Superteam Handbook by Jennifer DK, Crystal Frasier, Steve Kenson, Jack Norris, John Polojac, Lucien

Superteam Handbook by Jennifer DK, Crystal Frasier, Steve Kenson, Jack Norris, John Polojac, Lucien Soulban, Miranda Sparks, Fred Wan & Jordan Wyn

Never Played Day Six: Privateers and Gentlemen

Day Six of Unplayed RPGs: Jon Williams' Privateers and Gentlemen, published by FGU. This was a strictly historical rpg, set during the Napoleonic War Era. More specifically, it was a historical _naval_ RPG, with the focus on the Royal Navy and the US Navy. The RPG box set also included the Heart of Oak Age of Fighting Sail war-game.

I know I keep saying "this was poorly supported by FGU." In this case, the RPG and the associated war game were the whole of the line. At least, I never saw any further products.

At this point I'd read Williams' Cat Island



but it wasn't my thing (US-pov Napoleonic War era fiction has the same appeal to Canadians as a The Glorious Liberation of Karelia by the Red Army series might to a Finn). I didn't associate the historical writer Jon Williams with the SF writer Walter Jon Williams because at this point, WJW's first novel, Ambassador of Progress, had not yet been published.



Having never played the game, the only impressions that remain with me are that it was very easy for an officer's career to go off the rails, consigned to half-pay or worse, and that one's choices as to medical staff were limited to sadists, alcoholics, or alcoholic sadists.

Five SF Stories That Mix Swords and Starships

Five SF Stories That Mix Swords and Starships