The Musketeers premiers on BBC America Sunday, 22 June . Hopefully this fares better than Queen of Swords or Young Blades .

There's a thread on Big Purple right now about using Fate to model the duel between Westley and Inigo atop the Cliffs of Insanity. I...

On my lengthy list of things to do is a post about why 1e Advanced Dungeons & Dragons is a good game for running a swashbuckling campai...

Any website with Natalie Dormer and Maureen O'Hara on the masthead automatically gets my attention. The site includes a list of movie...

Me: . . . [I]f you sat down to play a game of, say, swashbuckling adventure, why did you create a character who desires neither swashbuckli...

Roll 1D20 - 1. Repeats, "You killed my father! Prepare to die!" even though you've never met his father. 2. Insists on ...

I read comics when I was a kid - Daredevil , Silver Surfer , and G.I. Combat , picked from the spinner at our local 7-11, purchased with c...

I wonder if the type of play that happens with experienced players, especially DMs as players, is goofier and more about the impression it l...

"It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. And a hand." - Vecna's mom One of the potential consequences of losin...

Horror in roleplaying games most often involves elements of the supernatural, from vampires and vengeful spirits to unkillable boogeymen and...

Eric Treasure at The Dragon's Flagon discusses the lightly armed adventurer and the perceived need to make the maille-clad warrior and ...

In the swashbuckling era, no swordsman worthy of the name would think of sullying the fine, graceful line of his body in motion with the use...

Preface: The following was originally posted at rpg.net a couple of years ago. He knew that Saldaña was as placid as an ox in all matters ...

Need to up your character's dueling cred? Try peppering your repartee with a few of these moves. Roll 1D20. 1. Giganti's Balestr...

For the July 2000 issue of Dragon magazine, Robin Laws wrote an article entitled "Swashbuckling Essentials," containing, ". ...

Swashbucklers may be may be daredevil duelists and dashing romantics. They may be hard-bitten men and troubled souls. They may be wizened ve...

The buckler was a small, maneuverable, hand-held shield for deflecting and punching blows. It was usually round and made of metal but occasi...

My father took me to see The Three Musketeers when I was nine years old. It was the Richard Lester film, with Michael York, Oliver Reed, ...

At What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse . . . , Lord Gwydion posts about adding swashbuckling action - ". . .like swinging from chand...

In part 3 , I described using a list of genre influences - an Appendix N - as a guide for creating encounters and non-player characters for ...