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Honor + Intrigue

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ENnies Judge's Spotlight AwardHonor + Intrigue is a new, standalone game from Basic Action Games. Inspired as much by Hollywood as by history, Honor + Intrigue pays homage to the swashbucklers of the silver screen as well as great works such as those of Dumas and Sabatini. Game Masters should feel free to use history as a source of inspiration, not a restriction. True to its inspiration, Honor + Intrigue plays fast and cinematic, leaving the focus on drama and action unfolding.  Read more about the game below.

What is Honor + Intrigue?

The game engine is based on Simon Washbourne's acclaimed"Barbarians of Lemuria" rpg, and also contains a number of new features as well, designed for the swashbuckling theme.

17th Century Adventure

Welcome to the Age of the Baroque.  It is a time when daring highwaymen ply the coach-roads, musketeers protect the king, and buccaneers cross swords on the high-seas. While the game assumes a 17th century setting, there is also advice to play it in any age from that of Elizabeth to Bonaparte, or even to make a completely fictional setting.  

Swashbuckling Action

It is a dangerous and cruel world, but fortunately there are men and women who laugh in the face of danger and fight injustice. They swing into action on chandeliers, and meet their foes with flashing steel and a sharp tongue. The action in Honor + Intrigue should be as high-flying as any swashbuckling movie. Yes, you can swing from a tapestry, crash through the window, lunge at your enemy, and parry his attack all in a single turn!

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Among the tangled webs of intrigue, friends can become bitter rivals, enemies can become allies, and lovers can betray you to your death. Rival nobles who smile cordially at one another at court plot against one another in secret, and often, heroes are caught in the middle. 

Other Features of the game include:

The power of Fortune to overcome overwhelming odds, and a system that rewards players for taking swift action.  After all, Fortune favors the bold...

Fencing rules that emphasize using maneuvers and pressing advantage over your opponent-- you don't simply take turns hitting each other.  There are also 9 Dueling Schools, each with their own unique style.

Character's  back-stories are created as a part of making the Hero, so every hero has depth.

A Gazetteer containing a brief history of the swashbuckling world, as well as a number of secret societies and powerful groups that can be joined by the heroes, or their enemies...

An optional section covering Mysteries, Horrors, & Wonders, allowing the GM to incorporate alchemy, sorcery, and clockwork-punk mad science into the game.  A number of monsters from ghost pirates and faeries to legendary creatures such as the Beast of Gévaudan and the Kraken are also detailed.

Simple dice mechanics and character creation-- so you can dive right into the 17th century action and swing from the chandelier.

Features of this PDF: 

Layering allows you to remove the background to save you ink when printing. 

Bookmarks let you jump to the section you want in a flash. 

Rules updated to coincide with the Rules Fixes + Clarifications introduced in Intriguing Options: Rules + Story. These files have the word "Revised" in the filename. 

A second "Compressed" or "Tablet Version" PDF intended for reading on your tablet or smartphone. 

An additional PDF with character sheets made for printing as you like.  Full Color to Basic Black & White are supported. Form-fillable sheets may be downloaded separately as well.

Support for the Honor + Intrigue Line

If you like our game and want to discuss it or play with folks online, come down to the Basic Action Games Discord server.

While everything you need to play Honor + Intrigue is in this book, there is also a line of support products you can use with your campaign including the Tome of Intriguing Options which combines everything in the Intriguing Options Series 1-4 with the rules from the Duelist's Guide plus more! But if you prefer to add material piecemeal, the individual Intriguing Options volumes remain available.

Tome of Intriguing Options CoverIntriguing Options 2 CoverIntriguing Options 3 CoverIntriguing Options 4 CoverDuelist's Guide Cover

Dueling Maneuver Cards CoverGM Screen Inserts Cover

 







Intriguing Options 1: Rules + Story gives lots of new optional and alternate rules to use with your campaign, as well as story ideas to insert into your campaign.

Intriguing Options 2: Blasters + Intrigue focuses on taking your campaign to the stars. This volume is a primer on running a swashbuckling Blasters + Intrigue campaign set in a space opera or other sci-fi setting.

Intriguing Options 3: Nonhuman Characters focuses on expanding your available cast of characters for sci-fi and fantasy swashbuckling. It includes guidelines and tools to help you build your own fantasy and science fiction folk as well as over 50 sample PC ancestries.

Intriguing Options 4: Spells + Spellcasters introduces an alternate high-fantasy magic system which brings wizards, paladins, druids, psionicists, and other spellcasters to your campaign. Includes 140+ spells, 80 magic items, and 11 "Swordcaster" dueling styles.

The Duelist's Guide is the expansion that focuses on dueling with new Maneuvers, guidelines for making your own, all 19 previously published dueling styles plus 17 new ones, guidelines for making your own dueling styles, lasting injury rules, and an adventure.

