GURPS 7th Sea?

Jürgen Hubert · 08-29-2017, 06:39 AM

Apparently not.

Then a different question: What are your experiences with Swashbuckling campaigns - especially ones using the styles from GURPS Martial Arts? How interesting and how much fun are they in practice - especially if you are running a cinematic game?

Refplace · 08-29-2017, 12:34 PM

Not ran a swashbuckiling campaign since Third Edition but it involved a lot of cheesy accents and stupid risk taking.
It was a musketeers campaign.

LoneWolf23k · 08-29-2017, 02:06 PM

I've never tried my hands at it, but you'd get a lot of mileage from GURPS Classic: Swashbucklers, for basic Swashbuckling campaign information that can be applied to a 7th Sea campaign. I'd also look at Pyramid #64, "Pirates and Swashbucklers", for Dungeon Fantasy compatible templates.

Mike_H · 08-29-2017, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by LoneWolf23k

I've never tried my hands at it, but you'd get a lot of mileage from GURPS Classic: Swashbucklers, for basic Swashbuckling campaign information that can be applied to a 7th Sea campaign. I'd also look at Pyramid #64, "Pirates and Swashbucklers", for Dungeon Fantasy compatible templates.

Agreed. The third edition source book is very thorough.

Fred Brackin · 08-29-2017, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Jürgen Hubert

Apparently not.

Then a different question: What are your experiences with Swashbuckling campaigns - especially ones using the styles from GURPS Martial Arts? How interesting and how much fun are they in practice - especially if you are running a cinematic game?

Memory tells me that Bill Stoddard had a campaign involving rival French Fencing salons in the general era. I remember that him talking about it but am not sure it was truly swashbuckling or cinematic.

He probably isn't monitoring this thread due to a lack of 7th Sea involvement. You may need to PM him.

On my own I would mention that the Fencing material in the 3e Swashbucklers is utterly incompatible with 4e rules and that I consider the 4e rules to be generally superior.

trooper6 · 08-29-2017, 09:26 PM

I played in whswhs's fencing campaign. It was very good...it also was not cinematic. Swashbuckling is also one of my goto genres to GM in GURPS (that and Espionage) so I run it quite a lot. I, however, don't tend to go cinematic, rather heightened realism.

If you want cinematicism, I think I'd recommend using those mook rules where any hit on a mook automatically kills them. And I'd make sure the villains are pretty incompetent to make the heroes have that "I am badass feeling." Throw lots of points at them, give them all Weapon Master and turn on all the cinematic switches, make the opposition low skilled, not very tactical, and easily vanquished.

But I never run Swashbucklers that way, so maybe some people who run cinematic more often can chime in.

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08-29-2017, 12:34 PM	#2
Refplace Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Yukon, OK	Re: GURPS 7th Sea? Not ran a swashbuckiling campaign since Third Edition but it involved a lot of cheesy accents and stupid risk taking. It was a musketeers campaign. __________________ My GURPS publications GURPS Powers: Totem and Nature Spirits; GURPS Template Toolkit 4: Spirits; Pyramid articles. Buying them lets us know you want more! My GURPS fan contribution and blog: REFPLace GURPS Landing Page My List of GURPS You Tube videos (plus a few other useful items) My GURPS Wiki entries

08-29-2017, 02:06 PM	#3
LoneWolf23k Join Date: Sep 2004	Re: GURPS 7th Sea? I've never tried my hands at it, but you'd get a lot of mileage from GURPS Classic: Swashbucklers, for basic Swashbuckling campaign information that can be applied to a 7th Sea campaign. I'd also look at Pyramid #64, "Pirates and Swashbucklers", for Dungeon Fantasy compatible templates.

08-29-2017, 09:26 PM	#6
trooper6 Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Medford, MA	Re: GURPS 7th Sea? I played in whswhs's fencing campaign. It was very good...it also was not cinematic. Swashbuckling is also one of my goto genres to GM in GURPS (that and Espionage) so I run it quite a lot. I, however, don't tend to go cinematic, rather heightened realism. If you want cinematicism, I think I'd recommend using those mook rules where any hit on a mook automatically kills them. And I'd make sure the villains are pretty incompetent to make the heroes have that "I am badass feeling." Throw lots of points at them, give them all Weapon Master and turn on all the cinematic switches, make the opposition low skilled, not very tactical, and easily vanquished. But I never run Swashbucklers that way, so maybe some people who run cinematic more often can chime in.