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July 05, 2004
Day Late: 4th of July
I'm sitting around thinking "Hey, I should post something to reflect that it's a holiday in the US," but I couldn't think of a damned thing until this morning, when I woke up and spent an hour poking around trying to remember the name of Doug Anderson's half-remembered setting. In the end I dug out my link to his article on running a dungeon-free RPG campaign from an old set of bookmarks. Of course the site was gone, but that's what the Internet Archive is for. From there I got the name of the setting and that was enough to get me to the Septentrionalis news page. (The game company mentions is of course Atlas Games.)
So there you go. Any other Revolutionary War settings or games out there?
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As far as I know, just the one permenantly stuck in my head.
Posted by: Emily K. Dresner-Thornber at Jul 5, 2004 4:22:55 PM
Rabble in Arms: an Unknown Armies game set during the Revolutionary War. The PCs are George Washington's secret Masonic agents, out to stop the dreadful magic of the British monarchy from crushing the revolution. (I vaguely recall Edmund Burke fulminating against private political societies in Reflections on the Revolution in France, and I figure that's good enough sourcing to think like a crazy person and do occult conspiracy.) Naturally, the NPC mentor is Benedict Arnold, who will turn traitor halfway through the campaign, so that the PCs can kill him and replace him with a wooden automaton at the end.
Posted by: Neel Krishnaswami at Jul 6, 2004 5:03:17 PM
Neel, don't forget the secret twist in the GM's section where you find out that Washington is really Adam Weisshaupt and that the Bavarian Illuminati have taken over the American Masons.
Posted by: Bill at Jul 7, 2004 10:18:40 AM
All you have to do is deal with Boston's Mason wars.
Posted by: Jere at Jul 7, 2004 11:50:29 AM
What are the Mason wars? I've never heard of them before.
Posted by: Neel Krishnaswami at Jul 7, 2004 2:21:31 PM
Pre-Revolutonary War the lodges that would form the backbone of the Commitees of Correspondence in Boston were arguing on who got precedence and recognition from the primary lodges in England. Such fighting inevitably led to street fights, with a couple of guys killed.
I'll try to dig up some references.
Posted by: Jere at Jul 7, 2004 3:01:07 PM
