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High Seas (Flashing Blades)
''High Seas'' is a 1985 role-playing game supplement published by Fantasy Games Unlimited for '' Flashing Blades''. Contents ''High Seas'' is a supplement in which New World and maritime adventures are allowed. It introduces six New World character backgrounds (rogue, gentleman, soldier, marine, sailor, pirate) with new skills and mechanics. Rules cover shipboard combat, ranks, piracy, trade, and shipbuilding, including a Ruthlessness rating that affects crew morale and reputation. The supplement also features a mini-campaign with four adventures: "Scavenger's Daughter" (forced into piracy), "Pike's Trove" (treasure hunt), "Guede-Je-Rouge" (voodoo curse), and "Portobelo" (Spanish treasure raid). ''High Seas'' is supplement which provides rules usable with pirate and privateer characters, covering shipbuilding, trade, and naval combat, as well as adventure conditions on the Spanish Main. The supplement includes four short adventure scenarios. Publication history ''High Seas'' was w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy Games Unlimited
Fantasy Games Unlimited (FGU) is a publishing house for tabletop and role-playing games. The company has no in-house design teams and relies on submitted material from outside talent. History Founded in the summer of 1975 in Jericho, New York by Scott Bizar, the company's first publications were the wargames ''Gladiators'' and ''Royal Armies of the Hyborean Age''. Upon the appearance and popularity of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' from TSR, the company turned its attentions to role-playing games, seeking and producing systems from amateurs and freelancers, paying them 10% of the gross receipts. FGU also copyrighted their games in the name of the designer so that the designer would receive any additional royalties for licensed figurines and other uses. Rather than focusing on one line and supporting it with supplements, FGU produced a stream of new games. Because of the disparate authors, the rules systems were incompatible. FGU Incorporated published dozens of role-playing games. Fan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flashing Blades
''Flashing Blades'' is a swashbuckling role-playing game published by Fantasy Games Unlimited (FGU) in 1984 that emulates "The Three Musketeers" in 17th-century France. Description In ''Flashing Blades'', players take on the roles of 17th-century French swashbucklers similar to D'Artagnan. In order to create a character, the player first chooses a character class, either soldier, gentleman, rogue or noble; each class has benefits and drawbacks. Each character also has an Advantage such as Contact in High Places, as well as a Secret such as Compulsive Gambling. The player rounds out the character by assigning skill points. During play, players seek to take actions that will increase their social status while avoiding circumstances that will lower their social status, since social status plays an important part of the game. The boxed set comes with a 48-page book titled "Rogues, Gentlemen, Soldiers and Noblemen" that explains the rules. There is also a 16-page book with three samp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Pettigrew
Mark may refer to: In the Bible * Mark the Evangelist (5–68), traditionally ascribed author of the Gospel of Mark * Gospel of Mark, one of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic gospels Currencies * Mark (currency), a currency or unit of account in many nations * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1928 * Finnish markka (), the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002 * Polish mark (), the currency of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Republic of Poland between 1917 and 1924 German * Deutsche Mark, the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until 2002 * German gold mark, the currency used in the German Empire from 1873 to 1914 * German Papiermark, the German currency from 4 August 1914 * German rentenmark, a currency issued on 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Different Worlds
''Different Worlds'' was an American role-playing games magazine published from 1979 to 1987. Scope ''Different Worlds'' published support articles, scenarios, and variants for various role-playing games including ''Dungeons & Dragons'', ''RuneQuest'', '' Traveller'', '' Call of Cthulhu'', '' Journey to the Center of the Circle'', and others; play techniques and strategies for players and gamemasters of role-playing games; reviews of games and miniatures; and reviews of current books and movies of interest to role-playing gamers. Notably, ''Different Worlds'' also featured early works by artists Steve Oliff, Bill Willingham, and Steve Purcell; ″Sword of Hollywood″, a regular film review column by Larry DiTillio from issue seven onward; the irregular autobiographical/interview feature ″My Life and Roleplaying″; and the industry scuttlebutt column ″A Letter from Gigi″ by the pseudonymous Gigi D'Arn. Different Worlds also published books, including: * Tékumel Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |