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For what it's worth, the last time I ran Ravenloft as part of Curse of Strahd I played up the unreality of the place and made it more...

The issue is Naval campaign =/= Pirate campaign. You are talking about very different things with very different parameters for success...

Quite. Hope Setting: "We don't need to do anything, the gods will sort it out anyway." Despair Setting: "There is no point in doing...

Sure, lots of SF isn’t speculative, but exists purely to entertain (just like movies in any other genre). I do think there is a lot of...

I tend to find getting into the nitty gritty of genre classification to be non-productive and find it's generally better to have a broad...

I run my campaign worlds like I see the real world: people are complicated, so are their social systems, and sometimes they do bad...

Not my experience.

The main features of a pirate campaign are hunting treasure, defying authorities (especially colonials), mutinous crews, speaking with a...

Sure, but Pirates isn’t about ship-to-ship combat, it’s completely unnecessary to include it, which makes it fine for D&D. Just move...

I’m aware of this. The novel, which I have read, is also a Balance of Terror rip off. It’s as much a Pirate story as Star Trek is. I’ve...

You do realise handwaving is inherently something you do yourself, not with external guidance!

I would point out that Master and Commander has nothing to do with pirates, and is Star Trek (ToS, Balance of Terror) transposed to the...

All RPGs handwave it. There isn't any way to deal with a crew of hundreds that doesn't abstract it in any RPG. Abstraction works just...

Sure, easily. I played a fair bit of Star Trek RPG with a crew of over 400. They are just a stat that occasionally goes down during ship...

Some groups may be happy to have a player be captain. Others might decide to run the ship by committee, or take turns. Rule breaking is...