What’s the Story?

The Victorian Era of mine (as opposed to the official reign of Queen Victoria of England at the end of 19th century) is merely an associate version of the Era.

The Victorian Mood of my upcoming campaign should be something like… Ballroom dances and dark, foggy London Streets where there are only a few lanterns to light the way. In the smog there are always places to hide nearly everything and nearly every deed may be hidden behind style and fake smiles. Lies and beauty are the most important aspects: ugly and natural things are the only evil there is. (see Victorian Winter by Asaenath, for Victorian beauty) Ours is in fact the romantic version of ”true” Victorian London.

Then there’s the other part: etiquette. It will be strict and strongly formal. Those not following the etiquette are seen as rude and that shall not be tolerated inside the fiction. Still the etiquette shall be something like that in an article in Victorian Bazaar. Nothing that the players couldn’t cope with that is. Those characters who live in social (upper class) circles shall have any problems to even insult someone right way. I hope players can come up with many interesting quirks and other ”etiquettish” things that make a richer and more vivid game world, at least I shall play a little with this part of the Victorian society. Clothing (as little as possible visible beneath it) and rules of conduct shall be important, but… probably not overdone anyways.

Target mood is anyways something like Gild-a-Lily’s Gather the Rose of Love . Fine and elegant, but the only moon on the sky is the one of the closest lamps for the nature itself is an abomination of a sort. That is the background of our story. Next time I shall present you some of the story itself. I hope I made myself clear enough.

Hail the Queen of England!

Special thanks to artists Gild-a-Lily (http://gild-a-lily.deviantart.com) and Asaenath (http://asaenath.deviantart.com/) for the permissions to mention their pictures, and the inspiration I was given by their pieces of art.

And in case somebody finds more inspirational material for Victorian campaign, I am more than happy to include it in my plans.

A way to start…

Ok. I am now starting a new bloggy-thingy (sorry my Americanese) and thus should maybe present something for you to enjoy. To start with I shall proudly present a system of the new roleplaying (or role playing if you prefer) I will start shortly (in a dozen days or so).

But for now… for not to miss a bus, see you all.