Recent Review of En Garde!

[The Perilous Dreamer]

Game Review - En Garde! - FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 2021 at These Old Games by Phil Viverito.

[hengest]

All I can say is that this review made me want even more to read the game when I have time. The review was refreshingly light and genuine, felt like it told me about the writer's actual experience of reading the materials.

[The Perilous Dreamer]

Jun 26, 2021 21:01:12 GMT -5 hengest said:

All I can say is that this review made me want even more to read the game when I have time. The review was refreshingly light and genuine, felt like it told me about the writer's actual experience of reading the materials.

May I quote you over on MeWe? In my group there where I got the link.

[solfe]

Jun 26, 2021 22:56:35 GMT -5 The Perilous Dreamer said:

Jun 26, 2021 21:01:12 GMT -5 hengest said:

All I can say is that this review made me want even more to read the game when I have time. The review was refreshingly light and genuine, felt like it told me about the writer's actual experience of reading the materials.

May I quote you over on MeWe? In my group there where I got the link.

Hey, thanks! I'm on a mission to publish 52 reviews in 2021. En Garde! was the 30th of the year. I'm running a smidgen ahead of schedule. As of now, I have 60+ reviews, everything from movies to games. 

You can check them out here. www.theseoldgames.com/p/2021-review-index.html

En Garde has always been special to me because my dad bought me a book called "What is Dungeons and Dragons" back in the 1980s. One of the chapters covered the game in a section called "Other Worlds". It has always struck me as intriguing. 

[The Perilous Dreamer]

Jun 26, 2021 23:04:40 GMT -5 solfe said:

Jun 26, 2021 22:56:35 GMT -5 The Perilous Dreamer said:

May I quote you over on MeWe? In my group there where I got the link.

Hey, thanks! I'm on a mission to publish 52 reviews in 2021. En Garde! was the 30th of the year. I'm running a smidgen ahead of schedule. As of now, I have 60+ reviews, everything from movies to games. 

You can check them out here. www.theseoldgames.com/p/2021-review-index.html

En Garde has always been special to me because my dad bought me a book called "What is Dungeons and Dragons" back in the 1980s. One of the chapters covered the game in a section called "Other Worlds". It has always struck me as intriguing. 

Over 60 reviews and it is the end of June, I am impressed. A smidgen ahead of schedule! 

Rob Kuntz was very impressed with En Garde! and mentioned it several times. A lot of good resources for En Garde! vanished from the Internet before I heard of it.

We had this thread Spinoff - En Garde! and Call of Cthulhu and En Garde!.

[The Perilous Dreamer]

En Garde! in play - online and offline
At this link there are a bunch of defunct games listed and some of them would be really interesting. There was a Dune Variant, a couple of Science Fiction variant and a variant called Warriors of Mars - En Garde! adapted to the Barsoom setting of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Mars books. I really would have love to have had the info on the last one. But it was defunct years before I heard of it and there is no website so even using the Internet Archive we are out of luck. En Garde! and Barsoom are meant for each other.

[hengest]

Jun 26, 2021 22:56:35 GMT -5 The Perilous Dreamer said:

Jun 26, 2021 21:01:12 GMT -5 hengest said:

All I can say is that this review made me want even more to read the game when I have time. The review was refreshingly light and genuine, felt like it told me about the writer's actual experience of reading the materials.

May I quote you over on MeWe? In my group there where I got the link.

Sure!

[The Perilous Dreamer]

Jun 27, 2021 4:42:47 GMT -5 hengest said:

Jun 26, 2021 22:56:35 GMT -5 The Perilous Dreamer said:

May I quote you over on MeWe? In my group there where I got the link.

Sure!

Thanks!

[The Perilous Dreamer]

Over at MeWe, Ian Borchardt had this to say:

I find that En Garde is much improved through the addition of elements of Flashing Blades myself. Which was pretty much Advanced En Garde really. And the fencing system for Lace & Steel fits in quite well here as well (it's a bit too complex for the role-playing game that it was originally a part of, and is an excellent system in and of itself). A lot of the well established PBM games of En Garde, such as Les Petites Betes Soyeuses, have also adopted their own additional rules, particularly to do with the PBM regime (especially, as most did, when they moved to a monthly basis for turns).



Remember the important thing about En Garde is to be public with what you do as secrecy kills the game. Just remember that Society will all be covertly aware of your character's various indiscretions and agog with gossip, so you will soon know whose been visiting whose mistress. Remember it was originally a GMless game that was played by all sitting around a table declaring their actions for the week to everyone else, with any conflicts that arose voted on by all the players (except it wasn't quite democracy because you were always forced to vote in favour of your regimental comrades in any dispute, regardless of whether they were in the right or in the wrong).



It's a fun fast game.