Riporto dalla discussione dell'evento:
La mattina (dove mi tentava molto anche
The Upgrade!... sono veramente curioso di vederlo all'opera) stavo pensando di portare qualcosa; sarei curioso di provare
Thy Vernal Chieftains o
Thou Art But a Warrior, ma sto ancora valutando (non solo tra quei due). Ci sarebbero anche altri giochi, tra cui
carry, ma
quanto detto da Moreno mi rende un po' restio...
Eventualmente ci sarebbero interessati?
Aggiunta: Se servisse, per la mattina anche un
Polaris normale è papabile.
Per chi non conoscesse i giochi:
Thy Vernal Chieftains:
The departure of the Roman legions from Britannia in A.D. 410 truly left the future of western culture up for grabs. Thy Vernal Chieftains is a game of telling fantastic and epic stories about Celts, Romans, Britons, Saxons, and Picts in this British Dark Ages, the springtime of our own culture, and thereby, of finding out how our own modern age might now be different.
Non è richiesta una grande conoscenza di quelle culture; come Czege stesso dice:
you don’t want to know too much. The stories you’ll tell are many centuries colored by legendary and magical apocrypha, and you’ll be more successful at capturing the right tone if you can avoid agonizing about historical minutia. Forty five minutes on Wikipedia reading about Celts, druids, Saxons, Picts, woad, and Roman Britain should be all you need.
È un gioco "di narrazione" in stile
Bacchanal: le meccaniche sono diverse, ma l'idea di fondo di narrare una storia rimane.
Thou Art But a Warrior: espansione di
Polaris, si giocano cavalieri mussulmani durante la caduta della Spagna islamica, al principio delle Crociate.
Though the great Caliphate has been dissolved and the unity of Iberia’s Muslims lost, their power has not failed entirely. The taifas have their armies, and at the heart of those armies are the noble orders of Muslim Knights. These Knights swear solemn oaths to revere Allah and his Prophet, to fight for the defense of the innocent, and to honor a strict code of ethics and morals in order to bring about peace and justice for their society. They are warriors and poets, and they are the last hope of a people who do not see their doom before them.
Their inevitable failure is a thing to be mourned most deeply.
