The 7th Sea: Khitai Kickstarter is half-done.

7th Sea: Khitai ticking along reasonably well, in fact. It’s not going to hit the original 7th Sea’s Kickstarter numbers, of course, but then the odds of that monster success being replicated were always going to be low. Mind you, if it was a new edition of Legend of the Five Rings we’d be seeing a completely different situation in place*.

I do have to admit: if I had a spare grand or so I’d be kind of tempted to port in my favorite 7th Sea character. Liam O’Lathlann (not O’Toole). Like my wife’s character, he was a Finnegan boxer; unlike my wife’s character, Liam was convinced that he was some kind of bizarre martial artist / monk / bard multi-class character who could jump off of walls and hit you sixteen times before landing.  Mostly because my dice loved that character, and I got inside my GM’s decision loop early, and often**.

Good times, good times.

Moe Lane

*Fantasy Flight Games (the company who owns the IP these days) is open beta testing the rules for a new editionof L5R.  I assume that they’ll Kickstart a print run, because who doesn’t like having your customers pay in advance for you to create, edit, support, and expand your product? I also assume that I will be screaming and throwing my money at it, because I know me.

**There’s a trick to being a successful cheese-monkey, and that’s to be more about the cheese-monkeying for the sake of cheese-monkeying than it is to have a specific goal much beyond Are you not entertained? It’s amazing how much a nonsense GM will forgive if you’re actively trying to keep his plot on track. Likewise, players rarely complain when your over-the-top antics save their butts, especially if you take a good hit or two in the process. You just have to be smart about it.