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Originally Posted by Phil Masters
It’s not too hard to set up; see my piece in the latest Pyramid for a possible divergence point for a somewhat realistic version. But you’re stuck with the traditional problems of wartime-setting RPGs, of course.
I’d either go for a returning-PTSD-suffering-veterans screampunk game (more gothic, less tech) or make the PCs agents of Joseph Banks. (“Yes I know there’s a war on, but that’s no reason to stop talking to fellow gentlemen of science in France. I can give you a letter of introduction to Humboldt if you’ll just slip over the Channel to look into this latest spot of bother with Fulton and those hieroglyphs...”)
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The Napoleonic era, when Mary Shelly was around, is certainly a good place to put gothic tales.