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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Inchoroi" data-source="post: 6514195" data-attributes="member: 6752135">From what I can tell, I'd believe that they're going further toward the former, rather than the world-conquering latter; except for my wife's character, who apparently wants to make a world-destroying superweapon; I've yet to determine if she's serious. Her first thought is to make an island into a giant steampunk spider-tank-thing to destroy everything (don't ask; I have no idea where she got it from; she's already decided the character is chaotic evil--basing the character off of a video of the character Jinx from League of Legends). Cohesive party mechanics shouldn't be much of an issue; the idea is that they would want to be pirates, go to one of the Pirate Kings (there are seven in the world, as far as my notes go so far), and get told to go away until they have their own ship. So, they go steal one, which is where the game would start. Once they get to that point, they can join up with one of the Pirate Kings (haven't described them yet, but want to differentiate them enough that the choices will have consequences) and raid shipping for a ubiquitous "Empire", which would be a mix of the Spanish Inquisition-type  religious insanity and typical 16th-17th century British imperialism, with a sprinkling of "stone the witches and shamans and warlocks and wizards, which actually exist in this world, unto death for messing with unnatural forces".That is a good point about evil vs. evil, too. Rival pirates within the same gang, as well as another Pirate King moving in on your turf, and then the Empire getting angry at how good you are and hunting you down, especially if you've got "evil magic users" amongst you. After that...not sure what they would do. I have an idea about an undead king of a sunken kingdom that they mistakenly awaken at some point raising his undead legions from the bottom of the ocean to lay waste to cities, but that might be too....goody-two-shoes, and also feels like it violates the spirit of a sandbox in being too long an adventure to easily put into the world. I suppose I can also add in various "side-missions" for the Pirate King, kill this person, steal this stuff, make sure this ship doesn't make port, etc. It'll be really odd to not have a set plot.I also get the impression that it's rather chaotic with evil tendencies, although I could be wrong. I will have to poll them tomorrow to see how they feel about it. I would not, however, be surprised if they want to go full-out Dark Lords, which might also be fun, but might not work with the Pirate theme I've got going so far.</blockquote>

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