I'm running a Savage World's game for a group with some new-gamers and some experienced ones (and it's been non-functional in terms of getting started--there's a whole interesting story here that I won't go into now).

But here's a snippet of an IM conversation (names changed) that I thought people might find interesting. The guy was going to see Pirates and he'd loved it. He lamented I couldn't make it tonight to see it again with him.

Narco: Maybe I'll run a Pirates of the Carribean game when the Neverim game is over ...

N.: okay...can you do that?

Marco: sure, why not?

N.: okay

Marco: high seas, swashbuckling adventure, the royal navy, and ... skeletons! It'd practically write itself!

N.: :-)

Marco: I've been in campaigns where everyone played professors at a university ... you can do *anything* with RPG's ... (this one was a horror game and some of the people got eaten ... but still)

N.: wow didn't even think of that...just figured you still need core rules for it

Marco: not as hard as you'd think.

Marco: depending on what the action is and how you'd want to simulate it.

N.: oh

Marco: or "portray it" is a better word than simulate)

Marco: yeah, well, as Sledgehammer said "Trust me, I know what I'm doing."

I meant to say "run itself" rather than "write itself."

These guys have played several different fantasy games (D&D3e, Warhammer, etc.)--they've rarely played more than 2 sessions of the same game as a group.

Edit for clarity: the group, until I started running the present was a non-starter. The first session of the SW game was run last week to great enthausiasum. I expect it to continue (but, of course, time will tell).

-Marco

Odd. I'm running a swashbuckling game with low-level superpowers using the Aberrant system. Another local group is running a swashbuckling game using Hackmaster as the basic rules. I wonder how many other pirate games will have been sparked by PotC.

Arr, matey, any fool who has taken but one piece of the Aztec gold will be cursed to run a swashbuckling campaign, lest he face the wrath of the heathen gods!