[RPG]: GURPS Age of Napoleon, reviewed by committed hero (3/4)

http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/9/9655.phtml

allthumbs's Summary:

Buy it for the details, not for fresh ideas in an era overlooked by RPGs.

Go to the full review for more information.

Post originally by allthumbs at 2003-09-01 11:34:03
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Sorry.

Post originally by Matt Stevens at 2003-09-01 12:01:48
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For those who care: I know of one other Napoleonic RPG, "Privateers and Gentlemen," published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in the early 1980s. FGU came out with a few adventures for the game, and they may be worth tracking down.

Post originally by Chris Davies. at 2003-09-01 13:37:32
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... can be found at Pyramid, available free in support of this product.

http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.cgi?3463

Chris Davies.

Post originally by Gurpsian at 2003-09-01 17:51:55
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<B>Character templates, which are omnipresent in most recent books, are not here. Instead they are replaced by the older-format "character types" ...</B>

Based on this alone, I now intend to purchase the book to support this decision.

Holy freaking hallelujia.

Post originally by Ingo at 2003-09-01 23:49:54
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And it´s a great game, including table-top rules for ship action. A fine product, I recently started a campagne.

Post originally by Alex at 2003-09-02 05:56:43
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Well, instead of adding zero to the discussion, take the time to write your own review and rate it a "5".

Post originally by Chris Camfield at 2003-09-02 06:00:15
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You might want to post about that in Trouble Tickets, then, and get someone to change it.

Post originally by Jason L Blair at 2003-09-02 08:48:12
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allthumbs wrote the above review. He was just pointing out a mistake he had made.


Jason L Blair
Key 20 Publishing
www.key20.com

Post originally by Jay Verkuilen at 2004-06-21 10:43:06
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This is covered in the book but there are A LOT of sources/inspiration about this era around that would make for suitable RPG material with some creativity. I'd love run a Napoleonic era thing.

I single out novles by Patrick O'Brian (Aubrey and Maturin), Bernard Cornwell (Sharpe), and the granddad of them all, C. S. Forester (Horatio Hornblower). There are movie versions of all, of varying quality. Of course Master and Commander was a major theatrical release. The new Horatio Hornblowers with Ioan Gryfudd are just great, and a good way you could have a campaign. Availability in the USA is spotty for the Sharpe series with Sean Bean but they too are fun.

David Weber's Honor Harrington is space opera that wears its obvious Forester inspiration proudly.

Jay