Dueling Maneuver Cards is a print and play aid for players that want to have every dueling maneuver at their fingertips. Includes all repartee and maneuvers published in the Duelist's Guide and Gambits from Intriguing Options 1.

GM Screen Inserts 11 landscape pages for use with a pocketed GM screen. Available in color or black and white. 




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Antonio M March 02, 2024 2:19 pm UTC
Can I share the watermarked PDF file?
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September 16, 2023 4:35 pm UTC
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A good chunk of the bookmarks in the blue cover version of the core rulebook send the reader to the index instead of the relevant page(s). The other versions of the same book do not seem to suffer from this issue.
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Chris R September 16, 2023 4:57 pm UTC
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Thanks for spotting that. I just redownloaded both blue cover versions, and the bookmarks do work fine-- however it seems there is a duplicate set of bookmarks, where the second set just goes to the index. I will fix this, but in the meantime, if you use only the first set of bookmarks, they should work okay.
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Seth P November 07, 2023 5:13 pm UTC
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Is this what the 8/8/23 update was for?
I just got my hardcopy a couple months before that, hoping it isn't missing something important that was added
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Frederick M September 16, 2023 7:04 am UTC
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I accidently clicked the Hardcover, B&W option instead of the Watermarked PDF + Hardcover, B&W Option when I made my purchase (even though they are the same price).

Is there any possible way that I can get the PDF added on as well?
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Chandler B September 13, 2023 10:22 pm UTC
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Seems there was a discount many years ago for Talk Like a Pirate Day. Was that done other years, or just that once?
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Chris R September 14, 2023 5:30 pm UTC
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Avast! Ye forgot to talk like a pirate! But if ye wait till the accorded day, ye'll find the treasure:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?discount=9423493dba
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Chandler B September 14, 2023 10:35 pm UTC
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Alas, I let me spyglass fog over! This be a jolly omen; may ye haul in many pieces of eight!
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James L August 12, 2023 12:36 am UTC
Each career has multiple alternate titles. In most cases, it doesn't matter, but with some, there are mechanical effects (Magician/Astrologer and membership in some Martial Orders/Powerful Groups/Secret Societies). In the Lulu version, it was never specified if characters were intended to be able to take alternate versions of the "same" Career. Was this addressed in any of the updates?
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Chris R August 12, 2023 4:45 am UTC
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It isn't specified anywhere; that seems like the sort of thing that would be a GM call. For instance, I would be fine with someone taking Pugilist and Duelist if they had a good reason to take both.
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James L August 12, 2023 7:25 pm UTC
That's sensible. Thanks for the quick response.
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Michael S April 05, 2023 12:28 am UTC
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I bought the Lulu POD a couple years ago. Is there a list of what’s been changed in this version?
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Chris R April 05, 2023 1:07 am UTC
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A Crossbow or Dagger gives +1 Damage when
performing a Called Shot, not +1 to Hit.

Unarmed Attacks should only add half Might
Bonus to damage (like thrown weapons do).
Otherwise, they are too strong. But keep
Choke/Crush damage as is (it should be deadly).
The GM may allow those with unarmed-focused
Dueling Styles to add their full Might bonus to
brawling damage.

On Page 52, under “Black Powder Weapons”
change “At point-blank range (+1), firearms do
+1d6 damage.” to “When the shooter is adjacent
to the target, firearms do +1d6 damage”.

On Page 114, at the end of “The 2d10 Dice System”
first paragraph, there is a section that reads: “A
Bonus Die adds +1 to the damage. Called shots do
+2 damage for every -1 taken to hit.” This section
belongs in the next column at the end of the first
paragraph on “Fixed Damage”.
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Robert H March 02, 2023 1:39 am UTC
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I too will be ordering the POD once it's available.
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Chris R March 02, 2023 2:22 am UTC
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With luck, you won't have to wait too much longer. I got a proof that looked wonderful... and then I realized I forgot to change the art credits. So I fixed it and will hopefully be able to get another proof soon. Once that arrives if it looks good, we will make it available.
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Chris R March 17, 2023 10:39 pm UTC
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In case you missed the announcement, the wait is over. It is available in hardcover as Print-on-Demand!
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Kevin B December 07, 2022 4:17 pm UTC
Once POD is available, I'll buy for sure... I love a print copy
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Chris R March 17, 2023 10:41 pm UTC
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In case you missed the announcement, it is available in hardcover as Print-on-Demand now.
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Benjamin N November 14, 2022 4:45 am UTC
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I noticed mention of a PoD version being released soon. Is there an estimation of when we can expect it?
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Chris R December 01, 2022 3:58 am UTC
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After many setbacks, I am glad to say that I have ordered a proof copy. If all goes well, it should be available in POD once again.
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Christoph W September 24, 2022 1:23 pm UTC
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Hey, in your 2d10 variant you set the TN to 12, but shouldn't it be 14?

