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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6484207" data-attributes="member: 82106">Come up with a series of incidents that can come up (not all of them will if the PCs are successful enough of course). First of all they need to use Nature to sense the oncoming storm in enough time to try to steer clear of its black heart. If they succeed then they've basically just got their first success without any additional complication, if they partly succeed then maybe they missed part of the storm but steered into some waters that are dangerous for another reason (reefs, etc). If they fail, well, then they just get the reefs...Beyond that you can present a dynamically changing situation. The rigging is damaged, then the main mast breaks, then they ship too much water, then the ship goes down by the head from all the water, the boats break free, the ship capsizes, etc. Successes mitigate each thing and avoid the more serious complication that makes stuff worse, but basically another similar crisis will arise very soon, just they've survived that many more hours of storm. So, that's how to do it. Maybe some of the challenges are leadership challenges, will the crew obey or will they decide the PCs are the problem and want to cast them overboard? Its possible the ship could survive WITHOUT the party, and the PCs end up in boats. The reunion from that could be awkward...</blockquote>