Re: [WW] Re: Multiple Characters

["rook111" <rook111@pernet.net>]

AEG will be putting out a Swashbuckler D20 book either this month or June.
This source book is an adaptation of 7th Sea to d20. Even if you don't like
the world it should have  a lot of good useful rules and stuff.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Robert Blair" <pellinoire@yahoo.com>
To: <weirdwars@gamerz.net>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 4:21 AM
Subject: [WW] Re: Multiple Characters


> It is through dialectic that the perfect game system
> will arise!
>
> I have a scenario idea that I have been playing with
> since Lace & Steel about ten years ago [1] and at the
> moment I am thinking of running it with BRP/CoC set
> during the Napoleonic Wars. I should perhaps try it
> with D20/Weirdwars instead [2].
>
> The players take the parts of crew on a warship sent
> on a special mission with sealed orders, the original
> idea was inspired by a Hornblower story - the one most
> recently televised.
>
> What makes it relaxant is the idea that the PCs have
> more than one character. While their main characters
> are the lieutenants and marine officers they will have
> other characters who may just be ordinary seamen or
> marines. The idea is that on something like a cutting
> out expedition or a shore party where only one or two
> lieutenants are along the other players can run a
> secondary character.
>
> This avoids the Star Trek problem of the whole command
> crew going along with the shore party.
>
> This is something I would do with any setting that
> required a large group - including weirdwars.
>
> Michael
>
>
> Notes
> 1. Strangely enough I could accept Lace & Steel's
> fantasy Europe when the one with 7th Sea annoyed me
> immensely - and was quickly abandoned in favour of
> real + fantasy history.
>
> 2. There is at least one D20 pirate game out and
> another, eagerly awaited, in the pipeline. I have one
> ordered but even without it I reckon I know the period
> well enough to easily run it. All I need are a few
> stats: cutlass, tomahawk, knife, sword, half-pike,
> pistol, musket, blunderbuss, volley gun and various
> cannons. These I already have in the various D20 books
> or I can easily extrapolate them.
>
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