Once again I steal Jack's format.
Novgova/Muscgorod
Precis: Feuding principalities play dangerous power games in a ham-fisted version of fantasy Russia with strong horror overtones.
Conspectus: Terrible Old Gods who live in the rivers and pray on travelers; baba yagas (plural); Scheming Grand Princes who back their ambitions with torture and violence; sorcerers who sustain their vile lives with the blood of innocents; massive, onion domed fortress cities that dwarf their kind in the West; fiendish cleric-spies who use torture to root out sedition and heresy; werebears; Cossack-style adventurers roaming the wilderness looking for plunder and easy prey; fucking tigers; brooding taiga forests.
Taste, Sound, Image: Vodka on the way back up, "The Song of the Volga Boatmen" Russian Red Army Choir, Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible
It's a good format! Lord knows I stole it enough :) I love the "fucking tigers." That's exactly how my PCs would react too.
ReplyDeleteI want to go to there. (Despite the fucking tigers.)
ReplyDeleteRegarding the tigers, is the 'fucking' part an adjective or an adverb?
ReplyDeleteDepends on the situation.
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