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Take the King’s Shilling! 

Do you get a shiver up your spine when you hear Richard Sharpe screaming at his men to fire four rounds a minute? Do the words ‘Beat to quarters and run out the guns!’ fill you with excitement? Do you enjoy a good bodice ripping yarn of daring-do?

Duty and Honour is a role-playing game that puts you and your friends in the roles of the men who fought during the Napoleonic Wars. However this is not the bloody, gritty and torrid reality of these harsh battles – rather it is told from the perspective of the thrilling works of fiction that has built up around this time.

Remarkably both Duty & Honour and the 1809 Miscellany are currently out of print. This is something I will be resolving in the very near future. However, due to circumstances beyond my control I have had to also suspend sales through Lulu for the next few days. I apologise for any inconvenience that this make cause customers seeking the printed version of the book. I believe that Patriot Games and Black Lion Games may have copies currently.

Much to my surprise, Duty & Honour has been nominated for the Best New Roleplaying Game Award at UK Games Expo 2009 (which is being held this weekend in Birmingham).

The voting is split between a voting panel of judges from the convention and a public vote from attendees at the convention. SO, if you are going to UK Games Expo this weekend (and lets face it, if you can, you should because its a great con) and you like Duty & Honour, please consider voting for it!?

I’d be remiss to mention that there are some other great games in the category including ‘3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars’ by Gregor Hutton of Box Ninja, ‘Dragon Warriors’ from Mongoose and ‘Hellfrost’ from Triple Ace.

Megan, staff reviewer at One Book Shelf just posted a very thorough five star review of D&H. You can read it here

 

The Duty & Honour 1809 Miscellany will be launched at UK Games Expo in Birmingham on June 6th 2009. This 80-page perfect bound softback collects the contents of the previous Almanacs, the Duelling rules from the Collective Endeavour Journal and adds new material including a guide to adventuring in London, ready-to-use player characters and three adventures (’The Last Stand of the 22nd’,'Cadiz or Bust!’ and ‘The City of Vipers’). Priced at £6 it will be available at the Collective Endeavour stall and then on Lulu and rpgnow.com from the following week.

The fourth edition of the Duty & Honour Almanac is now available. In this edition we look at the time your character spent before the game begins. It includes suggestions for previous careers under each Social Class, a guide to British Army deployments, examples of Previous Military Experiences and possible items and curios your character could have amassed. You can download the almanac here

The second print of Duty & Honour, incorporating the recently published errata, is now in stock for direct sales. To secure a copy, please paypal £12+£2 p&p to vodkashok@gmail.com.

Mark Rabuck reviews D&H on his blog, De Nerdibus.

Nothing is perfect … and that adage applies to the first printing of Duty & Honour! There were a couple of typos which slipped through the cracks and a number of rules which have subsequently needed to be tightened up and explained better than they were in the original printing. Therefore, I have uploaded a new version of the game (known here as the 1809 Edition) to Lulu and rpgnow and its affiliates. I’ve also ordered a new batch of printed versions of the game so this will be the edition that is on sale from now on.

For those of you which purchased the original version of the game, an errata sheet is available to download here

Duty & Honour has had its first rpg.net review and received a 3 Style, 5 Substance rating. You can read the review here

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