My copy of Honor and Intrigue from Basic Action Games arrived a while ago, although I got my printed copy from Sphärenmeisters Spiele in Germany. Just short of €37 including postage, which was far cheaper than any other availability (which I think was ordering it from the states) I had seen to get it in the UK as a printed product.
Setting is essentially swashbuckling - so that loose time period and setting that encompasses the Three Musketeers (Thirty Years War) through Pirates with a dash of Casanova, Bonnie Prince Charlie and Zorro thrown in.
I've skim read it all probably 2-3 times by now, and am currently dissecting the mechanics and generation system to fully understand them. From a roleplaying viewpoint, then it is pretty much going to be a "play off the character sheet" system, but I suspect does need players who like the genre, a bit of storytelling and who can think on their feet regarding free raises and bonus effects etc.
Going through the film list set me off on taking stock of what I already had and one that I might only have in Video format - Le Bossu...
I got a (secondhand) copy of the DVD fairly cheap off Ebay, which I then had to watch to remind myself of how much I enjoyed it.
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