SWVG: It Begins

Quick IRL Update: loving the new job.

Steel Wrist, Velvet Glove kicked off last night. I got together with some friends of mine, we made some awesome gazpacho, and then spent about 2 hours creating characters for Flashing Blades. There was plenty of goofing off in the midst of that but it is a slow process, especially if the players aren't already up to speed on 17th century Paris, swashbuckling tropes, and related stuff.

We ended up with Ukranian giant (or giantess...no one's sure yet), a small and stocky rogue from the Netherlands, and a German Knight of Malta. No one wanted to be French nor did anyone want to start with a profession.

We're going to get together again, hopefully in a couple of weeks, to actually play. I have lots of threads I can work on in the meantime to give them lots of adventure opportunity.

We did have a good time and that, to my mind, is the important thing.

Steel Wrist, Velvet Glove: A Flashing Blades Game

A few years back I discovered Flashing Blades, written in 1984 by Mark Pettigrew and still available in both print and PDF.

I quickly fell in love with the game and have been playing it, off and on, since then. I'm going to log campaign notes here until I get to the point where I want to build a wiki. For an example of what I hope to put together, have a look at Black Vulmea's Le Ballet de l'Acier over at Obsidian Portal. He also blogs at Really Bad Eggs which has several excellent series on how to set up and run a solid Flashing Blades game..