The Wine Dark Sea - Revision history

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	==Dramatis Personae==		==Dramatis Personae==

	~~[[The_Wine_Dark_Sea\PCs \|~~The Player Characters]]		''The Player Characters and their henchmen''

	[[The_Wine_Dark_Sea\		[[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.

Kiero at 22:45, 16 February 2014

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

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

Kiero at 22:29, 16 February 2014

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	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.		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/Chargen \|Character Generation]] - Changes to Chapters 2-5, all of which impact on character generation in some respect.		[[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 both links to another page, and thus the navigation on those pages will not bring you back here'''.<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.~~

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==Dramatis Personae==

[[The_Wine_Dark_Sea\PCs |The Player Characters]]

[[The_Wine_Dark_Sea\

==Game Threads==

[ 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. 

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

==Setting Notes==

[[The_Wine_Dark_Sea\Maps |The Maps]] - Because where would RPGs be without maps? 
[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. 
[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. 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus Herodotus] - The historian upon whom most of what we know of this period is drawn from. 
[http://tekeli.li/onomastikon/Ancient-World/index.html The Onomastikon] - A dictionary of ancient names, from various cultures, extremely useful. 
[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. 

==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/Chargen |Character Generation]] - Changes to Chapters 2-5, all of which impact on character generation in some respect.

[[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.

==Links==

[http://www.autarch.co/ Autarch's site] - The creators of '''Adventurer, Conqueror, King''', the (heavily augmented) system we use for this game. 
[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. 

'''Related works'''

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