#4: My Favorite Era in History

RPGnet Columns · #1 08-04-2009, 01:00 AM

http://www.rpg.net/columns/abitofhis...history4.phtml

Summary:

It's the British Anti-Slave Trade of the 19th century!

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seneschal · #2 08-04-2009, 10:09 AM

I like it. As you said, it provides a sort of Star Trek adventure vibe (Gene Roddenberry was inspired in part by the Horatio Hornblower novels) in a historical setting that allows the player-characters to be the good guys without any politically correct hem-hawing. Now, where did I put those nautical charts? It's time to weigh anchor!

Bipolar Bear · #3 08-04-2009, 01:48 PM

I love it!

I'm a history teacher and I run historical rpgs for high school students as an after school class. I'm following your column with rapt fascination!

Sand Rodent · #4 08-04-2009, 02:18 PM

Bipolar Bear:

Quote:

I'm a history teacher and I run historical rpgs for high school students as an after school class. I'm following your column with rapt fascination!

Great to hear it! If i ever return to teaching I hope to start an RPG club. A couple of times I have written small RPG style lessons. I did an Oregon Trail week long project with a Junior American History class. Worked well, a significant number of them died (in game that is).

Thanks to everyone for reading my column. In the coming months the column will tie into some historical RPG's I have written (and are writing) that will be published soon. Keep an eye out in October for the first of my Shameless Plugs.