Topics: Genres : Historical
Roleplaying games using reality-based historical (i.e., before the last century) settings. Many such games have been published (beginning in 1975 with TSR's Boot Hill and GDW's En Garde!), but few have had any longterm success in the gaming market.
En Garde
Set in 17th-century France, En Garde! is both the first 'swashbuckler' roleplaying game and the first RPG published by Game Designers' Workshop.
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Free Systems
Non-commercial tabletop games using reality-based historical (before the last century) settings.
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Run Out the Guns
Iron Crown Enterprises' 1998 historical game set in the 17th-century Caribbean. Run Out the Guns uses a simplified version of ICE's Rolemaster rules.
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