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Message: <blockquote data-quote="STARP_JVP" data-source="post: 2245873" data-attributes="member: 31580">Advice? My only advice is to not to what I did.  My seafaring campaign crashed and burned just recently. Half the players quit, and they were the ones the campaign couldn't live without. This was in itself a mistake but it wasn't my big one. My advice to you, sir or madam, is as follows: The PCs MUST, MUST, MUST have control. They must be the ones who control the campaign. This is true in all campaigns but it's especially true in seafaring ones. Why? Because if the PCs have a ship they have total freedom to do whatever they want. On land they have national laws, roads, borders, and so forth to curb their freedom. Not so at sea.  In a seafaring campaign there will be a great temptation to decide where the PCs go and what they do. With me it turned into what my players described as a 'rail-road fest'. If PCs have total freedom their expectation will be to exercise it, and it is absolutely vital they are able to do this. That's what I think, anyway.</blockquote>