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Sep. 20th, 2004 04:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oakenguyUpdates about real life things coming soon, but first I must geek:
'Lionheart' is a great game.
It's a Diablo-style RPG set in the 1500s of an alternate world where, several centuries before, Richard the Lionhearted did something Very Unwise during his Crusade and released magic back into the world. The "history lessons" in the rulebook are fun--the Dragon Conquest of Scandinavia and the eventual Templar/Inquisition liberation of those areas, the Sunken Isle of Ireland and the Irish diaspora led by Grace O'Malley, the Necromancer War that spread from Egypt across the entire Mediterranean. And for the designers to use Zoroastrianism, of all things, as the underlying supernatural belief system of the game is nifty.
What I'm enjoying most about it, though, are the historical cameos that pop up everywhere. The thrill of saying things like "Da Vinci says I have to get to Nostradamus before the Old Man of the Mountain does--fortunately the undead Joan of Arc has agreed to help me, and I have the sword of Kublai Khan that I received for liberating Toulouse from those Greek rock titans" just makes me tingle.
'Lionheart' is a great game.
It's a Diablo-style RPG set in the 1500s of an alternate world where, several centuries before, Richard the Lionhearted did something Very Unwise during his Crusade and released magic back into the world. The "history lessons" in the rulebook are fun--the Dragon Conquest of Scandinavia and the eventual Templar/Inquisition liberation of those areas, the Sunken Isle of Ireland and the Irish diaspora led by Grace O'Malley, the Necromancer War that spread from Egypt across the entire Mediterranean. And for the designers to use Zoroastrianism, of all things, as the underlying supernatural belief system of the game is nifty.
What I'm enjoying most about it, though, are the historical cameos that pop up everywhere. The thrill of saying things like "Da Vinci says I have to get to Nostradamus before the Old Man of the Mountain does--fortunately the undead Joan of Arc has agreed to help me, and I have the sword of Kublai Khan that I received for liberating Toulouse from those Greek rock titans" just makes me tingle.
