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Tips for starting a sailing adventure 2017-07-03 02:49:21 Post No. 54133742
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Just about to start a new campaign with 3 friends.
>General premise is that they're pirates, going on a nautical adventure to different islands following a treasure map toward the biggest pirate treasure in the world
>Gave them 2 NPCs each that can specialize in any art or act as a level 1 character to act as the crew/support.
>They ended up picking 2 fishermen, 1 cook, 1 cleric, 1 rogue
What are some ideas I can add in? Stops along the way? Conflicts at or between each major point? Supplies and additions to the ship?
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You can use 1 page towns or 1 page dungeons for islands (maybe search one of each and make an island by fusing both together). Maybe I would start all sessions with an adventure on the open sea, with a random event (from storms and monsters to friendly merchants, getting lost or just cool weather); that can influence the condition in which they land into this session island. Then, develop as usual.
That said, I like the party you've formed. Give them competitors for the treasure or some kind of recurring enemies, just in case the overarching plot gets stale.
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The ocean can be a pretty boring place that only serves to get you to the interesting islands if you're not clever about how you use it.
If your setting is high fantasy, have the boat run into sea spirits, or mermaids, or sea monsters, or enemy pirates with crazy weird ships. If you're going lower fantasy, make sure to play around with weather, the environment, ect.
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