"How to Create a Swashbuckler" is a series of articles in which I create new characters by the book for different swashbuckling role-playing games. Why? To elucidate the process of character creation, evaluate its verisimilitude, and analyze the actual fun in creating such a character as well as extrapolate the fun to be derived from playing the same? Yes, but also to put some of these games to some kind of use, which I might not ever get a chance to play. And maybe, through this exercise and a rereading of the rules, I might be inspired to run one or more of them instead of watching them collect dust.
Here, then, I will keep a list of the articles as I post them for reference:
- How to Create a Swashbuckler in En Garde!
- How to Create a Swashbuckler in Skull & Crossbones
- How to Create a Swashbuckler in Pirates & Plunder
- How to Create a Swashbuckler in Flashing Blades
- How to Create a Swashbuckler in Zorro: The Roleplaying Game
- How to Create a Swashbuckler in Privateers and Gentlemen