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  1. Shelley McTyre's Champions game

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    1 hour ago, HeroGM said:

    Ans with that she's a Christmas goose

    You have a certain point

    37 minutes ago, Lawnmower Boy said:

    Tell her I said the young folk today are awful and the music these days sucks and the fashions these days are bad and it's all her fault.  

    Also, please don't let her cancel me. 

    Oh, I love the Zoomers! I am also terrified of them.

  3. Shelley McTyre's Champions game

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    2 hours ago, Sketchpad said:

     

    Just speaking the truth. 😄 

    Have you been doing any gaming lately?

     

    Nah, not much these days.   My husband was running a GURPS fantasy game when the pandemic started (just family, to get the kiddo gaming) and that worked right up until he got sick last summer (that was...not fun). Since then the closest we get is watching my daughter bluff her way through Among Us. 😇

     

    You? 

  9. Reboot HERO

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    Re: Reboot HERO

     

    It seems to me that there was a Reboot HERO floated around on the 'net a very long time ago -- like ten years -- but I'll be darned if I can remember who was behind it. Jim Dickinson, maybe?

  11. Dem's the Breaks

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    Re: Dem's the Breaks

     

    Thats ok so long as you know who Holmes' date=' Moriarity, Watson, and the Ripper are :P[/quote']

     

    :) Indeed, I do. But they're long, long after the Regency ends (1820). The London Monster is probably the closest Hanoverian analog to the Ripper -- he was a man who ran around London stabbing women with hat pins and similar implements, often concealed in a bunch of flowers.

     

    Shelley

  12. Dem's the Breaks

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    Re: Dem's the Breaks

     

    Since we're putting in requests for our favorite "Regency" era heros, Steve....please don't forget to write up a pastiche of Christopher Syn, the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh

     

    oryan

     

    I have no idea who this is....

     

    Shelley

  14. Dem's the Breaks

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    Re: Dem's the Breaks

     

    Well' date=' I won't say that's completely out of the question, but it's unlikely. However, if and when Shelley Mactyre finishes writing [i']Regency Hero[/i] for us, that covers roughly 1775-1820. While RH is likely to focus mostly on England/Europe, it certainly won't ignore America.

     

    When and if! As if a new law practice or pregnancy ever slowed anyone down! :)

     

    (OK, so I'm a year late to this thread -- it's been a busy one! And yes, I'm still chugging along.)

     

    Shelley

     

    PS: And I've got lots of fodder for "Calamitous Clients," Steve!

  15. Regency HERO playlist

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    Re: Regency HERO playlist

     

    So what book did you recommend? Currently I am reading Pride and Prejudice. But my Regency inpsired fantasy campaign was a hit and I am looking for more info.

     

    I just dug through my secret stash of Regencies and can't find it, which means it's probably somewhere in the garage. Mea culpa! It was a rare Regency in that it was set entirely in Ireland, featuring an Irish highwayman hero-politician and a bluestocking artist heroine.

     

    A traditional Regency romance (that's actually a term of art, as compared to a historical Regency romance) is a tame book. Usually it's a short (250ish pages) Jane Austen like comedy of manners that will end with a happily-ever-after without any sex. (There are exceptions, but that's the general rule.) They're pretty PG-13 rated. To stay safe, look for Signet/Zebra/Jove Regency titles, and go to paperback book exchanges to pick them up on the cheap. Georgette Heyer is the queen of the genre, but I also like books by Elizabeth Mansfield and Barbara Metzger. (Most of the pen names of the authors are really contrived.)

     

    A historical Regency is a long novel that usually has half-naked people on the covers. It usually features some pretty gory sex scenes (that make ME blush, and I've written sex scenes). I don't find them as entertaining as the traditional Regencies, and usually the historicals feature too much internal relationship conflict to keep my interest.

  16. Regency HERO playlist

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    Re: Regency HERO playlist

     

    This is really cool, and I hope Regency Hero sells very well.

     

    However, as a "typical" male gamer, I have to admit I know almost nothing about the regency period. Heck I don't even know if you are refering to the English, American or French regency period. (And you can thank Wikipedia for even that much knowledge.)

