Editing 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.

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==Dramatis Personae==

''The Player Characters and their henchmen''

[[The_Wine_Dark_Sea\Anthocles |Anthocles of Syrakousai and Nesamun]] - the quartermaster and an Egyptian doctor, along with Anthocles' allies amongst the crew. Played by '''TBear'''.

[[The_Wine_Dark_Sea\Hilarion |Hilarion and Hyginos of Kypros]] - the captain of archers and his brother. Played by '''Scarik'''.

[[The_Wine_Dark_Sea\Nikandros |Nikandros and Glaukias of Athens]] - a master shipwright and his apprentice. Played by '''Carwyn'''.

[[The_Wine_Dark_Sea\Theagenes |Theagenes of Corinth and Cleitomachos of Lemnos]] - the captain of marines and a sailor. Played by '''ChalkLine'''.


''Non-player characters''

[[The_Wine_Dark_Sea\Crew |The crew roster for the ship]] -  A listing of who is aboard, under normal circumstances.

[[The_Wine_Dark_Sea\NPCs |Other NPCs of note]] - Anyone else worth remembering.


==Game Threads==

[ IC thread] - The In Character (IC) thread on RPGnet. Please note this is for the players only.<br>

[ OOC thread] - The Out of Character (OOC) thread on RPGnet. Spectators are welcome to post here.<br>

[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?715435-Tentative-Recruitment-ACKS-Historical-Mediterranean-Sea-Wolves Recruitment] - The original recruitment thread.<br>


==Setting Notes==

[[The_Wine_Dark_Sea\Maps |The Maps]] - Because where would RPGs be without maps?<br>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Persian_Wars The Greco-Persian Wars] - The defining conflicts of the age, the game takes place during the interbellum between two major phases.<br>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionian_Revolt The Ionian Revolt] - The tumult that kicked it all off, some of the PCs are veterans of those conflicts, which began 15 years ago.<br>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus Herodotus] - The historian upon whom most of what we know of this period is drawn from.<br>
[http://tekeli.li/onomastikon/Ancient-World/index.html The Onomastikon] - A dictionary of ancient names, from various cultures, extremely useful.<br>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_place_names 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.<br>


==System Notes==

This hack is called '''Mercenary, Liberator, Tyrant''' and you can discuss it on the [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?689960-ACKS-Mercenary-Liberator-Tyrant 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.

[[Tyche's_Favourites/New_Classes |New Classes]] - New character classes; the Diplomat, Expert and Warlord.<br>

[[Tyche's_Favourites/Chargen |Character Generation]] - Changes to Chapters 2-5, all of which impact on character generation in some respect.<br>

[[Tyche's_Favourites/Play |Adventures and GM-side]] - Changes to Chapters 6, 9 and 10, which either impact play or the GM's side of the screen.<br>

'''Please note these are all links to another page, and thus the navigation on those pages will not bring you back here'''.<br>



==Links==

[http://www.autarch.co/ Autarch's site] - The creators of '''Adventurer, Conqueror, King''', the (heavily augmented) system we use for this game.<br>
[http://www.hippeis.com/ Hippeis - The World of Christian Cameron] - Website for the author and re-enactor Christian Cameron, a major influence for the game.<br>


'''Related works'''

[[Tyche's_Favourites |Tyche's Favourites]] - A historical ACKS game set in Massalia 300BC. <br>