Book 4.  Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies
Author: Chad Underkoffler
Genre: Role playing game
Pages: 323
Release date: 2009

This is my extensive review of Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies by Chad Underkoffler (with an assist to Evil Hat). Anyone that knows me knows how much I love the rpg Spirit of the Century by Evil Hat. This game definitely shares much of what I love about that game. Especially tying into a pulpish genre that I can sink my teeth into. With SOTC, it was 1920’s pulp, with S7S it is the Swashbucklers of the 16^th century. Who doesn’t love the three Musketeers? I have so many memories of all those movies (my favorite being the more recent one with Sutherland, Sheen, etc). 

But since this is the longest review EVER.  I am going to LJ Cut it.  Short verson?  Do you like Pirates?  Do you like Musketeers?   If so, buy this book.  :)

Mutant City Blues
Swashbuckler's of the Seven Seas

he second round of the playtesting for the Dresden Files Rpg is about to start. The reason that is news to me (and then you) is that I was selected to be one of the playtesters. The first round was called Bleeding Alpha, while this one is going to be called Burning Alpha. Here is the artwork that says quite a bit about what Evil Hat is trying to achieve. Not to mention it is just cool as hell! 




I came across this game accidentally about a year ago. I was looking around Jim Butcher's website (mainly do to how much of a fan I am of The Dresden Files) and came across an image you could download talking about the role playing game being designed based on the books.

Obviously, I was intrigued and went and looked at Evil Hat's website. I had never heard of them, but that isn't saying much considering how little I knew of the Indie gaming scene. But upon checking out the site I immediately signed up for the playtesting although I had no idea about the games they had previously made.
Since then I have become a HUGE fan of Spirit of the Century. It uses Fate, which is Evil Hat's version of Fudge (yes it can get confusing). The Dresden Files Rpg will be using an updated version of Fate (3.0) and since I have played SOTC a few times now, I am very excited about the dynamic system these games use. It should be awesome.

You can also check out the community I started here on LJ for all things related to the game.

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The goals is get as many people as possible to post (or link to) their blogs about the game. That way everyone that wants to know about the game has a place to go to get the info. I can only hope that all the playtesters will help in this. Speaking from someone that was hungry for info about the game earlier this year (during the first playtest); I know what it was like to go searching for the info. Hopefully, this will make the search easier.

Lastly, I cannot even begin to say how excited I am about this. I love the Dresden Files and SOTC is awesome. My hat goes off to Fred Hicks, Lenny Balsera, Chad Underkoffler, and everyone else at Evil Hat that is doing anything to help this project along.

Stacey