2d6 TN9 27,78%, 2d10 TN14 28%, but 2d10 TN12 45%.

Did I miss something? Great game by the way!
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Chris R September 24, 2022 8:42 pm UTC
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Thank you. By math, you may be correct for a straight roll, but Bonus Die and Penalty Die do complicate things. In playtesting 14 and even 13 seemed to be too high a bar, and 12 ended up seeming like "the sweet spot". The point of the optional rule is not to offer the exact same odds. The optional rule is intended to extend longevity of the game, so that characters with low modifiers are not completely unable to succeed and characters with high modifiers still have a chance to fail (which gives us some suspense to every roll).

Cheers!
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Christoph W September 25, 2022 6:49 am UTC
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I see, thank you!
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Seth P August 13, 2022 3:07 pm UTC
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Just went to buy this, but no print version?
I don't do PDFs if I can help it.
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Seth P August 13, 2022 3:19 pm UTC
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Actually found it in softcover, but how do I know if it's the most recent version?
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Chris R August 13, 2022 5:51 pm UTC
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The softcover book is *not* updated yet. Making changes to a printed book is usually a weeks-long process because it involves not only changing the base files (which are separate from the straight-to-PDF release), but also ordering proofs, waiting for the proofs, and then possibly repeating the process if the proof doesn't turn out.
I will update it, but it will take time. When it becomes available, the word "Revised" will be in the title description to clarify the difference. The changes are very minor, but it is understandable to want to most up-to-date version for your table.
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Seth P August 13, 2022 7:08 pm UTC
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Thanks for the response. Appreciate it! I'll hold off then.
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George F September 05, 2022 8:15 pm UTC
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I'll jump ion on this when a PoD is available.
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Chris R March 17, 2023 10:43 pm UTC
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In case you missed the announcement, it is available in hardcover as Print-on-Demand now.
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Seth P March 28, 2023 6:19 pm UTC
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Totally missed it so thanks for the heads up!
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Chris R April 04, 2023 9:46 pm UTC
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In case you missed it, it is for sale in hardcover (blue cover) here in Print on Demand. Lulu has it in softcover (original cover), and it has since been updated; so the inside of both books is the same; only the covers are different.
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An E July 23, 2022 4:28 pm UTC
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PDF page 6, second Duel column, "6-8 Duelist's Choice (of melee weapon)" and "8-9 Daggers." Is it supposed to be 6-7 or is daggers supposed to be just 9?
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An E July 23, 2022 7:48 pm UTC
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Ignore this. Meant for Intriguing Options Volume 1
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Matt M July 15, 2022 6:34 pm UTC
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Which of the files is the most recent version, HonorIntrigue_Final.pdf or HonorIntrigue_Revised.pdf?
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Chris R July 16, 2022 4:00 am UTC
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You want one with the word "Revised" in the filename. I had tried changing the filenames of the older versions to include the word "Original" to distinguish them, but I guess it didn't work.
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Phillip G May 29, 2022 11:35 pm UTC
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The fillable character sheet is not fillable.
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Chris R June 02, 2022 7:19 pm UTC
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That is so strange; it was working when I uploaded it, but after being uploaded and redownloading it, it does not seem to be working properly. Once it is downloaded it "flattens" and ceases to be form-fillable. I am currently trying to figure out a workaround for this. You can download a form-fillable version here in the meantime: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ms55gHbj12DK8olPYm33shoHNB-oq28z/view?usp=sharing
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Chris R June 02, 2022 7:32 pm UTC
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Also, even though I deleted the broken "Form Fillable" sheet from the product listing, it seems to keep showing up. But when I go to edit the product listing, it is not appearing among the downloadable files. It appears to be some sort of glitch that it is still showing up.
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Chris R May 05, 2023 10:13 pm UTC
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So we have a new option for that now!
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/436648/Honor--Intrigue-Form-Fillable-Character-Sheets
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Jim M February 23, 2022 6:23 pm UTC
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The Lulu link does not appear to work.
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Chris R February 24, 2022 4:09 am UTC
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Thanks for letting me know; I think something changed at Lulu, so the print needs to be reauthorized. I'm working on it.
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Chris R February 24, 2022 4:21 am UTC
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I did have to order a new proof copy as part of the update process, so it will be about 2 weeks before it arrives and I can clear it for sale again.
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Chris R March 09, 2022 7:43 am UTC
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Okay, it is back on Lulu. Easy to search for by title now.
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Jim M March 10, 2022 4:25 pm UTC
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Wonderful! Thank you!
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