All tasks in Fuzion are resolved the same way: take your most relevant CHARACTERISTIC, add to it your most relevant SKILL, and add a die roll to your total. Compare the resulting value to a Difficulty Value (either the total of your opponents' CHARACTERISTIC +SKILL + roll or a value determined by the GM). If you equal or exceed the DV, then the action is a success.
Talking is a free action, but monologues are not.
Historical Slang - here is a list of common sayings heard in the 1890s
ducky: OK, alright. "Everything was just ducky between them."
hansom: a kind of horse-drawn carriage designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom. Low, two-wheeled, closed carriage whose distinctive feature was the elevated driver's seat in the rear. It was entered from the front through a folding door and had one seat above the axle with room for two passengers. The driver spoke to the passengers through a trapdoor on top. "Let's grab a hansom."
port-sider: left-hander. "Lefty is a port-sider that right-handed batters can't hit."
skunked: to swindle or cheat. "John skunked Franklin out of $5."
tanked up: drunk, intoxicated. "He was so tanked up last night that he couldn't find his way home."
Notable Cabals - small groups of secret plotters, as against a government or person in authority.
Sword That Has Been Drawn - a cabal which claims to have ties to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, this group is headquartered in London, and has dedicated itself to the elimination of supernatural threats wherever it finds them.
Glenluaithre Scotch - the most peat-filled scotch in the world. "It’s a man’s drink, so drink up, ya wee nutty boy!"
Sebastian James Brandy - "A sophisticated brandy for a sophisticated time for a sophisticated person who lives in a sophisticated home…"
The following is a list of noted personalities that might be encountered during the campaign and can be included as contacts for the player during character generation. Names listed in italics are fictional characters but are considered real for the purposes of this campaign.
Ernst Abbe
Alexander III, Emperor of Russia
Susan B. Anthony
Svante Arrhenius
Aubrey Beardsley
Antoine Henri Becquerel
Alexander Graham Bell
Annie Wood Besant
Ambrose Bierce
Antionette Brown Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell
Algernon Blackwood
Nellie Bly
Franz Boas
Lizzie Borden
William Jennings Bryan
Martha Jane Canary
Andrew Carnegie
Paul Cézanne
Professor Challenger
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Sir William Henry Christie
Winston Spencer Churchill
Grover Cleveland
Aleister Edward Crowley
Marie Curie
Pierre Curie
Richard Harding Davis
Sir James Dewar
Dorothy Dix
Arthur Conan Doyle
Antonin Dvorak
George Eastman
Thomas Alva Edison
Sigmund Freud
Henry Clay Frick
Paul Gauguin
William Schwenk Gilbert
Maksim Gorky
William Russell Grace
George Ellery Hale
Thomas Hardy
Jonathan Harker
William Randolph Hearst
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Sherlock Holmes
Harry Houdini
Engelbert Humperdinck
Sir Henry Irving
James Henry
Sir Leander Starr Jameson
Dr. Henry Jekyll
Rudyard Kipling
Herbert Kitchener
Paul Kruger
Pope Leo XIII
Percival Lowell
Ernst Mach
Arthur Machen
Guglielmo Marconi
William McKinley
Professor Anna Mesmer
Claude Oscar Monet
Sir John Murray
Fridtjof Nansen
Ransom Eli Olds
Robert Edwin Peary
Camille Pissaro
Marcel Proust
Joseph Pulitzer
Sir William Ramsay
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
Theodore Roosevelt
George Bernard Shaw
John Philip Sousa
Bram Stoker
Richard Strauss
Arthur Seymore Sullivan
William Ashley Sunday
Nikola Tesla
Count Leo Tolstoi
Arturo Toscanini
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Mark Twain
Abraham Van Helsing
Jules Verne
Booker Taliaferro Washington
Herbert George Wells
Oscar Willis Wilde
William II, Emperor of Germany
William Butler Yeats
Denton True Young
Emile Zola
This is the list of the national rulers in the world during the 1890s. They are the heads of state and heads of government. In some cases, they are de facto leaders not occupying either of those positions or prime ministers who are not heads of government.
Austria-Hungary (Emperor)
Francis Joseph 1867 -
Belgium (Monarch)
Leopold II 1865 -
Brazil (President)
Manuel Deodoro de Fonesco 1889 - 1891
Floriano Peixoto 1891 - 1894
Prudente Jose de Moraes Barros 1894 - 1898
Manuel Ferraz de Campos Salles 1898 -
Canada (Prime Minister)
Frederick Stanley 1888
John Gordon 1893 - 1898
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmond 1898 -
Chile (President)
Jose Manuel Balmaceda 1886 - 1891
Jorge Montt 1891 -
China (Emperor)
Kuang Hsu 1875 -
France (President)
Marie Francois Sadi Carnot 1887 - 1894
Jean Paul Pierre Casimir-Perier 1894 - 1895
Francois Felix Faure 1895 - 1899
Emile Loubet 1899 -
Germany and Prussia (Monarch)
William II 1888-
Great Britain (Monarch)
Victoria 1837-
Great Britain (Prime Minister)
Marquees of Salisbury 1886 - 1892
William E. Gladstone 1892 - 1894
Earl of Rosebery 1894 - 1895
Marquees of Salisbury 1895 -
Italy (Monarch)
Humbert I 1878 -
Japan (Emperor)
Mutsuhito (Meiji Tenno) 1867 -
Japan (Prime Minister)
Ito Hirobumi 1885 -
Mexico (President)
Porfirio Diaz 1887 -
Norway and Sweden (Monarch)
Oscar II 1872 -
Portugal (Monarch)
Carlos I 1889 -
Russia (Emperor)
Alexander III 1881 - 1894
Nicholas II 1894 -
Spain (Monarch)
Alfonso XIII 1886 -
Turkish Empire (Sultan)
Abdul Hamid II 1876 -
United States of America (President)
Benjamin Harrison 1889 - 1893
Grover Cleveland 1893 - 1897
William McKinley 1897 -