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Hi Trevor, Any advice/pointers for an age of sail/pirates game? Season 3 makes it look so effortless! But I’m having a tricky time with the sandbox (ha!) style. Also difficult time hitting all the right notes or deciding what they are. My players naturally gravitate towards being “good” but want to be terrors on the high seas. Advice? Pointers? Resources? I’m a new GM so when you release a Sage’s library or Drinking with GM’s video feels like I’m getting the ancient knowledge. Much love and keep it up!

Sam M

Maybe one of the 5PFH characters (if any survive!) could graduate to a Starforged campaign? :)

Tim Vaughan

Nice! Well I'm in the lucky position of having plenty of MM&D content ahead of me. I'll tell those that I know of a nerdy persuasion about solo RPGs generally and your channel in particular.

Kevin Campion

Welcome Kevin! Shawn just sent me the hard copy of Starforged. We’ll see what the future brings!

Trevor Devall

No necessarily on topic, but have you thought about running a Starforged game? Relatively new viewer (on episode 14 of season 2). I'd love to see your take on "the Forge". I've bought so many RPG books on the back of enjoying your content. Hoping to get my hands on a physical copy of Starforged through modiphius when they drop. Never knew about solo RPGs until I found your channel.

Kevin Campion

I agree with the handwavey part. What really made the game interesting for me and my group though was the way Blades in the Dark handles planning. Way to many games on our table are bugged down by copius amounts of planning. Those plans normally fail quite fast and hours of prep time blow up into nothing. To avoid that we implemented some aspects of their model. However, many of other DMs and players seem to really enjoy the system therfore I am cuirous. Generally handwavey rules seem to be a trend in modern games. There are to many "narrative" systems with only little structure. Systems like Fate or PbtA make it hard to die. I think PCs mortality is very important for a good RPG. That's why I enjoy Harnmaster so much.

I’m not a huge fan of the BitD games. I appreciate what they’re trying to do, but they’re a bit too “handwavey” for my tastes. That said, I’ll probably do a Sage’s Library on Band of Blades, which is one of those games that I had a good experience with.

Trevor Devall

I can only comment here anyway. ^^ Question: I cam into posession of the Blades in the Dark Solo rules and a few gimmicks like Scum & Villany. Have you ever considered using this system for one of your games? Or have you haver played it at all? I can't get my friends to try so maybe I'll see you running it :D

Sales rolled a weak hit then, should've burned momentum 😜

Steven Benham

Great!!

Trevor Devall

Haha. I've described stuff wrong and I made the damn game. Definitely not something to lose sleep over. Great video. Thanks for the Ironsworn shoutout! I think I saw sales perk up a bit.

Shawn Tomkin

Yeah, yeah… 18 episodes I filmed!! Can’t BELIEVE I got that wrong… I’ve been self-flagellating with my metaphorical cat o’nine tails for days over that one ;)

Trevor Devall

Now you've got me wondering how the Ironsworn math would work out for roll-under instead of roll-over.

Shawn Tomkin

8k views - Shows the power of the DnD algorithm! Which throws up a possible channel growing idea? Henry Cavill just announced his Warhammer 40k collab with Amazon. Handled right (a big proviso) this could become a very, very big thing. Huge existing fan base, lots of interested new people = a lot of Youtube searches! Some MM&D content on the Warhammer World might be interesting to see how much traction that can generate in the 2023 algorithm? Hope everyone has a great Christmas - I'm working over most of it but great news - I'll be in a big comfortable office on my own with a HUGE TV screen which will be showing a binge watch of the past three seasons! I just hope the local restaurant delivery guys are up the job in supplying me.

Hah! :D

Trevor Devall

You're going viral! But don't worry, someone who's played RPGs as long as you knows how to deal with trolls.

Michael Nardi

Ye, you responded to my question about Zweihander rpg, didnt expect an answer, but always nice when you have time, so cheers 😁🎅😁

Steven Benham

Keep on trucking Trevor I never expect a response and when I get one im honestly pleasantly surprised. Love the content, do whatever keeps you happy and healthy while growing the channel.

Aaron Quebman

Thanks Jason!

Trevor Devall

Hey Trevor... I, for one, never really expect a response every time that I comment on something. Regardless of who's video it is that I'm commenting on. I have zero issues with you putting your time where you need to! As long as the stories are awesome, I'm not afraid of that yet!, just keep doing what you are doing :) I am here for the ride, enjoying every minute of it too!

Jason Martin