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Yeah. I like Jane Austen as a writer, but I am never going to run a Jane Austen game. It's good to see something like this doing well though. A diverse ecosystem of games is a healthy ecosystem of games.I am pleased that this exists (or will exist, anyway). Odds are I will never ever play it though.
I'd like to see an Edgar Allan Poe RPG or maybe a Mario Puzo RPG (especially his Mafia books).
Never read Jane Austen, so I can't make a call on this one. It looks good though.
a Mario Puzo RPG (especially his Mafia books).
I had forgotten about this game. Does anyone have any experience with it and its system?Ask and ye shall receive, courtesy of our own BedrockBrendan
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/135272/Crime-Network
Holy shit, I was looking for that as recently as last week. Back in the 90's a friend showed me his copy that he had just picked up at I-CON, and the other day I was wondering whatever happened to it. I particularly remember the bit about saving your game by calling the operator from a payphone to let them know.This RPG, of course.
...the Don Delillo RPG...
Holy shit, I was looking for that as recently as last week. Back in the 90's a friend showed me his copy that he had just picked up at I-CON, and the other day I was wondering whatever happened to it. I particularly remember the bit about saving your game by calling the operator from a payphone to let them know.
That makes sense for this guy.The one copy I saw came with Buttery Wholesomeness, the one and only HoL RPG supplement.
You forgot spearthrowers, bows and bread, and I might be misremembering, but I think they managed the skis as well!Yes. The books are quite good if you like prehistory as a setting, although stop before The Plains of Passage. Also if you have a low tolerance for Mary Sues the main character will annoy you, what with discovering fire and inventing domestication of animals, agriculture and the central banking system singlehandedly[1].
[1] I'm exaggerating about the banking.
Yeah, that one was fun, though in our case it was fun due to irreverably mocking the source material...I had a blast with the Wuthering Heights RPG
Any way to get your SO to play is a good one, Mankcam! Man up and brew some nice tea, dammit only add cyanide if you really hate Mr. Darcy!Well my missus is into Poldark at present...it's not all that disimilar to Austen's work...perhaps I could get her into rpgs with this one...
Although I'm not sure I can sit through too many afternoons of Tea at Two o'clock with Mr Darcy while the other kids are outside hacking and slaying heh heh
Since when do we need LSD for that?!?When you do that much LSD, EVERYTHING is an RPG...
And let's not forget Chinese historical novels, which always get me in the mood for sweet and spicy...or at least for an evening with roast meat and wine!Nikos Kazantzakis, too. Can't read his books without getting hungry.
I only took a more detailed look there now. Those expansions look class, e.g. Lady Susan PI.Good Society: A Jane Austen RPG - Reprint & New Deck, via @Kickstarter
I only took a more detailed look there now. Those expansions look class, e.g. Lady Susan PI.
I didn't even know this has a print edition!Got my hardcopy today, now to figure out which hack my wife will be interested in playing...
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I've been trying since I got my copy from the first KS to get friends to play this... No luck, so far.
I did get the new expansion deck, though, with the hope that SOMEDAY I'll eventually get to run the game.
I'm thinking of hacking it for a slightly edgier classic novelist more to my taste, like Thomas Hardy or Turgenev.
Believe it or not I'm a bit of a fan of P&P it's a great romance story. I've not read the book I must confess. I've only seen the famous BBC adaption. I do actually like a lot of historical English drama. Jane Eyre would be another one (C. Bronte).
That said, I can't see myself playing something like this tbh. Being anyway 'romantic' in an RPG I'd personally find it very difficult (I'd be far too shy). I'd find it far easier to play an investigator or brawler. However, this is cool if you're into that type of romantic intrigue.
I must show this to my misses she got me into P&P many moons ago.
Cheers for the link.I've always liked Austen for her excellent prose, characterization and plotting.
The downfall for me are the happy endings which are just a shade too smug although I get they're comedies. But I think I like my comedies with more edge like in Dickens, Sterne or Thackery.
I was a bigger fan of the romantic gothics of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, or the novels of Edith Wharton (and Scorsese's excellent film adaptation of The Age of Innocence).
There's a free, online game for Wuthering Height here that looks quite good:
wuthering heights
unseelie.org
Now that I think of it an rpg of Tristram Shandy could work if you use the really good Winterbottom film adaptation as inspiration and run it with the Ghostbusters ruleset!
There's a free, online game for Wuthering Height here that looks quite good:
wuthering heights
unseelie.org
Thanks for this! As you say it will be great for idea mining.There's also the excellent Betrothals and Betrayals, which is Austen mixed with gothic supernatural. It's a LARP but people might be able to cannibalise ideas - http://sdc.rpg.net.nz/files/2011/BetrothalsAndBetrayals.pdf
If Dallas wasn't a PvP, player driven narrative story-game with fate points to undo things don't know what is. To this day not sure who shot JR not that I care but many sure did.From the looks of the videos I'm guessing the authors were probably born 20 years after the last time Dallas was even on the air
To this day not sure who shot JR