Votan: the “metaplot” is all post-loaded. Its 15th-century England, with fantasy elements amped up. It is not a world sort-of made to look a bit like 15th century england, like Westeros is. But in terms of the people and events, it is very much true to history. Dan: It’s alternate in that magic is real (and demon-summoning rules are based off of real medieval demon-summoning concepts like the Goetia), in that there are monsters, in that Clerics have miracles, and that Frog-men have taken over the frankish lands on the continent. (Question pause after Votan’s question.) How did you balance this in the book? Or do yu leave that up to each user? But meta-plot can also be a burden (*cough* vampire *cough). The war of the roses has fantastic potential for meta-plot. It’s based off the same event Martin based GoT off of. Yes, Dark Albion does have a fairly Game of Thrones feel to it, if you want to run it that way. How “alternate” is this alternate history? And an NPC chapter detailing the major families that played in the war.
Then it has a chronology chapter which gives a point-form year-by-year coverage of the whole Rose War. It provides a region-by-region overview of Albion, with many of its weirdnesses based on real medieval folk-tales. It’s similar in some ways to Pendragon’s “Great Pendragon Campaign”. Also, a conversion appendix for Fantastic Heroes & Witchery.
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However, the book does also have the “Appendix P” rules which are like a whole new old-school mod you can super-impose on any OSR game to make it awesome. so would you say this is more of a sourcebook or an adventure module? This means it’s also easy to convert to 5e or to other non-D&D fantasy games. In the setting section, any rules-stuff is kept intentionally generic enough to be suitable for any old-school system. Of the 275 pages, most of it is setting-material, only about 20% is rules. The bulk of the book is dedicated to the setting. How does that work? Is it designed to work with any OSR system? So let’s see… You say it’s system-neutral OSR.
It’s already gotten some very favorable reviews: (Link: ) Dark Albion is my newest book, and it’s a gritty system-neutral OSR setting for an alternate England during the War of the Roses. I Consulted on various RPGs, including Doctor Who, Corporia, and D&D 5e. I’m also famous as an RPG book-reviewer, second maybe only to our erstwhile host, and have written various RPGs, including Lords of Olympus, Arrows of Indra, Gnomemurdered, and now Dark Albion. I run theRPGsite, was into Old-School before it was cool, invented terms in our hobby like “Swine”, “Lawncrappers”, “Venisonocracy”, “Pseudo-Activists”, and have been writing one of the best known gaming blogs in the hobby for about 10 years now. You already know who I am, if you’re here, odds are.
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