http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.comAimoo CityAimooen-USAimoo http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/trying-to-find-a-plot-I-read-o-1-1074081.html vonbildhofen 2008-11-04 02:35:40.577 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) I added it to a list of plots I want to throw against my players, but now I can't find it.  I know I read the idea somewhere, but failed to record what page/book, etc.  I thought this was in Rapier's Edge or the Montaigne Revolution books, but I can't find it.  I also thought it was a http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Vesten-blow-up-Kirk-financial--1-1057708.html Mr Big 2008-10-22 01:48:55.107 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) In my game I called it the "Counting House" but essentially it is the financial center of the Kirk and of the Vendel.  After an exciting game the heroes failed to stop the Vesten blowing up the Counting House.  To me this seems like a big blow to the Vendel and I am wondering...1.  Ho http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Seeking-Feedback-AS-USUAL-REBE-1-1054257.html Black Jack Rackham 2008-11-15 08:33:11.31 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) JUST TO BE SURE REBECCA (AND ANY OTHER CHATEAU DU CHEVERNY PLAYERS) STAY OUT!!!Ok I have a new game starting up in two weeks.  I wanted to move a bit out of my comfort zone and start and intrigue game (alright Intrigue and Action with a bit of weirdness for fun) so my plan is to have the heroes http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Session-One-Your-Best-Hits-1-1031724.html abrimmer 2008-07-26 22:18:14.843 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) Hi everyone,Not sure if this was tackled elsewhere - took a long look at the 'adventure plot' thread, but it doesn't quite get me to where I need to be. I'm antagonising over a good 'starting' adventure to introduce the setting to novice players. I have seen some of the published ones and I'm not 10 http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Is-anyone-running-a-PBEm-or-Pb-1-1030045.html RomeoCassanova 2008-07-12 15:15:52.97 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) Or would anyone be interested in participating in such a game? http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Shhh-A-new-Campaign-REBECCA-ST-1-1029063.html Black Jack Rackham 2008-07-12 22:18:52.47 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) Ok, So I've started thinking about a new 7th Sea campaign (actually has split into two but lets not worry about that for now), and I need some help.  I want to do a bit of a historical game (set around 1645) so I was hoping there was someone out there who'd compiled a list of the http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Secret-Societies-Need-Help-1-1009019.html skablah 2008-03-26 19:21:25.84 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) I think i'm correct in this, but each Secret Society seems to have two levels of secrecy 1. Those who are powerful enough to know about the organization know of this secret.  It's usually more mundane and less supernatural.  It's what the Players Guide gives you for details. 2. T http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Sorting-out-Sorte-1-993137.html Magnus Sigmundsson 2004-12-04 13:49:32.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) So far our campaign has taken place mostly in Montaigne, with a little Avalon, Castille, and the Archipelago thrown in. But soon I will have a need to involve an NPC Fate Witch, and I need some help/advice on how to roleplay the encounter. Here's a quick set-up:The PC's will be attending a party and http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Advice-for-Naval-Combat-1-987536.html Barna 2007-11-19 21:01:02.483 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) My campaign will probably get going again the weeekend after this (provided I want to avoid nasty assasination attempts from my players), and there will be some piratey stuff for a while. The first adventure will probably feature some sort of naval combat, featuring the players aboard an Explorer's http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/LARP-Villanova-s-Grand-Ball-1-986685.html Bereng 2004-07-28 09:34:26.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) To our friend SALAMANCA:Hello everyone, I have been very busy translating the whole LARP from Rapier's Edge into Spanish (is finally done). But, after all the work, there is a BIG ERRATA to the original Rapier's Edge, and I need the help from you all. The PC Reinhard Krugerannd (Eisen) is mentioned http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/TREACHERY-Sunday-players-KEEP--1-986210.html CrazyIvan 2004-04-30 22:16:24.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) Sunday players of Crazy Ivan's game, keep out. Sunday players of Crazy Ivan's game, keep out. Okay. The PC's are still stuck in 'Hamlet', or at least the sidhe creation that will inspire Montgomery Peirson to write said play. We are closing in on the final act where 'Hamlet' (Patricio, a vod http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Your-monster-idea-1-984894.html Pringles 2006-10-29 21:07:31.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) Post here your monster idea.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In Ussura, I had a basilisk (half cock ,half-reptile) that petrifie people who look at his eye. This monster was living in the catacomb of the Thamarovich castle in Veche. It was an exper http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Night-of-the-Living-Heilgrund-1-982256.html Calybos 2006-03-01 17:14:25.