The Wine Dark Sea
This is the main wiki page for The Wine Dark Sea, a historical play-by-post game set in 484BC and powered by ACKS.
Dramatis Personae[edit]
The Player Characters and their henchmen
Anthocles of Syrakousai and Nesamun - the quartermaster and an Egyptian doctor, along with Anthocles' allies amongst the crew. Played by TBear.
Hilarion and Hyginos of Kypros - the captain of archers and his brother. Played by Scarik.
Nikandros and Glaukias of Athens - a master shipwright and his apprentice. Played by Carwyn.
Theagenes of Corinth and Cleitomachos of Lemnos - the captain of marines and a sailor. Played by ChalkLine.
Non-player characters
The crew roster for the ship - A listing of who is aboard, under normal circumstances.
Other NPCs of note - Anyone else worth remembering.
Game Threads[edit]
[ IC thread] - The In Character (IC) thread on RPGnet. Please note this is for the players only.
[ OOC thread] - The Out of Character (OOC) thread on RPGnet. Spectators are welcome to post here.
Recruitment - The original recruitment thread.
Setting Notes[edit]
The Maps - Because where would RPGs be without maps?
The Greco-Persian Wars - The defining conflicts of the age, the game takes place during the interbellum between two major phases.
The Ionian Revolt - The tumult that kicked it all off, some of the PCs are veterans of those conflicts, which began 15 years ago.
Herodotus - The historian upon whom most of what we know of this period is drawn from.
The Onomastikon - A dictionary of ancient names, from various cultures, extremely useful.
List of Greek place names - For those inevitable times when we get the modern or Latin names of places confused with what Greeks, and thus the Greek-speaking PCs would have used.
System Notes[edit]
This hack is called Mercenary, Liberator, Tyrant and you can discuss it on the thread on RPGnet. I've made some fairly extensive changes to ACKS as written, to accomodate what is a straight historical game. By that I mean there's no magic, no monsters and no dungeons. Details of the changes are listed below.
New Classes - New character classes; the Diplomat, Expert and Warlord.
Character Generation - Changes to Chapters 2-5, all of which impact on character generation in some respect.
Adventures and GM-side - Changes to Chapters 6, 9 and 10, which either impact play or the GM's side of the screen.
Please note these are all links to another page, and thus the navigation on those pages will not bring you back here.
Links[edit]
Autarch's site - The creators of Adventurer, Conqueror, King, the (heavily augmented) system we use for this game.
Hippeis - The World of Christian Cameron - Website for the author and re-enactor Christian Cameron, a major influence for the game.
Related works
Tyche's Favourites - A historical ACKS game set in Massalia 300BC.
