It's the latter that Kidd heavily mined for material for Lace & Steel, his very own game of swashbuckling fantasy, and yes, that does mean you can play a half-horse musketeer. The author was one Paul Kidd, of whom I have writted before and the art was all by the inestimable Donna Barr, creator of the 'Desert Peach' (Rommel's gay younger brother), 'Hader and the Colonel' (harpy soldier and a magical rabbit) and 'Stinz' (German half-horses, NOT centaurs, they don't like being called that). Good word, must remember that.Īnyway, it inspired me to go rooting around under the bed and haul out one of the overlooked gems in my RPG collection, namely 'Lace & Steel', published in 1989(ish) by The Australian Games Group. The Wife and I enjoy it, it probably has Dumas aficionados screaming and it's complete tosh, but it's entertaining swashbuckling tosh. I gather it's been given the go-ahead for a second series, without Peter 'mad eyes' Capaldi as Richelieu (apparently he's rather busy inside a blue police box or something) but nevertheless good news. Frankly you might just as well call it 'Musketeers of the Caribbean' and be done with it, but it's still fun, one of the few things we will actually make time to catch when it's broadcast rather than pick it up on the Catch-up service we have here. And thank you Blackadder series 1 episode 6 'The Black Seal'.īeen watching the new 'Musketeers' series on the TV of late.

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