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" />My players are going up against Stefan Heilgrund soon, and I don't want to give him the shadow-based sorcery described in the books. But I still want Heilgrund to have an advantage?preferably a creepy, Transylvanian-style advanta http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/So-how-did-you-all-refrain-fro-1-977467.html IronDuke13 2007-11-19 21:07:14.653 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) Honestly, I just picked up the GM and Player Books about 2 weeks ago, and am on the verge of rampantly ordering just about any nation book and secret society book I can get my hands on (I have Castille, Vendel/Vesten, Invisible College and Erebus Cross so far). Is it any use trying to refrain, or sh http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Fellow-GM-s-some-advise-please-1-976991.html Strubel 2004-08-05 15:00:49.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) Hi All, I was wondering if my fellow GM's could give me some advice on how to handle a certain plot-point. This is the situation. I'm planning to adapt the HP Lovecraft story Shadow over Innsmouth and to situate it on some small forgotten island of the coast of Montaigne (or maybe Avalon). The b http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/The-quot-7th-quot-Sea-and-Love-1-976909.html Lord_Skudley 2004-06-28 11:12:49.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) I? running a side adventure in my current game, and have no ultimate goal other than ?iller?It? winter and the party is running trade routes in the?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comffice:smarttags" />TradeSea{I know, but they are mostly Highlanders and used to the cold}, fro http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Popular-Legends-Long-Post-1-976020.html Mazzarin 2005-04-19 07:23:00.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) Sorry, this is going to be a long post (hope I won? get busted by Ravenshadow ;-)), but I thought it might be worth it:When I read Ravenshadow? post about the fantastic aspect of 7th sea, it occurred to me that popular legends could make very cool material for GMs. Perhaps people can post a few not http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/A-Little-Help-1-974881.html Black Jack Rackham 2005-07-08 09:22:31.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) Anyone remember where I might find information about the families who protect the merchant prince's Strega? I'm at a loss can't seem to find them. Any help would be appreciated.Mark http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/A-tale-of-woe-1-974185.html Bartmoss 2004-05-29 07:34:44.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) <SPOILERS AHEAD - even though players should not be reading this - SPOILERS AHEAD>This is being written as I have to share an unfortunate series of events that I believe will cause the end of my current 7th Sea campaign. I think in three weeks we wont be playing, but I have to go through the m http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Ussura-s-future-A-view-from-Ru-1-963621.html 1812 2004-12-30 06:57:26.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) It's a fragment of the discussion which took place at the sitewww.gameforums.ru. This text presents one of scenarios of Ussura's future based upon the real russian history and official 7thsea books. The topic is written mainly by one of the most respected russian GMs Makkavity.?xml:namespace prefix http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Adventure-Ideas-Two-Person-Gam-1-960946.html peterrurik 2006-09-10 17:26:24.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) Hi all. Long-time reader, first-time poster, etc. So, many exciting things have happened, and Miranda, Peter, and little Nadya are on their way to Ussura. I am still trying to figure out exactly what's going to happen with these characters, and I'm curious if anyone has any input. Miranda is http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Razors-1-958990.html JackBlack 2004-07-01 10:04:01.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) I need some info on the Swordsmans guild for my wednesday game. I need to know exactly how they'd handle an iunsactioned duel between two swordsman guild members, especialy if one was also a Rassmussen student, as well as info on the Razors how to use them, stats, etc.. Any help would be greatl http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/The-true-plot-My-online-player-1-957223.html hillhome 2005-07-27 07:31:08.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) I just wanted to run this by some of you more experienced GM's out there. I'm running a PBeM game and this plot will take some time to unfold, however this is the overall plan.Interestingly, one of the PCs is being chased by the Caligari family for the death of Vincenzo and to all outward appearance http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Sophia-s-Daughters-1-952062.html Lord_Nabu 2006-03-22 03:34:29.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) I'm starting the buildup to a new Campaign at the moment, but I'm having a problem, that I was hoping you could help me with:I really don't like Sophia's daughters the way they are presented in the SD book.They are too powerfull, too all-knowing, and too much of a mega-conspiracy. And scrying is too http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/A-noble-dillema-for-my-R-C-gam-1-951953.html CrazyIvan 2005-12-30 10:42:45.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) All right. I've got -most- of a political machination here. It gets complex, so hold on tight. Dramatis Personae: Duke Chumley (I can never remember how to spell his name. The duke of Percis from the Avalon sourcebook). I've played him as an 'intentional bumbler'. Acts the fool so as to frustrate an http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Theain-Gypsies-1-951224.html Lord_Skudley 2004-01-08 23:59:48.