Was that the samurai that sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln?
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2024
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Is that an event that occured?
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.
There's a holodeck episode in there somewhere
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
Rip, gotta find new players
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.
There's a cowboy in Dracula
According to that image French privateering ended before two of those other things started, right?
Am I missing something?
I think that's why they specified an "elderly" privateer - past their glory days.
That‘s the reason for elderly French pirate. The people involved didn’t just disappear because privateering ended.
Wait, you're telling me that privateers don't just grow into the hulls of their ships like Bill Turner?
Some say there are pirates to this very day, and that they sail a sea that holds no water
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_off_the_coast_of_Somalia
There are pirates right now, and they are sailing on water.
They just don't , you know, dress up like old timey pirates.
Real missed opportunity tbh. Scurvy is neccassary for my immersion in the experiance
Elderly French pirate so they would be in in their 60s or more
I don't think a pirate being as young as 12 would have been impossible, so they could be in their 50s too.
[off topic?]
"Red Sun" Toshiro Mifune and Charles Bronson. After bandits steal a sword being carried to Washington, a samurai and a gunslinger must unite to bring it home.
This is one of my favorite underrated gems of a cowboy movie.
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.