Renaissance Hero Resources

[TheQuestionMan]

The Renaissance Era can much be argued, but for our purposes it stretches from the late 13th Century to the early 17th Century. Followed by the Regency Era, the Victorian Era, The Pulp Era, and well you get the picture.

Renaissance - Wikipedia (see the by Topic Section)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance

Musket - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musket

Pirate - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates

Baroque - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque

Renaissance Role Playing


Swashbuckler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swashbuckler

Age of Sail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Sail

Age of Discovery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Discovery

14th Century
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century

15th Century
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century

16th Century
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century

17th Century
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_century

Holy Roman Empire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire

Renaissance - The Elizethian World
http://renaissance.dm.net/

Empire Renaissance - Space Renaissance RPG
http://www.hexawizards.com/empire/empiresidebar.html

Other RPGs converted to HERO System (Thanks Lord Laiden)
http://herogames.com/forums/showthre...ed+HERO+System



Cheers

QM

[Curufea]

There's some good stuff on Wiki about the Holy Roman Empire too, if that'd help. I swipped a lot of it for the Duchy of Irolo

[TheQuestionMan]

Added

Renaissance - The Elizethian World (Check out the Links Page)
http://renaissance.dm.net/

[Kaze9999]

I want to get some herosystem write ups for the firearms of the early 1600's, when it became more apparent that heavy armor would not protect against infantrymen with massed firearms.

I want my swashbucklers/musketeers to have a good reason for not simply loading up on armor beyond simple genre compliance. A prevalence of one-shot, inaccurate firearms which can be easily dodged by an unarmored man but which can put a man down even in the heaviest armor ought to do it.

I figure the projectile would be relatively huge, the accuracy would be abysmal, and the rate of fire worse.

Something like a 2d6rka w +1 stun multiplier and -1 to hit per 1" range, reload time taking total concentration for five action-phases? And of course a real good chance of a misfire on each shot....

[Captain Obvious]

Fantasy Hero has some decent writeups for early firearms. IIRC, they don't penetrate armor any better than a comparable weapon, though, so some Piercing or Armor-Piercing wouldn't be out of line for what you want.

[Kaze9999]

Hm...armor piercing would do the trick nicely, I guess. I don't think the velocity of the thing would really justify it, but maybe relative to crossbows and such, it would make sense.