A silly idea to improve role-playing in our next pirate game:
King Louis XIV has decided to dramatically reduce fundings (because of the economical crisis etc) so my Governor character told his carpenters to make some false guns:
These guns will be placed on the fortress, mixed with the real guns. Players will be told that, yes, everyone knows that some of the fortress guns are wooden. This is not a secret. But which ones? Any gun (real or wooden) placed in the fortress on the gaming table could be any of them and not what it looks like.
The plan of the real and false guns locations will be secretly written on a piece of paper, and only shown to players whose characters will come near enough to have a close look at them. If there is a fighting, I'll replace the real guns and wooden guns on their real location according to the secret plan.