I certainly expect to go through and pillage for my Witch Hunter game, but beyond that I couldn't really say until I see a more finished version of the rules.

The Dragaeran books by Steven Brust, particularly the Phoenix Guard novel.  All about swashbuckling, and the magic shouldn't be too hard to codify.

Edgar Rice Burroughs: Mars, Venus, etc.

Swashbuckling, almost always succeeds, guns are deadly.  Fighting through hordes while the villain of the piece makes off with the princess. (or prince)

I kind of considered how possible it would be to run Legend of the Five Rings with this system, I know we're set to have an Eastern version of the game once the current run of books are finished off, but it still seems like the background systems could work as an interesting adaptation of the schools in LotFR.

It would probably end up as a much more "wuxia" style game than classic Samurai but it could be interesting all the same.

My initial thoughts were, in no particular order:

• ​Firefly
• Stargate: SG-1
• Any anime :p

The Editor-In-Chief for the blog I write for asked "What games do you think would handle Dishonored?" after Dishonored 2 was shown. Amusingly enough, 7th Sea 2nd Edition jumped to mind if I can make a few necessary tweaks for the setting.

You know as strange as it might sound, I think that the 7th sea system could be very cool for a Sword and Sorcery setting. When you really get down to it Swashbuckling and S&S have a similar feel focusing around big damn heroes and epic exploits. Sword and Sorcery tends to be on the grittier side of things, but the principle of the thing stays the same.

Biggest change would probably be sorcery, in that while 7th Sea tends to keep its sorcery on a fairly contained level, S&S tends to go big but mysterious, Sanderis might be a good fit for the darker tone that Sorcery has in S&S, but I'm also sort of tempted to treat casting a spell like it's own kind of risk.

Think of it like this, you're trying to summon and bind some demon. One raise achieves intent, but there's plenty of consequences that might come from it, the demon getting free, or you suffering burns trying to keep the circle together. Stuff like that could help keep magic free-form yet costly. It would even help mitigate the problem of one raise letting you achieve omnipotence, since using stronger spells would necessarily carry heavier consequences. (After all, in a sword and sorcery book, the inexperienced sorceror that tries to use magic outside of his ability doesn't fail, he just wreaks havoc, vaporizes himself, and probably lets some eldritch abomination free.)

The more I think of this, the more I like it. What do you guys think?

So, one 7th Sea mechanic that made it in to every system we used (and the list is long) is the Drama Die, now the Hero Point.  It made every system better.

I could certainly see 7th Sea 2e being used for Sword & Sorcery games.  Linking magic use to Hero Points would limit the number of spells cast per session to a probably manageable level.  Would you take a D&D/BESM-influenced approach, in which magic is free-form within a certain "sphere of influence"? 

I would certainly treat each spell as its own risk, and I agree that the Consequences could become quite...colourful.  Also, following the 7th Sea 2e examples, the more powerful spells could be considered "Major" versions of their respective "spheres of influence" (if you go that route), and would have some limits on their acquisition (Glamour limits Major to a certain trait, Sorte limits through Minor pre-reqs, etc.).

I agree with the suggestion of using this for Firefly.  The Risks, Consequences, and Opportunities mechanism seems to lend itself to telling Firefly stories, and the Backgrounds practically write themselves.

On the flip side of the question, my group has successfully used the Houses of the Blooded, Blood and Tears "parlor game" to run 7th Sea 1e sessions long-distance, as well as a diceless home-brew.  Anyone else imported other system influences into 7th Sea?

I was kind of thinking of having a single magic "stat" which you get more of by buying advantages. But there's not actually a skill that accompanies magic, so you have to roll it straight.

This strongly encourages hero point usage to boost your roll, but you could also use dramatic wounds (including other people's) and sometimes wealth points (for ritual magic)

I'd also probably go with different spheres as well (if only to make sure sorcerers don't all feel the same.)

As a follow up: I am working on a Dishonored hack here in the forum, and I think I'm making decent progress considering the timing (about to move). If anyone wants to offer input, I'd appreciate it.

I see the auto-Dramatic Wound caused by firearms meaning that it's new and scary. For Shadowrun I'd treat whatever tech is newest and scariest as the thing that causes auto-DWs.

So I'm still doing work on that Sword and Sorcery hack (using Atlantis the Second Age as a basis as far as setting goes.)

It's turning out well so far, Sorcery is extremely versatile but with more dangerous risks, Alchemy is handled like Hexenwurk and Calling upon the Gods for aid is treated like Sanderis (with no automatic corruption but generally larger endeavors required for the major favors, such as slaying huge monsters and other Trials of Herculesesque quests)

One thing that has been interesting is converting dueling schools. In many ways Sword and Sorcery cares even less about what weapon you use unless it's particularly significant (which is generally handled with the signature item advantage). Conan for instance kills tons of fools with only a long knife. That's what the Riddle of Steel is all about in a way. This means that I'm actually thinking of replacing Dueling Schools with something closer to warrior philosophies I'm calling Riddles (once again invoking the Riddle of Steel concept from the Conan movie.)

So for instance instead of the Aldana school we have Riddle of the Blooded Dance, where the philosophy is to think of combat itself like music to better move in tune with. Meanwhile the Boucher school is Riddle of the Thousand Cuts, which emphasizes speed and a flurry of blows to defeat ones foes.

It's mostly fluff based, but I'm tempted to replace the weapon requirements with something more suited to a less formalized school. Since it's more of a philosophy to live by, I'm tempted to come up with some sort of behavioral requirement that the warrior must hold himself to in order to properly use the Advanced Maneuver. However, I don't want to be overly restrictive in player behavior during combat, just have something as a small limitation to the riddles, similar to how one can take away some degree of a duelist's effectiveness if they're seperated from their weapons during a fight.

Thoughts?

Has anyone written a Star Wars hack? We're dropping EotE system and we coud give 7th sea a try before starting a campaign on Thea !

I'm wondering whether the system could be used for Shadows of the Apt.  It may need a little bit of equipment rules for that, or it may be able to cope with just the firearms rule.