Saturday 25 September 2010

18th century Roleplaying..

I've really been out of role playing since my uni days of the early 80's. I have been wondering of late about some solo role playing in Tradgardland in the mid 18th century. Any suggestions for systems- I don't know where to begin these days...

6 comments:

  1. Alan
    Have a look at Mythic for the 'solo' element. Used by Steve the O.D. on his blog http://mynewstoryboard.blogspot.com/

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  2. Alan,

    You don't really NEED a system to role-play, just "kriegspiel" it . . . that being said, the Mythic Game Master Emulator is a reasonable alternative:

    http://www.mythic.wordpr.com/page9/page9.html

    By the way, I believe that Steve has closed that particular blog.


    -- Jeff

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  3. When I 'mastered' a RPG campaign set in a 'quasi-3 musketeers' mid-18th C. France, we simply used the old D&D rules, with some imput from 'cloak & rapier' (forget the name) and 'pirates' rules to proportionate the ranges and damages of gunpowder weapons with those of cold steel ones.

    I read favorable comments about the 'Gloire' rules.

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  4. Depending on how much roleplaying vs. tabletop skirmishing you want to do...
    Gloire (and supplements) might be good for tabletop games. They seem a little light on the traditional rpg stuff.
    Mythic is great for adding uncertainty into solo games. I really like it, but not everyone does. Still, worth looking into.
    I don't know much about other systems, so I don't know if there are any 18th century specific rpgs. Maybe there is a GURPs supplement for background? Or some sort of pirate or werewolves/vampires rpg of the appropriate technology level that you can readily adapt?

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  5. There's a whole RPGing community out there waiting to help you. I've recently rediscovered my D&D roots (which lead me to wargaming), and now play OD&D (that's Old School Dungeons and Dragons) with my friends and all our kids. It's been great fun.
    -J

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  6. I think the old En Garde set can be had yet.

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