Beyond Battles: Overlooked History for World-Builders
Summary:
This interactive seminar explores ways you can enrich your games & fiction by riffing on historical events that other world-builders overlook.
Description:
We will look at the interplay between rulers and religious authority from ancient Egypt to the Protestant Reformation; dynastic thinking such as Charlemagne's succession and the union of Aragon and Castille; and how a population boom led to the founding of a real thieves' guild in Renaissance London. The emphasis is on western Europe with examples from other world cultures. The audience is encouraged to ask questions and offer comments.
London, 1570. Doctor John Dee, royal astrologer to Queen Elizabeth, has disappeared! You are 1 of the foremost magicians of the realm, who have been called by Doctor Dee's mother to investigate.
Description:
This is a sneak preview of a new Fate-based historical fantasy RPG that is in development.
In this adventure you will play a wizard and use your powers of divination to investigate the disappearance of famed astrologer and royal advisor Doctor Dee. Who is responsible? A rival wizard? Spanish spies? Perhaps Doctor Dee's search for magic led him to transgress against the fairy King and Queen, Oberon and Titania (familiar from Shakespeare's plays, which in this world are more like documentaries). Did he get into trouble because he knew too little of some supernatural danger ... or too much?
A brief introduction to the Fate Core rules will be provided. We have developed a detailed magic system for this setting based on sixteenth-century astrology, alchemy, conjuration, and folk magic.
London, 1570. Doctor John Dee, royal astrologer to Queen Elizabeth, has disappeared! You are 1 of the foremost magicians of the realm, who have been called by Doctor Dee's mother to investigate.
Description:
This is a sneak preview of a new Fate-based historical fantasy RPG that is in development.
In this adventure you will play a wizard and use your powers of divination to investigate the disappearance of famed astrologer and royal advisor Doctor Dee. Who is responsible? A rival wizard? Spanish spies? Perhaps Doctor Dee's search for magic led him to transgress against the fairy King and Queen, Oberon and Titania (familiar from Shakespeare's plays, which in this world are more like documentaries). Did he get into trouble because he knew too little of some supernatural danger ... or too much?
A brief introduction to the Fate Core rules will be provided. We have developed a detailed magic system for this setting based on sixteenth-century astrology, alchemy, conjuration, and folk magic.