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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9030859" data-attributes="member: 6779196">I mean, D&D characters are usually the protagonists, which in pirate media usually means they’re the “good pirates” - the Robbins Hood of the high seas, with the Royal Navy as the corrupt Sheriffs of Nottingham and the “evil pirates” who may or may not be undead as an additional antagonist. It’s certainly possible that they did mean they wanted to play an “evil campaign” where they raid and pillage innocent traders, but if Pirates of the Caribbean was the one example they gave you of what they were looking for, I think that’s unlikely. You should ask them though, I’m only guessing.Ok, well your players seem to want a cool secret agent or pirate game, so chances are someone is going to be having a bad time unless a compromise can be reached.Do you know they don’t have that drive because you’ve actually asked them if they would be interested in such a game and they told you no? If so, you already know they don’t want to play in that kind of game, so unless you’re willing to run a different kind of game for them, you and they will probably both be better off looking for other people to play with who’s interests are better aligned with each others’. If not, you should ask them. Maybe they’ll surprise you, and if not, at least you’ll know.Is this the part where you start calling them clueless or liars? You seem to be the only one who’s confused about what “pirate game” typically means to people.Yeah, check it out. Though, heads up, there’s a good chance your reaction is going to be “should have been called swashbucklers of dark water.”Ok, well the title is Pirates of the Caribbean,  it’s solidly within the “pirate movie” genre, and it’s the one example your players have given you of what “cool, fun pirate stuff” looks like to them. So, you should probably watch it (again, at least the first three, more if you’re so inclined) if you want to understand where their interests lie. You can grumble about the title all you want, it won’t change the fact that, that’s the kind of thing your players meant when they said “pirate game.”</blockquote>

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