Good Swashbuckling D&D Type Game?

[JesterPoet]

Okay... I could swear I've seen references to a d20 swashbuckling game (other than 7th Sea.. I love 7S but I'm looking for something more D&D oriented) but for the life of me I've been unable to find it. Did I just imagine this, or is there something decent out there that people might have been talking about?

Thanks for the help. I need to run swashbuckling stuff... I've been listening to too much Minstrels of Mayhem music lately.

Man... I should have been a pirate.

 

[Henry]

Skull And Bones from Green Ronin Press.

 

[Stormborn]

If you are looking for something more DnD that the Swashbuckling d20 book in the 7th Seas setting the aforementioned Skull n Bones, while and excelent book, might not be what you are looking for either. I am guess that by DnD you mean fantasy races, etc.? There are a few options:

Freeport from Green Ronin being the best example. Lots of material, lots of adventures, very DnD but with swashbuckling.

Kingdoms of Kalamar's Salt and SeaDogs has rules for piratical games in that setting, and it would be fairly easy to adapt to any preexisting DnD setting.

Mongoose has several products realted to ships and sea adventures that you can check out on their website. Look for Ships of... and Seas of...

Check out the Homebrew and d20 Modern forums, lots of discussion there over the last year about this subject. Or try doing a search in the Reviews section for Swashbuckling, pirates, etc.

 

[JesterPoet]

If you are looking for something more DnD that the Swashbuckling d20 book in the 7th Seas setting the aforementioned Skull n Bones, while and excelent book, might not be what you are looking for either. I am guess that by DnD you mean fantasy races, etc.? There are a few options:

Freeport from Green Ronin being the best example. Lots of material, lots of adventures, very DnD but with swashbuckling.

Kingdoms of Kalamar's Salt and SeaDogs has rules for piratical games in that setting, and it would be fairly easy to adapt to any preexisting DnD setting.

Mongoose has several products realted to ships and sea adventures that you can check out on their website. Look for Ships of... and Seas of...

Check out the Homebrew and d20 Modern forums, lots of discussion there over the last year about this subject. Or try doing a search in the Reviews section for Swashbuckling, pirates, etc.

Hmmm, I'd better make myself clearer. Actually, I don't want any fantasy races and such. I guess really what I'm looking for is a good swashbuckling game that uses d20.

Sorry... I always think of 7th Sea as "roll-and-keep" so the system is more what I wanted to avoid. The setting is just fine.

I really just want to run some pirate adventures. I might be making this more complicated than it really is.

 

[Darklone]

Well, you don't want Swashbuckling d20, right?

 

[JesterPoet]

Well, you don't want Swashbuckling d20, right?

Perhaps I do.... is it any good?

 

[GMSkarka]

Hmmm, I'd better make myself clearer. Actually, I don't want any fantasy races and such. I guess really what I'm looking for is a good swashbuckling game that uses d20.

Sorry... I always think of 7th Sea as "roll-and-keep" so the system is more what I wanted to avoid. The setting is just fine.

I really just want to run some pirate adventures. I might be making this more complicated than it really is.

Allow me to second the suggestion for Skull & Bones from Green Ronin.

Completely innocently, of course. The fact that I'm one of the designers has absolutely nothing to do with it.

At all.


no, really.

 

[rjs]

Skull & Bones

Hmmm, I'd better make myself clearer. Actually, I don't want any fantasy races and such. I guess really what I'm looking for is a good swashbuckling game that uses d20.

I really just want to run some pirate adventures. I might be making this more complicated than it really is.

I'm not familiar with d20 Swashbuckling, so I can't help you there, but from what you described, (and no I'm not just pimping GR products, though I do work for Green Ronin ), Skull & Bones seems to be what you need. It doesn't have races; it uses backgrounds instead. It does have Voodoo magic and stuff, but you could easily ditch it for a more realistic game.

Good luck!
-RJS

 

[JesterPoet]

Allow me to second the suggestion for Skull & Bones from Green Ronin.

Completely innocently, of course. The fact that I'm one of the designers has absolutely nothing to do with it.

At all.


no, really.

Hmmm, well, I quite like Mutants & Masterminds... so it has caught my interest.

 

[rjs]

Man GMS, you beat me by 60 seconds.