06-14-2020, 09:28 AM | #1 |
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American Revolution
I am surprised no sourcebook covering the American Revolution was ever produced back in the days of 3rd Ed. So would one use High Tech, Age of Napoleon and maybe Swashbucklers to make a game set in the 1770s ?
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06-14-2020, 09:37 AM | #2 |
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Re: American Revolution
Those, yes, plus Low-Tech—this is sort of the "transitional" period between High and Low Tech.
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06-14-2020, 09:40 AM | #3 | |
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I believe changes were made but the open playtest of that era caused me to believe I ddin't need that book. Swashbucklers is definitely aimed earlier but that doesn't mean you wouldn't find something.
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06-14-2020, 10:42 AM | #4 |
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Re: American Revolution
As one of the playtesters on GURPS: Age of Napoleon I got a clear impression that the author of the book was fairly close to the opinion of his mouthpiece character. His posts seemed to suggest that he saw the "Land Speculation Theory of the Origin of the American Revolution" as correct. This theory was first put to paper by Banastre Tarleton in his history of the American revolution. Even the Soviets gave up on the theory in the 1950s because it was embarrassingly false and wrongheaded.
I think the whole thing left a bad taste in the mouths of the SJGames staff and they decided that both the American Revolution and the American Civil War were too politically troublesome to touch. At least it looked that way to me.
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06-14-2020, 10:54 AM | #5 | |
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Re: American Revolution
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1. The other was WWI.
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06-14-2020, 11:03 AM | #6 |
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Re: American Revolution
As another of the playtesters for Age of Napoleon, I mostly agree with Fred Brackin and Astromancer yet I also remember that the main thrust of the book was far more on the European side of that time frame. (I don't have my copy handy, so I can't check to be sure.)
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06-14-2020, 11:04 AM | #7 | |
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06-14-2020, 11:36 AM | #8 |
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Re: American Revolution
A GURPS Hot Spots: Revolutionary Era Boston, Massachusetts would be a good first book for covering the American Revolution, probably followed closely by GURPS Hot Spots: Revolutionary Era Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I pick Boston as that's where the war started, and Philly because it's where the Continental Congress met prior to the city being taken by the British (the Philly book would also cover nearby Valley Forge).
For the American Civil War, I'd probably go with a trio of Hot Spots books: Gettysburg, PA; Washington, DC; and Atlanta, GA. (I pick Gettysburg because it was the northernmost battle fought; most of the North was spared the horrors of the war.)
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06-14-2020, 11:43 AM | #9 |
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06-14-2020, 11:45 AM | #10 |
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Re: American Revolution
Ah, no. High-Tech starts around 1715 or so. By the time the revolution starts it's been in progress for more than half a century.
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