visit and explore, then get tangled into something and quickly leave before the volcano explodes. This isn't rocket science. It's like basic random encounter shit.
Also
>though only second-hand through parodies and references.
The Quixote guy didn't even had that