Another Short-term bundle - Honor + Intrigue

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This is another one-week offer, a swashbuckling RPG covering several settings:

Honor + Intrigue

https://bundleofholding.com/quick/HonorIntrigue

This Honor + Intrigue Quick Deal offer presents Honor + Intrigue from Basic Action Games. In the Baroque Era of the 17th Century, highwaymen menace the coach-roads, musketeers protect the king, and buccaneers cross swords on the high seas. Amid tangled webs of intrigue friends become betrayers – enemies make fleeting allies – rival nobles who smile cordially at court plot in secret – and high-flying heroes laugh at danger, swing into action, and meet foes with flashing steel and a sharp tongue.

Based on the simple and fast-playing Barbarians of Lemuria system, Honor + Intrigue is a standalone game with rules for dueling (in many unique fencing styles), social combat, black powder weapons, alchemy, sorcery, and Fortune points that help you beat overwhelming odds. You can swing from a tapestry, crash through the window, lunge at your enemy, and parry his attack all in a single turn!

This new Quick Deal gives you everything you need to careen through headlong adventures across 17C Europe. We provide each title complete in .PDF; most titles are presented in both full-color and printer-friendly greyscale formats. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices. (By publisher request, the DriveThruRPG versions of these files are inobtrusively watermarked.)

The total retail value of the titles in this Honor + Intrigue Quick Deal is US$52. Customers who pay just US$12.95 get all nine titles in our Honorable Collection (retail value $52) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete Honor + Intrigue core rulebook (retail price $15, previously presented in our March 2014 Fantastic Valor Bundle); the rules expansion The Duelist's Guide (retail $8); four intriguing adventures – Escape From Castle Island (retail $3), The Lark & The Nightingale: A Highwayman's Tale (retail $4), The Sorcerer of Volupa (retail $5), and Van Ryan's Vault (retail $4); the first installment in the Intriguing Options series of rules expansions, Volume 1: Rules + Story (retail $8); and the GM Screen Inserts (retail $3) and Swashbuckling Stand-Ups (retail $2).

My impression on a quick look was a fairly complicated system optimized primarily for combat, and a friend who has played it a few times confirms that: "Slightly awkward blending of historically realistic pirates with heroic swashbuckling action. Overcomplex rules for my taste (for anything that isn't GURPS) but the fencing is quite fun." It looks to be pretty good value, and if you like buckling your swash it's probably worth a look.