Welcome to The 17th Century

Monseiur LaPorte's En Garde! Campaign

The game started in Janvier 1630, I joined in Mars. As of this writing we are starting my characters third year in Paris. M. Putios and M. Fogeron met their demise a while back, and I haven't had time to start a new character, though I have been reading the turn results, though not in fine detail. [I was amused to read about Fogeron's posthumous rehabilitation] Follow the link above to get to the narrative of events. Follow this link to get to the administrative pages.

Steve Kramer's "Pirates!"

Yes it has the exclimation point, no it's not a musical. This is a explicitly non-historical game, To wit it is the events of the Year of Our Lord sometime between the discovery of the new world and the sinking of the Spanish Armada. The GM once stated, " If I run out of ideas, the Spanish will attack." Unfortunately when the players run out of ideas, we sack Martinique. Again. When M. Putois reaches the point where he is no longer welcome in Paris, I'll have him sent to New France and convert him from EG to Hero system.

Dan's Musketeer Game

This hasn't started yet. Maybe soon.

Source Material

Since source material is scattered across print and film, this is probably the most appropriate place to put this.

Jeffrey's Rules of Entertainment

1. The book is always better.
2. Don't read the book until after you've seen the movie.
3. See the movie. If it is a good movie, enjoy the movie. Good movies are rare. Spoiling a perfectly good movie because you've read the book is a waste. Take the movie as a thing unto itself.
4. Read the book. Enjoy the book even more than the movie, because it's better (see #1).
5. Doing it in this order gets you at least twice the pleasure. You get a good movie and a good book. Switch it around, and you'll end up with negative pleasure, frothing about how badly the book treated your favorite bits from the book will offset the fun of reading the book.
6. If you screwed up step 2 & 3, put the book out of your mind while you watch the movie, and then go re-read the book. At least then you'll have the fun of arguing over minute bits of trivia with everybody else who read the book first.
7. Sometimes (though rare) the movie's rewrite will improve things. The end of The Princess Bride comes to mind. On the whole the book was better, but some details were 'fixed' in the movie.
8. Movies are not bad because they're not like the book, but because they're just bad.
9. Don't waste time argueing with the people that read the book first. They're right, the book was better.
10. Avoid Live Action Role Playing Games. Once you've lived it you will never again be satisfied merely watching or reading.
11. I learned all this the hard way. Take the advice of a bitter old man. Don't do as I did.

Random bits of 'Literary' History

Random bits of real History

Peter Anthony Motteux (1663-1718), a Huguenot refugee in London, established a literary reputation by completing Sir Thomas Urquhart's translation of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, then Cervantes' Don Quixote. He later became an import-export merchant. On his 55th birthday he donned his scarlet cloak and went out on the town. He picked up a prostitute and after some dalliance returned to her bordello. Shortly thereafter he was found dead, although the evidence is that he was in good health when he arrived. Literary evidence is that he died from assisted erotic asphyxia, a variant of autoerotic asphyxia, cf. the case of Frantisek Koczwara (Am J Forensic Med Pathol 5:145-149, 1984.)

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