En Garde!

[Admin Pete]

In today's mail I got an old tattered beat up copy of En Garde!. Game Designer's Workshop, 1975



“Being the in Main a Game of the Life and Times of a Gentleman Adventurer and his Several Companions”

The author's names are not actually in the book, so from elsewhere I found this info.  Designed by Darryl Hany and Frank Chadwick, Developed by John Harshman and Loren Wiseman


6 x 9 inch booklet, 47 pages (29 pages of rules, 18 pages of tables)

4 page errata sheet (two and a half pages of them a single table of regimental organizations)


This Game is Dedicated to Alexander Dumas, Danny Kaye, and Sir Harry Flashman


From the Introduction

...There are people to be used, friends in high places to be cultivated, enemies to be humiliated,the Cardinal's Guard to be trounced, lackies to be abused, the hand of a fair damsel to be won, and the ear of the King to be gained.
Come with us now, to those vibrant, bawdy days of Yore...
Sharpen your sword .... Sharpen your wit .... Take care not to insult a small man with a large nose .... All for one and one for all ... Good luck, friend, and may your Swash never Buckle!

BTW this game is definitely not politically correct.

[robkuntz]

May 20, 2017 1:06:20 GMT -5 Admin Pete said:

BTW this game is definitely not politically correct.

And thank GOD for that!!

[Mighty Darci]

Congrats! PD!

[mao]

Toatlly had this back in the day, played quite a lot. ahhhhhh fond OSR memeories!!!!

[Admin Pete]

Jun 28, 2017 6:53:10 GMT -5 mao said:

Toatlly had this back in the day, played quite a lot. ahhhhhh fond OSR memeories!!!!

Tell us about it. We like to hear about play experiences.

[mao]

You want me to tell you about a game I played in 1978? ? Good luck w that? LOL

[Admin Pete]

Jun 28, 2017 7:07:43 GMT -5 mao said:

You want me to tell you about a game I played in 1978? ? Good luck w that? LOL

Well tell us about what made the game fun for you. You don't have to have really specific stories.

[mao]

Once you look at game PD you will see how it had influance on Traveller(same game co)

[Maximum Forest Ranger]

Jun 28, 2017 8:43:20 GMT -5 mao said:

Once you look at game PD you will see how it had influance on Traveller(same game co)

En Garde! and Traveller are by the same people? I would never have guessed that.

[mao]

Jun 28, 2017 7:01:07 GMT -5 Admin Pete said:

Jun 28, 2017 6:53:10 GMT -5 mao said:

Toatlly had this back in the day, played quite a lot. ahhhhhh fond OSR memeories!!!!

Tell us about it. We like to hear about play experiences.

Internet ate my answer. I was 18 and I had gotten it in 1978, so I was caught up in the adolesant fun of being a musketeer. I played a lot solo and a litle bit w my high school friends. I can't remeber anything else other than I love En and played a lot before I discovered D&D.