Quote from: Dumarest;964935Me too. But don't get your expectations up; I'm not the scholar you are so my setting will probably be more of a melange of popular misconceptions of Renaissance France, like "Best of the Beach Boys" to your "Pet Sounds." But then again Dumas got his chronology wrong all through The Three Musketeers...

Just have your players watch Richard Lester's "Three Musketeers" with Oliver Reed, Michael York, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay, Raquel Welch, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Lee, and Charelton Heston.

Running:

AD&D - Greyhawk. Usually 1/ month for over two years now. Orcus and Demogorgon have both made an appearance.

WFRP 2e- 1/ month. Few sessions in. Group is currently clearing out an old dwarf mine that a bunch of Khorne worshipping goblins are using as a lair. It's a blood bath.

Playing in:

WFRP 2e - Rolled a servant. Going for spy next then assassin.

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;964912I've always thought the whole "interesting maneuvers" thing was bullshit anyway.

With all due respect, no, they aren't, it's just Pathfinder that fails at the execution, IME:).

QuoteI love playing a fighter in OD&D.  Tactics are in the mind, not the rules.

I play a fighter in pretty much all games, but the games where I have actual decent manoeuvres, like DCC/Low Fantasy, Mythras, Spellbound Kingdoms, and even the frigging Exalted 3, totally help with that.

QuoteI don't mind PF as long as I don't have to buy the whore.  And it's silly fun yelling "HASSAN CHOP" every time I roll the dice.

Given the PF SRD and the fact that you aren't running it, you probably wouldn't need to;).

Quote from: Dumarest;964935. . . I'm not the scholar you are so my setting will probably be more of a melange of popular misconceptions of Renaissance France, like "Best of the Beach Boys" to your "Pet Sounds." But then again Dumas got his chronology wrong all through The Three Musketeers...

I took 'historical license' more than a few times - if the 'trope-maker' can do it, then certainly lowly I can as well.

Firefly/ Serenity - I only get to run a hand full of times a year.

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;964956Just have your players watch Richard Lester's "Three Musketeers" with Oliver Reed, Michael York, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay, Raquel Welch, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Lee, and Charelton Heston.

Is that the same as the one with Charlton Heston as Richelieu? Pretty good, though a little heavy on the pratfalls for my taste. I'm also pushing the 1990 Cyrano de Bergerac starring Gerard Depardieu.

Quote from: Black Vulmea;965282I took 'historical license' more than a few times - if the 'trope-maker' can do it, then certainly lowly I can as well.

Yes, my defense* will be "Dumas got it wrong too, so too bad." Besides, as soon as play begins we are in alternate-universe 17th Century France. So there.

*To be fair, my players never try to throw facts in my face anyway.

Quote from: Dumarest;965315Besides, as soon as play begins we are in alternate-universe 17th Century France. So there.

This is particularly relevant in Flashing Blades where the career system allows you to become Richelieu, Turenne, Fouquet, et al. Part of my campaign planning is preparing to deviate from the historical timeline once the adventurers grab hold of the levers of power.

Quote from: Black Vulmea;965320This is particularly relevant in Flashing Blades where the career system allows you to become Richelieu, Turenne, Fouquet, et al. Part of my campaign planning is preparing to deviate from the historical timeline once the adventurers grab hold of the levers of power.

There are also those anachronistic clubs right there in the rulebook. Have any of your PCs risen to such heights? I have a mixed bag of players, some I've known a while and some newcomers, but the ones I am familiar with are usually undone by their own ambitions. Which, frankly, is hilarious at the table and even funnier in retrospect. Now and then I love to dredge up memories of their "cunning plans" (as Baldrick might say).

Quote from: Dumarest;965314Is that the same as the one with Charlton Heston as Richelieu? Pretty good, though a little heavy on the pratfalls for my taste. I'm also pushing the 1990 Cyrano de Bergerac starring Gerard Depardieu.

Dot's der bunny.  More comic than Dumas, yes, but the attitude of the protagonists is very accurate.

So we're supposedly on for Saturday. I'll try to post whatever happens. I may just use the scenarios in the back of the book* to start.

*The current edition of Flashing Blades is all in one volume. I have the boxed set but prefer not to sully it at the table since it's hard to find another. The contents are exactly the same; it's only the packaging that is different.

Is there a subforum where I would post about the adventures of Chappuzeau, d'Aubignac, Louvigny, and d'Espagnet?

Quote from: Dumarest;966512Is there a subforum where I would post about the adventures of Chappuzeau, d'Aubignac, Louvigny, and d'Espagnet?

I'd advise you to make a blog.

I have a few books by Dumas but have yet to read them. I doubt they're very faithful but the 1935 version of the Three Muskateers and 34' Count of Monte Cristo are pretty much note perfect for dashing adventure and sword fights, the 41' version of the Corsican Brothers is a bit grimmer and has a terrific lead villian in Akim Tamiroff who nearly steals the picture.

The Man in the Iron Mask from 39' is directed by James Whale, 'nuff said. From the same era the 37' Prince and the Pauper is Twain not Dumas but is very much in the well crafted adventure mode they had nailed through the 30s and much of the 40s. I find by the colour era the films are more hit and miss.

I'm playing in a game of Mage: The Ascension (the 20th anniversary version), where I'm playing a Verbena who has come to New Orleans. His almost idiotic courage has led to him becoming something of a hero to the local Mages, most of whom are Orphans. He's basically a really nice guy...who beheads vampires with sickles and seals his enemies inside standing stones. He figures the scarier he is, the fewer people he'll have to kill. Basically, I asked myself how scary someone who was a real Druid might be if he just showed up in a modern city, and it's turned out fairly interesting.

A few weeks ago, the GM for that game ran a Fomori one-shot, and I played a Fomori with mutations that made him look like a devil. Personality-wise, he was the Robot Devil from Futurama. The other players included a young lady who used the rules to build a Warhammer 40K Space Marine-alike, and a guy with a two-foot-long prehensile monster penis. We got sent on a mission to Surinam to fight werefrogs. A good time was had by all, and somehow we managed to survive. (The human support squad, on the other hand...ouch.)

I'm currently planning a game set in Polynesia, where the players can choose from Menehune, Kahunas (that would be Polynesian Mages), homid-born weresharks, or Mortals with Inspiration points a la Adventure! I'm going to try to keep it from getting too racist. I envision something like a modern-day Moana meets Lilo and Stitch, only with more headhunting, cursed tikis, and shark attacks. This one is ending up needing a lot of research.

I'm also planning a game of Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom, since my GM has all but requested one for his birthday in July. He believes that it is impossible to run KotEK without having it turn into an uncomfortable racist cluster-fuck of guilty white gamers all apologizing to each other, and I'm going to try to prove him wrong. And fail hilariously, perhaps. Should be fun either way. What's the worst that could happen?