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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DungeonmasterCal" data-source="post: 2608400" data-attributes="member: 5388">I'd been wanting to run a maritime game for a long, long time.  But I just couldn't seem to find the right "vibe".  I began working up a campaign based on the explorations of Xeng He's fleet, but that sorta fizzled.  Then, I was watching this really awful (IMHO) anime' show called "One Piece", and a tiny bit of it inspired me.  Then, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.'s "Sinbad" came on the next day, and suddenly, I had it.  Take the teeny bit of usefulness I gleaned from "One Piece", move the swashbuckly from European flavor to Persian, and voila!I didn't insist on the PC's all being Arabian or Persian.  I figured being sailors, they could've come from anywhere.  I just wish this one player would STOP naming his characters after comic book writers and artists.  He is utterly incapable of not doing so, it seems.  I'll kill him first.</blockquote>