Lead Adventure Forum

Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: Tom Reed on 25 June 2010, 02:26:12 PM

Title: Jack of All Trades
Post by: Tom Reed on 25 June 2010, 02:26:12 PM

I just got the DVD set and have been rewatching the episodes. Has anyone ever tried to do this as a game? I think it could be very cool.  I think that Gloire would work great. There is so much stuff that you could do. You have Jack Styles/The Daring Dragoon, Ben Franklin, Kentucky Sue, Blackbeard the Pirate, etc.

Title: Re: Jack of All Trades
Post by: twrchtrwyth on 02 July 2010, 02:50:04 PM

Never heard of this. Do you have a link to some background on the series?

Title: Re: Jack of All Trades
Post by: colin_baillie on 02 July 2010, 02:57:38 PM

Was that series not set during the Napoleonic wars?

Title: Re: Jack of All Trades
Post by: Conquistador on 02 July 2010, 04:05:47 PM

http://www.hulu.com/jack-of-all-trades

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220906/

http://www.amazon.com/Jack-All-Trades-Bruce-Campbell/dp/B000FJH5MC

Gracias,

Glenn

Title: Re: Jack of All Trades
Post by: twrchtrwyth on 02 July 2010, 10:19:35 PM

Bruce Campbell is in it, that's all I need to know. It must be great. :)

Title: Re: Jack of All Trades
Post by: Centaur_Seducer on 03 July 2010, 12:22:38 PM

Jack of All Trades is one of those great series that didn't get enought attention.
Its an american take on 18th centuary, with all the Hollywood tackiness involved (Marquez de Sade in S&M suit anyone).
Great buy!
And I've also considered doing some tabletop adventuring based on the series. Didn't find enough suitable figures thoug (it was 5 years ago so stuff has changed).

Title: Re: Jack of All Trades
Post by: mweaver on 03 July 2010, 03:20:04 PM

I confess I have never heard of it before.  I'll have to check it out.

Title: Re: Jack of All Trades
Post by: white knight on 03 July 2010, 04:30:55 PM

I must confess I never watched it when they aired it here years ago. All the cheesyness in the first episode put me off at the time. It'd be interesting to rewatch it with different eyes, I guess.

Title: Re: Jack of All Trades
Post by: Cory on 03 July 2010, 05:15:25 PM

Verne Troyer's role as Napolean is the ebst part of the series.

Closest we came to gaming it was in a South Pacific based pulp game we added Ghost of the Daring Dragoon as one of the event cards.

Title: Re: Jack of All Trades
Post by: Matakakea on 05 July 2010, 06:04:39 PM

It was released at the same time as Cleopatra 2525. Whichever series got the best ratings was to get the funds for further series. Naturally the series with the scantilly cald female warriors got the ratings  :D

Title: Re: Jack of All Trades
Post by: bandit86 on 06 July 2010, 05:40:12 AM

The series is on hulu if you can get that.
http://www.hulu.com/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220906/

Title: Re: Jack of All Trades
Post by: richarDISNEY on 06 July 2010, 02:50:28 PM

Tons of fun  as a series.  But please remember...  It went for the cheesy/campy factor right form the start...

Never gamed it before, but I did use the Dragoon as a character for one of my games...