     

    I think to get many gamers interested you are going to have to provide almost a step-by-step guide to the Regency period, and a fair about (at least!) of plots, backstory, and character guidelines. Otherwise, I'll just be totally lost and consequently not want to play.

     

    Could you recomend a couple of good (not bodice rippers ;)) books that take place in the regency period? Does Master and Commander count?

     

    There's quite a bit that's more male-oriented. There's the Master & Commander stuff (the Jack Aubrey books), Horatio Hornblower, and the Sharpe novels, too. And you may be surprised by what you enjoy -- I loaned a pretty tame Regency romance to a male player and he later surprised me by asking for more -- to (ahem) help his "Regency dialog skills." :)

     

    And there's much more background than you ordinarily see in a RP book -- detailed history, social and cultural guidelines, and so forth, along with a very complete bibliography if you want to do some of your own research, too.

     

    -Shelley

     

    PS: Yay for Wikipedia!

  17. Regency HERO playlist

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    Re: Regency HERO playlist

     

    Since iTunes exports into a relatively unfriendly .txt file, I created a PDF. It doesn't include all the info on the .txt file but the really important parts: Song/Artist/Composer/Album/Genre.

     

    It's not pretty but hopefully a little easier to read than the text file for anyone who had trouble with it.

     

    Shelley - it's your list so the PDF is yours to if you want to use it to share the list with others elsewhere.

     

    Cool -- thanks!

     

    -Shelley

  18. Whoot! Victorian Hero Loot!

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    Re: Whoot! Victorian Hero Loot!

     

    I'll also add that I have looked over your Regency website from time to time over the years (wanting to see more - hint, hint) and love the material but I doubt I'll be able to find anyone in my small group interested in playing.

     

    Anytime, I mention something of a semi-historical nature, I see the whincing faces. Ah, well ... at least I can enjoy a good read and possibly read of others' campaigns.

     

    One thing I've found about historical games is that they're particularly well suited to PBEM. My GURPS 1793 game (http://mactyre.net/shelley/1793/) hasn't had a face-to-face sessions in ages, largely because I've focused on Regency HERO (one player did translate his PC into HERO and continues to play him, though the others made new characters). However, if you visit the yahoo! group associated with the game, there are recent PBEM posts by people who never even played in the FTF game! I set the PBEM portion up as completely self-governing epistolary posting, and it works fabulously.

     

    -Shelley

  19. Regency HERO playlist

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    Re: Regency HERO playlist

     

    "Baby's Got Bustle" ;)

     

    Oh, dear. Now I've got this horrible mental image of Prinny (the very large prince regent, rather fond of large women) singing:

     

    I like large rumps I cannot lie

    You other lords can't deny

    When an heiress walks in with a rather tiny waist

    You get sprung, what, what...

     

    I'd better stop...I have a contract to draft and I'd hate for there to be any bleed through! :)

     

    -Shelley

  22. Regency HERO playlist

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    Re: Regency HERO playlist

     

    I love the cello suites -- Bach is really too early for the period, but I started taking cello lessons about a year ago, so it's so inspiring. Really, I don't mind using "older" music because then, as now, older classical music was played along contemporary music.

     

    A composer I'm very excited about -- because I've just read his biography -- is the Chevalier de Saint-George. I've got two of his CDs on the way via Amazon, and can't wait to listen to them. He was the mulatto son of a French plantation owner (and later prominent minister) who was, for a time, the best swordsman in Europe, and became a prominent musician composer, as well.

     

    -Shelley

  24. Regency HERO playlist

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    I was privately asked about music recommendations for a Regency-flavored game. I thought others might be interested, so I'm posing here.

     

    There are lots of great sources of mood music -- period music, film soundtracks, and inspired-by types of music. I mix my classical music collection up to Beethoven (chronologically) in with soundtracks and country dance music. Naturally enough, I have a Regency Mood Music playlist for my iPod, and as a courtesy am attaching a text file with this message.

     

    -Shelley

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