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) I'm fleshing out an Idea and would like some input:Some time ago my friend suggested a ship full of gypsies as a chance encounter. Complete with gaudy sailsand children &animalsrunning amuck. Then I read an article in the News that got me to thinking (plotting really).It was about a Gypsy bride http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Min-and-Max-Stats-1-950977.html Mr Big 2006-03-06 06:19:56.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) I honestly cannot remember the last time one of my player's put experience into their wits trait or any of their non-combat related knacks. I've always thought it better to let my characters have free choice of their leveling up but I'm starting to see a problem. If I look at their character sheets http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Plot-Adventure-Ideas-SPOILERS-1-950212.html Black Jack Rackham 2008-11-04 07:15:17.233 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) REBECCA STAY OUT OF THIS ONEI had this idea for a new thread (forgive me if this has already been done, I did a quick search and couldn't find exactly the same thing) in which we all give a rough outline (or 6) of a campaign/ adventure hook/ random cool idea that has been rumbling around in your hea http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/The-Ferryman-1-949865.html Jackonyourback 2004-03-19 02:32:54.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) O.k., since Undruf has already posted his song about the ferryman, here's the background on him.The ferryman is an unseelie sidhe, which waits by the Great River for travelors to come and get drowned by him.Here is his story:Sometimes, when it is a dark and rainy night and someone comes to the Great http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/When-your-players-are-too-good-1-947299.html corone 2006-02-08 16:32:49.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) AsI started the 'player stupidity moments' thread I feel I have to ask for the other side of the coin.Be honest, there are moments when the players are way cleverer than the GM, finding a hole in the adventure, or just plain outsmarting you.To start things with a slightly less embarissing moment -My http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Winging-it-HELP-1-946054.html Barna 2005-09-02 09:05:12.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) OK, I promised my group a kick-ass adventure on friday night and frankly I haven`t written more than half a page. Since I`m terribly short on time (work + Modern Physics from 7 to 11 PM will do that to you...) so I`ve decided to write a very general layout and wing it. Mind you, I`m a very organized http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/looking-for-a-start-point-1-945396.html Evilkid 2006-08-25 17:13:03.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) Hi all,Just looking for some advise really, my group and are are fairly well versed in the role and keep system through L5R, and are looking at giving 7th sea a go.So what I'm looking for is a start poing, a way of getting the group together, and maybe a pre writen adventure or to so that we can get http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Serving-a-Vodacce-Prince-1-942966.html Mr Big 2005-07-20 05:19:20.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) One of my players has a Vendetta 3 against Prince Caligari. I've set into motion plans to activate it and give him a chance to take revenge on the merchantprince.Caligari arranged for a group of criminals to hijack an Explorer's Society ship and bring the artifacts to him. The heroes however managed http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Sweeney-Todd-1-930614.html Lord_Skudley 2004-11-04 11:33:40.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) My daughter is performing in the musical "Sweeney Todd" at the comunity theatre. Being a good father, and of the somewhat curious bend, I looked up the "True Story" of Sweeney Todd:Man or Myth?Attend the tale of Sweeney ToddHis skin was pale and his eye was oddHe shaved the faces of gentlemenWho nev http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Advice-for-a-GM-in-a-Player-s--1-926631.html Mr Big 2005-07-27 17:51:09.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) This has nothing to do with 7th Sea but I could still use your guy's advice.One of my players is running a game of All Flesh Must Be Eaten and I'm playing in it. My character just turned into a zombie and now I have to make a new one. The thing is I'm in a little bit of a dilemna of what to make.Ica http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Battle-for-Altamira-1-923776.html Alatriste 2006-07-24 00:14:50.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) I had an idea for a Castillian epic adventure, in the time when Ordu? is held for heresy, and his wife is trying to appeal for him. She will be in Altamira, hosted in the King? residence, waiting fot the arrival of Esteban Verdugo. But......What if the montaigne offered a deal to Eric Sieger: gave h http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/A-different-idea-Maybe-1-920079.html Rebecca Iavelli 2007-09-07 19:03:22.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) I was reading something elsewhere (Cortexsystem board), when an idea hit me.What would anyone think of the idea of a 7th Sea/Lost World mix. Using 7th Sea world, but having them go to the "Center of the Earth" and find live dinosaurs, ect.Just wondering. http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Simple-ideas-for-complex-adven-1-918726.html Alatriste 2006-01-21 17:58:27.