>Decide I want to try playing or DMing a naval campaign one day >"In what era should this take place?"
>Pre-modern era >Ships are glorified rafts >The entire crew spends days, if not weeks, on those ships >They have to fucking sleep on the deck or right below it, on the floor >Surrounded by nothing but the endless ocean
>Age of sail >It gets slightly better, captains now have their own private quarters the size of a student's dorm bedroom >Sailors still have to sleep in below deck hammocks >Slaves are packed together like cattle, forced to defecate and piss all over themselves >Journeys can now last weeks or even months
>Modern age >SUBMARINES >FUCKING SUBMARINES >For when being on a ship doesn't make you feel claustrophobic enough
Why is the ocean so horrible? Why would anyone ever opt to leave dry land for longer than a day?
Adam Johnson
To get away from fags like you, OP
Cameron Foster
Savage.
Ayden Gray
>47758493 >Pre-modern era >Ships are glorified rafts
They travelled to North America and back in those. They also colonized all of Southeast Asia and America in them.
>Age of sail >slaves on every ship Are you planning to play Ottomans?
But yeah, the ocean is a harsh mistress. And a Nympho. And always smells like fish.
Gavin Young
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Levi Turner
DAWG, Aim for Victrorian pre-WW1 Steamboats up africa to the interior! Amazon exploration! South China/phillipine/Polynesian shenanigains!
Austin Hughes
the bantz is real
Wyatt Rivera
But the ocean is how you meet fags, not get away from them.
Aaron Williams
>implying it has to be a submarine
I toured an aircraft carrier once. The sleeping quarters are tightly packed as they are in any military base, but the rest of the ship is pretty cozy. For a warship, anyway. It's no luxury cruise liner but it's livable.
Blake Williams
If the idea of a battleship bristling with cannons doesn't give you a boner, then you are either a woman or a very strange man.
Xavier Richardson
Do you know more than 3 things about ships? Are you aware that there is significantly more to the topic of boatery than the three things you know? It's not even that you're wrong, per se. Just that you seem to have some pretty fucking massive blind spots.
Nicholas Cook
Not wanting to play Das Boot.
Fag.
Benjamin Cooper
At the end of the session, ask your players what their characters are planning to spend time doing until they reach the next location.
Lucas Ross
>wants to run something >how no idea what he actually wants to run
Jose Fisher
Ay Dios Mío.
Jonathan Butler
>If the idea of a metaphorical erect phallus doesn't give you a boner...
Pft. I bet you like futa.
Alexander Adams
>if the idea of a battleship makes you think of metaphorical erect phallus...
Eli Garcia
Pft. I bet you think the people that note your open fly are gay, instead of properly thanking them.
Liam Smith
>not setting your campaign during the pre-dreadnought era
shit taste, tbqh
Caleb Flores
Even if they weren't as tough as the dreadnoughts after them, Pre-Dreadnoughts were beautiful ships.
Logan Perry
mah nigga
Kayden Murphy
why would they paint the top half of a new ship the colour of an old abandoned ship?
Jacob Thomas
For OP
I'm too tired to search it up but evidently service on the galley was in the popular consciousness like a concentration camp is in our popular consciousness - the sense of the worst most desperate and miserable circumstance one could find themselves in. For those oar manned galleys slaves or criminals or protestants (if catholic nation) or catholics (If protestant nation) would be used.
Though back in Athenian times the Athenians at least explicitly refused to use slaves for their oarsmen - not really out of any humanitarian reason but rather they felt citizen oarsmen with more experience and motivation in the form of pay were far better an option. It's possible at certain tmes maritime oriented peoples may have favored the same deal.
Navies seem to often be a case of you have it or you don't. Literally but also figuratively, as it takes an earnest and aggressive and highly motivated effort (hi Peter the Great) to take your land-lubbers and turn them into men with hearts ofo ak
Jack Cook
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Evan Collins
>Not having a Fantasy Naval Campaign >Not making it so that Naval Transit is at least interesting and odd creatures are in the ocean or Merfolk popping up to do trade deals mid transit at best or outright raping/eating crew members at worst.
Blake Martin
To just a little but later and you can throw flying boats into the mix.
Wyatt Green
Your failure of knowledge has depressed me, OP. Go charter a sailboat for a week. F you don't fall in love, stay on land.
