Interest check 17th century history?

British royalty has a stranglehold on your way of life it's presently at 20% tax or else jail time on every penny you make! Also, you must attend church Every Sunday or Else! Slavery is... a historic fact that I'm skipping over. Welcome to the Boston American Colonial time period!

One of your friends last week taught you excitedly how to make and use invisible ink last week, but after you showed your parents they said you were spending too much time with your friends, and they will pay for you to have lessons in any class even wizardry and any profession. You are just about 10 years old.

You need to do your own homework and decide for yourself what class and trade you want to learn.

This is something I have put together with other players and the direct use of history, American history. It's not perfect and I could probably spend another 4 years mastering Boston 17th century history. My game recreates the time period. I want to start with 5 players one post for each once per week and evaluate after 4 months to see how I feel about more players or running two groups.

I'm going to use Pathfinder 2.0. You start as a young apprentice whom has just chosen your first trade in Boston, Massachusetts 1745. You can choose anything you want within reason. Even dentist or locksmith. Your chosen trade grows with your character as you level up, providing special bonuses.


Sorcery or wizardry is largely frowned upon, public displays are okay and not okay outside of Boston.

Just to keep it simple on myself; Official class restrictions: Core classes only. Sorcery beyond or above level 2 is removed from the game. Wizardry above level 1 is removed from the game. This includes Bard, Druid, and Ranger magic. You can still be a Bard, Druid, Ranger, or Wizard your magic doesn't work like a dead power outlet.

Starting: You can be level 1 of any class. Restrictions are all characters must be lawful good, chaotic good, true neutral, or neutral good.

I am intrigued.

My plate is pretty full, but as an historian, I find this game very compelling. I wish you the best and would like to ask if you might make the game public? I'd like to follow along, if I can :)

Dear C1nder,

I am most honored that you would like to follow along. In truth, I am planning to follow the general format as laid out by the TV show Wishbone featuring a puppy dog going through Shakespeare's tales in summary although I plan to draw my adventures out more and make them more players direction oriented.

I do appreciate the questions under the Myself thread, so to review historic game magic.
Level 1 & 2 Sorcery exists. After that no.
Same answer for Wizard, Bard, Druid, and Ranger.
Cleric holy magic is up until Resurrection and stops there.
Paladin looks fine few limits.
Gunpowder for realism. Yes.
Reputation with magic use is a hidden point based system for each character taped to my bedroom wall. I call it "20 point line based system" it includes positive and negative points. Reach 20 points outside of Boston and you'll hear cries of "Crusify the witch" at your next spellcast.

Never played 2e PF

A Barbarian armed with a Murderer seems like jolly fun. Do we get a bonus to intimidation if our firearm weighs more than our opponent?

Just noticed the thread title says 17th century, but the game takes place in 1745 which is the 18th century. Which also ups the arsenal considerably

Remember, typical age range in that time period is 30 years at best.

If you want, I will run a separate pirates and buccaneers campaign within my game, maybe a year or two in.

As for Murderers, thanks for the reminder.

I would imagine if you actively rolled to intimidate, you could get that bonus.

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Okay, so far I have 5 watchers and 1 Barbarian player as a possibility. I like to post about 3 times per week.

Right now I only have cell phone internet. I have a bad case of the sniffles 6 weeks now, so no visits to the library internet for 60 wpm postings. :)

I have tried Discord, but I think it's unlikely with my little cell. Plus I prefer PBP to help remind me of what I did last week.

I may do an online players meet and greet kind of thing.

I do want to organize my recruiting thread perfectly with pictures. I'm deciding which ones.

A Barbarian can be a furrier, a bowman, wood carving, maybe multiclass to voidoo or something. Since your my only player.
Metalworking is restricted for cultural history reasons.

I’m none too familiar with PF2 unfortunately, but I did notice that you made some references to this being a teaching opportunity, and that you would be encouraging students to study throughout the game.

I took History at university, and while I did take some American history modules, being Irish it was mostly focused on Irish history. Curious to know what kind of stuff you’d be hoping to encourage people to study up on/teach people on!

Great image, but you’d have to lean pretty hard into the fantasy side of things to have a swivel gun as a practical personal weapon. Great little video here showing the loading and firing of such a beast. Takes two people 45 seconds to fire when it’s mounted…

The start of the United States. Legislature, as well as Colonial history with starting points from my own local historic content mixed in. Plenty of interesting stuff with the focus being to get people actively interested in reading national founding history.

So many kids these days, they don't take personal pride in their school work, in how well they memorized Hamilton or Washington. No it's more about getting their homework done so they can watch the next useless cable drama on TV this week and chat with their friends about it at lunch, and that's wrong. I believe we're losing an integral piece of American culture way of life to TV, and it might soon be gone forever.

So this is my way of practicing of trying to reinvolve families with schoolwork while keeping that fun and relax element.

Thanks for the video Harrigan!

That was greatly informative video. Only ever read about them before.