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Post by atomicfloozy on Sept 9, 2019 0:34:39 GMT
Well, almost, he severely wounded him in a duel - but don't worry, I've given the nurse some "medicine", which will see the deed done. Who am I? Well, I'm the Dark Lady who appears in so many of Will's sonnets. It all started at the Mermaid Tavern....
I had the great fortune to play THW's By Savvy & Steel in a game session titled "Death to the Upstart Crow." The game master was Mike Miller - talk about award winning game master - anyway this game is set in the infamous Mermaid Tavern a few blocks away from the Globe on the wrong side of the river & in the bad part of London Town. Player characters consisted of Edward "Ed" Alleyn, Ben Jonson, Christopher "Kit" Marlowe, the "Dark Lady of the Sonnets", the "Lovely Boy" (a young boy who played women's parts in the plays) and William Shakespeare. About the only scoundrel of the theater not in the game was Richard Burbage.
There were a few notable fictional player characters - Lord Ire, the Dark Lady's husband & a minor nobleman, one Sir Edmumnd Blackadder accompanied by his servant Baldric & his strangely feminine friend "Bob."
The game had assassins, tarts, Papist agents and intrigue - One of my goals was to recover my love letters from Will, but I found incriminating evidence that Kit Marlowe was a Papist instead. Two of my sub-goals were to seduce Ed Alleyn & to take the Lovely Boys virginity. Another of my major goals was to get someone to kill my husband, but that goal was accomplished with little effort - the jealous lout attacked Will in the hallway outside of the tavern's bedrooms. Oh, & I persuaded Blackadder to hand over the stolen sonnets with the tip of my blade.
I've never played By Savvy & Steel before, I've always thought of it as being Three Musketeers - but Mike opened my eyes to the story material in Elizabethan England & especially Shakespeare's plays. This game was every bit as good as the "Tarzan & Queen La of Opar game he ran a few years ago and the "John Carter on Mars" games. If you're going to Millenium Con this year, maybe Mike will run this game there.
I don't have any pictures, because I was too caught up in the game. Oh, and instead of a battle board, Mike had this huge multi-story MDF model of the Mermaid Tavern - the entire game took place in the tavern - I guess you could call it a Chillin' Encounter on steroids.
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Post by Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy on Sept 9, 2019 2:20:43 GMT
Mike always runs great games.
Dallas? Hmm, maybe I'll run a THW Convention in...wait for it...Vegas.
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Post by Kurt on Sept 9, 2019 7:27:19 GMT
I've used to use Savvy and Steal for the town encounters when I playing Warrior Heroes Legends.
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Post by Shon Maxx on Sept 9, 2019 14:43:14 GMT
Wow, I also thought it was only for 3 Musketeers game. Being able to use it for games in Elizabethan (Did I even come close to spelling that right?) games could create a lot of options. Maybe a Sherlock Holmes or Jack the Ripper game. Mix it with monsters and Dracula or Frankenstein's Monster could make an appearance.
Now I just have to find the rules in my files.
Thanks for the idea and inspiration.
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Post by twogunbob on Sept 9, 2019 16:36:25 GMT
Mike was in and out of the convention so fast you could hardly blink! Was I setting up my ACW game while that was going on? I know you told me the aftermath but Mike was loading and out of there! Seriously, Mike always runs games that are fun, exciting, and creative and is always way too modest when you try to compliment him on his hard work.
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Post by Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy on Sept 9, 2019 17:30:12 GMT
Mike was in and out of the convention so fast you could hardly blink! Was I setting up my ACW game while that was going on? I know you told me the aftermath but Mike was loading and out of there! Seriously, Mike always runs games that are fun, exciting, and creative and is always way too modest when you try to compliment him on his hard work. Indeed, so true.
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Post by flashcove1 on Sept 10, 2019 13:20:49 GMT
I'll be at MillineumCon, and will look out for that game!!