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) Hi friends!I?e got a little...problem. I? preparing an adventure for my players. In the final act, when they have to rescue a lost child in an old sidhe temple (the temple of longing; it appearsin "fortress and hideouts"), I want them to fight an evil unseelie. ButI don? know how! I would prefer mor http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Thean-cosmology-Redux-1-918626.html BrazenLegion 2007-01-19 14:50:54.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) First, I should say that I am a big fan of the "visible" portions of the Terran setting, at least so far as most of "modern" Thea goes (so long as we pretend the meta plot did not exist). I have this here rather than chapter 1, since it conetains alot of "GM Only" material changes.(or, rough draf http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Vampires-and-Werewolves-1-914781.html El Mono Es Malo 2007-06-09 03:37:06.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) So, the rules for undead in WoB nonwithstanding, has anybody ever used either of these in their games? What sort of rules did you use? I ran a Van Helsing fueled one-shot in lieu of D&D last night, and my party had a huge geekgasm over it and wants to keep going off the intial adventure. And you http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Campaign-aid-Donovan-House-Gan-1-911178.html HBKSkippy 2004-10-06 07:35:27.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) Started up my 7th Sea campaign a few weeks ago, and I just wanted to know if you guys had any tips or suggestions for plot ideas. The party consists of an Eisen noblewoman (warrior type), Castillian renegade (El Vago wannabe), Ussuran sea captain with Pyeryem, a Vodacce merchant (secretly a Caligar http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Your-mood-music-for-gaming-1-908503.html daemon_aconis 2004-12-03 21:19:39.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) mep, forgot search. Is what I get for posting when I did. Ravenshadow, feek free to delete this thread, then i'll go revive one of the other threads. http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/At-Sea-idea-1-907560.html Pringles 2007-10-25 05:50:25.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) Well, I have done them all;- the pirate hunt- The monster attack- Being stuck on a ghost ship- the war with two fleet- The mysterious island- The mutiny- No more food on the boat.What left for a sea plot? http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Lord-s-Hand-Idea-Help-1-905700.html Captain Izzie 2007-03-17 22:10:29.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) So, I already posted this on the AEG Forum, but I'm hoping to double my resources by posting here, too. Anyway, I have a character in my game who is a Lord's Hand. He works for Falisci, and mostly he's not a bad guy -- the character, I mean, not Falisci. Thus far in my fairly new game, I've manag http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Theah-Circa-1690-1-903450.html DoctorJest 2005-07-21 01:26:13.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) I'm gearing up to run a 7th Sea game that takes place approximately 20 years after the "official" time line. I'm not necessarily using everything in the official game's metaplot, especially the CCG influenced stuff (i.e. no Cabora, no sunken Caligari island, and probably not using the "Thalusians http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/The-Swordsman-Knacks-Not-Being-1-901700.html Calybos 2005-10-31 09:44:42.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) I've run one 7th Sea game before the current one, and I honestly can't recall if Swordsman Knacks were a major factor in combat for the first game. But they sure as heck don't seem to matter in this one!Am I the only one who experiences this? Most of the fight and action scenes involve battles with http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Scrying-the-Schattenmann-1-900962.html Capitaine Grappin 2006-01-09 12:47:03.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) Back into the forum after 6 months...I have a delicate situation in my game.My last game ended when a character, a Sophia's Daughter, tryed to scry someone next to the Schattenmann, I decribed the vision as shadows, then the shadows invaded the room where she was, then she lost consciousness, ending http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/ALIAS-Milo-Giacomo-Rambaldi-Pe-1-895516.html Ravenshadow 2004-10-29 07:06:48.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) I just started to watch season 1 of Alias on DVD and they mentioned this fictional scientist, alchemistand prophet and I thought it might make an intersting (possible) NPC or even "historical" figure in Theah. Keep in mind that this was made for J.J.Abram's ALIAS, a modern spy-story.MILO GIACOMO RAM http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/quot-THAT-quot-Bloodstain-1-892410.html Ian Mackinder 2005-08-10 05:22:24.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) Was delving through the write-up for The Powder Keg Tavern (in the 'Villain's Kit'), intending to utilize it in either of my campaigns. For those who don't know, The Powder Keg is your classic pirate bar / adventure generator. Anyhow, one feature of this tavern is a single square table, with a large http://revenants7thsea.aimoo.com/category/Heart-of-Drachen-catacombs-lev-1-890787.html Capitaine Grappin 2005-04-01 09:44:44.0 Chapter 5: The Great Game (GMs Thread) I'm planning to use that Explorer's Rash hubris in the Freiburg Campaign to force him to explore the next level of the Heart of Drachen while looking for Father Herrbruck's key. Any idea of what should be below? I have a lot of nasty idea for now, but maybe someone here have a real evil idea....T