Hello there Guys!

I've got two other new players also joining, so feel free to chime in here.

I was thinking that they might have taken passage on Valentino's ship to get here, but, of course, there are other ways for them to have done that.

The Bucephalus is always accepting of passengers!

Alicia is still around.

Apologies for the delay. Family event, house cleaning/prep, medical procedure, and old age all hit me over the last two weeks. Plus, I had a brain fart. You guys' posts were so good I couldn't figure out how to respond! Finally worked through it!

Oh I am away from my Rulebooks at the moment.... can someone look up Disarming smile and tell me if it needs a Hero point to activate or if it is just something you can do once a session or something like that.

Also... How do the "Once a Session" things work in this game.  Is that effectively a once per thread thing?

Yes, Disarming Smile requires a Hero Point.


The book is actually a bit wishy-washy on what a 'session' is. For the most part, it seems to mean a 'game session'. But that isn't defined either. In general, however, it would seem to mean each time the group of players get together. Based on the evolution of the game and the application during game conventions, I'd have to say that's meant as a 'four-hour session'. Players get together one evening a week and game from 6-10 or so (or 7-11). Even if they get together more than one night per week, each one is a 'session'.

There was a time when my gaming group got together on Sundays and gamed for 8-10 hours. In that case, I'd say it was 2 sessions back-to-back, perhaps breaking for supper being the delineator between the two sessions.

The 7th Sea book says a session is an Episode, but seems to define Episode as a 'game session'.

In other words, what they seem to be saying is that these 'once per session' abilities should be restricted to once each time your group gets together... a sort of 'one per customer' thing.


Obviously, this becomes problematical at best with online/PbP games. However, you could easily interpret an Episode as a Scene. Or, to qualify it a bit better, a Major Scene. Like the old movie and radio serials, each episode tended to be a limited event--set-up, derring-do, chase, cliff-hanger. Scenes weren't normally strung together... or, if they were, they weren't involved scenes. An adventurer might fly to Rio and then take a boat up the Amazon. A conversation on the plane, however, would only be a minor scene to establish some important plot information, but otherwise there wouldn't be any significant event/threat/danger/etc.

So, that's what I'll do for this game.

The current scene is two-fold: the Beast in the chandlery, and the confrontation in the tavern. When any of those characters change scenes, that's a new 'session' (provided the scene change is significantly different). Example: Vasily and Valentino could go to the chandlery, but unless something significant happens in the chandlery, it would only be a minor scene change.

How does that sound?

Sounds good for me! I was just pondering for the using of Virtues/vices to get Hero points back and similar.

I like the idea of a "session"/"episode" consisting of a single major scene, along with any ancillary minor scenes as they come. It makes good sense for both PbP, and even for in person gaming. For PbP it also makes it so that you can feel like you can use your hero point stuff (and once per session stuff like Arcana, Quirks, etc) in any big scene, since you don't have to worry about pacing them out for the next big scene.

That stuff (the hero points and once per session stuff) is one of the biggest impediments to the fun derring-do style of the game, in my opinion. Since you have to economize them so much, you end up tending to act a lot less derring-do and a lot more mousy accountant.

I agree with you there Vasily.  It also depends on the GM I have found.  I have played in two pen and paper games of 7th sea, and this is my first play by mail one so to speak.   One GM I found myself hoarding my hero points a little more, whilst the other gave them out a little more freely.  Both led to subtly different experiences in the amount of daring do.  I was also playing much different characters.

Funnily enough.... both were on the Anti-hero spectrum.  Hopefully Valentino will be somewhat more Heroic.

Howdy folks. New player here, just thought I'd say hello. I'm currently sorting out my number crunching in between interviewing for a new job & working shifts in my current one. If it all goes to plan I'll be up & running by weekend.

Welcome! Just in time for Daring do!

PbP is like slow motion. Very few games actually last long enough for XP to be granted.

I did play in a 7th Sea 1.0 game here on RPoL that lasted four years+ and the GM did grant XP, but that was the exception.

edit: That's 30XP, 12DD for 628 posts.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:02, Thu 08 Mar 2018.

Yes, you have to remember what the point of 7th Sea was originally--John Wick wanted to create a game where you could play the Captain Bloods, Zorros, Robin Hoods and Three Musketeers without having to play your character for 5 or 6 years in order for him to get good enough to BE those characters.

When you look at it that way, XPs seem a bit pointless, but you obviously need a way for your character to get better.

Its why I quite like the whole advancement stories in 2nd edition... however... I have yet to actually finish one in a 2nd Edition game.  The first game I played, the story was perhaps a little long.

This is probably not going to work like advertised, but Knocking people out from behind is part of the genre.  So lets give it a go!

At very least it could be a "bash" maneuver... which is like a daze sort of effect. :)

Ah yes! That is true

Geez, Mr "I Roll 10s or I don't bother rolling!" haha, and, yes, I believe you counted right; 3 raises.

Nice to see someone brought a Gun to a Gunfight though.

I will be posting in a day or two.  Sorry I haven't been about, life has been a little rough of late.

No problem. I've been sick for the past two weeks, so my ability to post has been rather limited.

All better now... well, mostly. Still a bit tired. I'll probably recover that slowly.

So, are we still playing?

If you're up, I'm up :)

I'm still here, raring to go.