After a long absence, I'm diving back in to Flashing Blades. In fact, thanks to the Captain Alatriste books, I'm writing a version to change the setting from Paris/France to Madrid/Spain.
I belatedly became aware that Yahoo Groups had a Flashing Blades group. Some game groups I was a part of moved their stuff somewhere else when Yahoo pulled the rug out from under everybody, but I can't find anything from Flashing Blades. Anyone have any ideas? I'm always on the lookout for alternate rules, or opinions on some of the vaguer rules.
Welcome to the club!
The FRUA and Gamma World groups I was part of are gone as well and both of those predated Y-Groups buying out E-Groups.
Also all the Dr Who Storytelling Game files are gone along with that group. Wasnt actually a storytelling game in the RPG sense, was a conversion of the Barbarian Prince solo board game into a new format. Someone else did the same and has it ip on Drive-Thru. Drifter.
A few years of the Gamma World group are archived here:
http://gammaworld.us/General/Yahoo.aspx
I am a big fan of Alatriste, and the Three Musketeers. Back in the '90's, D&D had a suppliment called: HR 4, A Mighty Fortress, which set D&D in 16th & 17th century Earth.
It has some useful stuff like currency exchanges and arious character archetypes.
That's cool; I've never heard of these historical D&D supplements before.
And also, I'm still chapped that the latest (last?) Alatriste book wasn't translated into English. Seriously - they translate the first 6, but not the 7th? Argh.