• lime!
        link
        fedilink
        English
        512 days ago

        don’t think so but it could have. the fax machine was patented in 1843, 22 years before Lincoln was shot, although the first commercial service was started up the same year he died.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        312 days ago

        Nope, not really, it’s another meme I’ve seen that this reminded me of. Same kind of premise, look at all these dates that overlap kind of thing. Fax machine invented, samurai still a thing, Lincoln still a thing, therefore samurai sent fax to Lincoln.

        Since this one brought up the samurai too, I just thought it would be funny to merge them together and have the samurai in this party be that same one that supposedly sent the fax.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    2113 days ago

    I built a one-shot around this idea on a heavily-modded Tiny D6 system, letting people choose which of the 4 they wanted to be with variants like wealthy or scientific Victorian, captain or gunner pirate, disgraced or retired Samurai, cattle driver or 49’er, and so forth. I set it in San Francisco to get some good conflux of cultures.

    Of my 4 players, 3 of them chose to be rich Victorians. facepalm

    • @GraniteM
      link
      413 days ago

      Well, you just gotta only allow one archetype per team, figure out a system for the players to draft their choice fairly, and then let the chips fall where they may.

    • ...m...
      link
      fedilink
      311 days ago

      …that’s exactly where my imagination went first, and then onward to the league of extraordinary gentlemen, and then i started brainstorming elements for my eberron campaign…

  • @LovableSidekick
    link
    10
    edit-2
    13 days ago

    Cool idea, except the pirates wouldn’t be part of it cuz the era you’re calling the “old west” didn’t start in 1800 - westward expansion was in its early beginnings then. The classic era of gunslingers and saloons and stuff was really a very brief period between the Civil War and the 1890s. Another forgotten bit of trivia about that time is that around 25% of cowboys then were black.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    7
    edit-2
    13 days ago

    According to that image French privateering ended before two of those other things started, right?

    Am I missing something?

    • @TybaltAurelius
      link
      4113 days ago

      I think that’s why they specified an “elderly” privateer - past their glory days.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      2813 days ago

      That‘s the reason for elderly French pirate. The people involved didn’t just disappear because privateering ended.

      • @lunarul
        link
        413 days ago

        I don’t think a pirate being as young as 12 would have been impossible, so they could be in their 50s too.

        • @Archpawn
          link
          113 days ago

          John King was somewhere from eight to eleven when he became a pirate.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    712 days ago

    “Gunslinger” is largely going to be after 1865, after the US Civil War. Revolvers as we know them in the old west only existed after the 1850s. The first revolvers that you would call a revolver would be about 1835. So you don’t really have the overlap for French privateer, unless it’s a former privateer.

    • ...m...
      link
      fedilink
      4
      edit-2
      11 days ago

      …i think that’s why it says elderly french pirate: he was formidable in his youth, but that was four decades ago…

      (revolvers may rule the day but a well-timed flintlock will still f*ck you up)

    • @ChicoSuave
      link
      213 days ago

      This is one of my favorite underrated gems of a cowboy movie.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍
    link
    fedilink
    English
    213 days ago

    I keep saying I’m going to play a PC based on Kingo Nonaka.

    But in my version he would have also briefly been a Pacific ocean pirate during his journey from Japan to Mexico.

  • @Rednax
    link
    213 days ago

    Or you play a system that has build a world where the age of exploration, king Arthur, the Russian revolution, the hanseatic league, the itialian city states, the spanish inquisition, and much more are all happening at the same time.

    7th Sea has some wacky world building, but it stays realistic enough to be quite believable and coherent.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        27 days ago

        RIFTS is set in the future, 300 years after an apocalypse brought magic back to earth

        It’s fantasy + sci fi