Vapourware What would you name a 1600's swashbuckling game?

[deuxhero]

"The Science of the Sword", after the early/abridged version of Salvator Fabris's fighting treatise "The Science of Arms" from that period. If you want to look at the biography of genuine swashbucklers from that period, Fabris is a must.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Cutlass? Can have stuff added up front. The Jagged Cutlass, Black Cutlass, Crooked Cutlass, Planetscape Cutlass, the Age of Cutlass
Stand and Deliver, depends on how much it focuses on rogues and highwaymen.

It's probably taken, but I like just "Cutlass"

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

If it's an RPG, it should follow the classic naming convention. Jungles & Journeymen, Ships & Swashbucklers, Prisons & Pirates.

Note that it absolutely must be [P]lacesofsomekind & [P]eopleofsomekind, not just some random two words jumbled together. This is the way.

Brothels & Buccaneers?

One of the AD&D 2nd edition historical reference campaign sourcebooks covered the period 1550-1650, but it was named A Mighty Fortress, which isn't at all appropriate for a swashbuckling game.

There are a few tabletop RPGs with a similar setting: 7th Sea, Savage Worlds of Solomon Kane, Witch Hunter: the Invisible World, LexOccultum, Flashing Blades, Pirates of the Spanish Main, Buccaneer: Through Hell & High Water, 50 Fathoms, Zweihander, Burning Wheel, Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Hexxen 1773, Swashbuckling Adventures, Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies, Honor & Intrigue, All for One: Regime Diabolique, GURPS: Swashbucklers

 

[ERYFKRAD]

If it's an RPG, it should follow the classic naming convention. Jungles & Journeymen, Ships & Swashbucklers, Prisons & Pirates.

Note that it absolutely must be [P]lacesofsomekind & [P]eopleofsomekind, not just some random two words jumbled together. This is the way.

Brothels & Buccaneers?

One of the AD&D 2nd edition historical reference campaign sourcebooks covered the period 1550-1650, but it was named A Mighty Fortress, which isn't at all appropriate for a swashbuckling game.

There are a few tabletop RPGs with a similar setting: 7th Sea, Savage Worlds of Solomon Kane, Witch Hunter: the Invisible World, LexOccultum, Flashing Blades, Pirates of the Spanish Main, Buccaneer: Through Hell & High Water, 50 Fathoms, Zweihander, Burning Wheel, Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Hexxen 1773, Swashbuckling Adventures, Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies, Honor & Intrigue, All for One: Regime Diabolique, GURPS: Swashbucklers

Broadsides and Broadswords.

 

[Lagole Gon]

Buck Swashling: Treasures of the Black Gorge.

 

[Stella Brando]

Wizardry 8: Crossbones of Arnhem

Cut-Price Island

 

[Jason Liang]

7th Sea?

 

[King Crispy]

Sea Dogs II

 

[JamesDixon]

Cannonballs, Cutlasses, and Treasure Chests

 

[hello friend]

Avast! It's Yer Boy, Scurvy

 

[Stella Brando]

Real Women Have Scurves

 

[Faarbaute]

Sun and Steel

 

[good fucking shit happen]

Breaking Buck

 

[mondblut]

Swash-tika.

 

[RNGsus]

Imagine a game with cavaliers, pirates, gentleman highwaymen, musketeers, duelists, puritans, chandelier swingers, and of course, more sword-fights than you can shake a rapier at.

What would you call it?

Game of the Year.

 

[RNGsus]

I found En Garde is already taken, dammit.

How about a Robocop inspired name -- 'State of the Art Ching Ching'



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Generally I'm in favour of either the simple:


A Cavalier Attitude


~~or, combining two names into the super long and silly:


CHING! CHING! CHING!
The Game of Swashes &
Those that Buckle Them


Really long names were all the rage in those days, anyway:

Do you think we will live to see such a glorious time return?

 

[Faarbaute]

Maidens and Muskets

 

[Trojan_generic]

ARRR! PG

 

[The_Mask]

Pirates of the Dark Waters

Spoiler

 

[Old One]

Thrust & Parry

 

[Radiane]

Feists and feuds of the far seas
Bounty, boobs and blazing bucaneers
Ludicrously ludders in the lavish lagoons
Jabs and jizzes journeying the jittering waters

 

[sgm]

There Ye Go, Man! : A Butt Pirate Role Playing Game

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Spoiler

 

[deuxhero]

Pirates of the Dark Waters

Spoiler

Reminder the Genesis game gave the series a proper ending.