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Post by bigwalleye on Sept 10, 2019 14:41:35 GMT
Well, almost, he severely wounded him in a duel - but don't worry, I've given the nurse some "medicine", which will see the deed done. Who am I? Well, I'm the Dark Lady who appears in so many of Will's sonnets. It all started at the Mermaid Tavern.... I had the great fortune to play THW's By Savvy & Steel in a game session titled "Death to the Upstart Crow." The game master was Mike Miller - talk about award winning game master - anyway this game is set in the infamous Mermaid Tavern a few blocks away from the Globe on the wrong side of the river & in the bad part of London Town. Player characters consisted of Edward "Ed" Alleyn, Ben Jonson, Christopher "Kit" Marlowe, the "Dark Lady of the Sonnets", the "Lovely Boy" (a young boy who played women's parts in the plays) and William Shakespeare. About the only scoundrel of the theater not in the game was Richard Burbage. There were a few notable fictional player characters - Lord Ire, the Dark Lady's husband & a minor nobleman, one Sir Edmumnd Blackadder accompanied by his servant Baldric & his strangely feminine friend "Bob." The game had assassins, tarts, Papist agents and intrigue - One of my goals was to recover my love letters from Will, but I found incriminating evidence that Kit Marlowe was a Papist instead. Two of my sub-goals were to seduce Ed Alleyn & to take the Lovely Boys virginity. Another of my major goals was to get someone to kill my husband, but that goal was accomplished with little effort - the jealous lout attacked Will in the hallway outside of the tavern's bedrooms. Oh, & I persuaded Blackadder to hand over the stolen sonnets with the tip of my blade. I've never played By Savvy & Steel before, I've always thought of it as being Three Musketeers - but Mike opened my eyes to the story material in Elizabethan England & especially Shakespeare's plays. This game was every bit as good as the "Tarzan & Queen La of Opar game he ran a few years ago and the "John Carter on Mars" games. If you're going to Millenium Con this year, maybe Mike will run this game there. I don't have any pictures, because I was too caught up in the game. Oh, and instead of a battle board, Mike had this huge multi-story MDF model of the Mermaid Tavern - the entire game took place in the tavern - I guess you could call it a Chillin' Encounter on steroids. AF, this sounds like an amazing session. To get an idea of how a master like Mike does it, could you tell me which of your goals were given by Mike and which you created for the character?
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Post by atomicfloozy on Sept 10, 2019 15:10:42 GMT
Each character had a character sheet with stats & goals - the goals were broken into primary goals & secondary goals. For instance, the Dark Lady's primary goals were to recover her love letters to Will & have someone kill her husband. Her secondary goals were to seduce Ed Alleyn & the Lovely Boy.
In game play, the Dark Lady found documents incriminating Kit Marlowe by searching the bedroom after Ed Alleyn had fallen asleep & she recovered Will's stolen sonnets in exchange for sparing Blackader's life. Finding the stolen sonnets was one of Shakespeare's major goals and I believe finding the incriminating evidence were goals for Marlowe & Black Adder. My jealous husband had hired assassins to kill Shakespeare as the primary goal & aa many of the other actors as possible.
Two of the "working" girls had been hired to lure the actors upstairs where the assassins were waiting - tasks which were easily accomplished, if I may say so.
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Post by Shon Maxx on Sept 10, 2019 18:14:36 GMT
I just realized I lost in when my comp crashed for the second time in 5 or so years. I thought I had backed it up, but I think I copied over the flash card with something else, and it's not on the main site. Where is it also sold? I did find NMR which could also add some options.
Another Q. The games I'm looking into running (Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper, etc.) take place in the Victorian era. Is there much difference between the two eras in the game? Thanks.
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Post by bigwalleye on Sept 10, 2019 18:59:21 GMT
Each character had a character sheet with stats & goals - the goals were broken into primary goals & secondary goals. For instance, the Dark Lady's primary goals were to recover her love letters to Will & have someone kill her husband. Her secondary goals were to seduce Ed Alleyn & the Lovely Boy. In game play, the Dark Lady found documents incriminating Kit Marlowe by searching the bedroom after Ed Alleyn had fallen asleep & she recovered Will's stolen sonnets in exchange for sparing Blackader's life. Finding the stolen sonnets was one of Shakespeare's major goals and I believe finding the incriminating evidence were goals for Marlowe & Black Adder. My jealous husband had hired assassins to kill Shakespeare as the primary goal & aa many of the other actors as possible. Two of the "working" girls had been hired to lure the actors upstairs where the assassins were waiting - tasks which were easily accomplished, if I may say so. So all of the goals were from Mike's scenario. Interesting - set it up and watch all the cats go running. Sounds like it worked to generate a fun story. Thanks for the inimitable AF AAR!
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Post by atomicfloozy on Sept 10, 2019 20:31:36 GMT
Some of the others could probably answer the question as to whether or not the game can be used for the Victorian era better than I. A good portion of the rules center around swordplay & I'm not certain as to how common it was for gentlemen to carry swords in the later half of the 19th century. But a lot of the encounters would fit - robbery, carousing, dueling, rescues, mistresses, bawdy houses, jealous men, estranged husbands, & the watch (police in the 19th century)
The other option would be to use Larger Than Life & work back to the 19th century. Again, I think that someone with a better knowledge of Sherlock Holmes could answer this question better than I.
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Post by bigwalleye on Sept 11, 2019 14:24:23 GMT
AF, did Mike's game use the full S&S dueling rules?
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Post by atomicfloozy on Sept 11, 2019 14:37:40 GMT
I think so, I know we used the En Garde Table & the Dueling Table, other than that, I just rolled dice when told to do so. I'm not all that familiar with the rules. I have them, but hadn't ever played them until now.
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Post by bigwalleye on Sept 11, 2019 15:01:56 GMT
I think so, I know we used the En Garde Table & the Dueling Table, other than that, I just rolled dice when told to do so. I'm not all that familiar with the rules. I have them, but hadn't ever played them until now. Yup. Them're it. Obviously didn't affect the flow of the game.
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