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Post by tkdco2 on Feb 2, 2021 16:57:14 GMT -6
Not OSR but the actual Renaissance Era.Not a lot of dice rolling, as these are more like LARP than tabletop rpgs.
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Post by captainjapan on Feb 2, 2021 22:36:32 GMT -6
This article has a passage from Little Women on the playing of Rigamarole. For some reason, I'm reminded of the imaginary kingdom of Gondal created by the Bronte sisters (of Jane Eyre/ Wuthering Heights fame) and their brother, Bramwell. The stories began from playing with toy soldiers and were written out as the correspondence and family histories of made-up characters (mostly gentry). It's called paracosm. The Brontes continued to record the fictional history of Gondal, together, into adulthood.
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Post by DungeonDevil on Feb 3, 2021 6:52:06 GMT -6
They have a pic of the Cary Sheet! Sweet! (I've been obsessed with the art history of Tarot-class cards and the cardgames for around 25 years now. ) This sounds absolutely fascinating! Can you direct me to some lit where I can learn more about this?
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Post by captainjapan on Feb 3, 2021 19:55:48 GMT -6
As it happens, many of the fragments of these stories survived. Here is a paperback collection of Glasstown (the original setting), Gondal (the new land created by the younger sisters after Charlotte left to teach), and Angria (still another land created by Charlotte and Branwell Bronte to compete with Gondal). You can read some of the introduction of the book using Amazon's "Look inside" feature. I know there's also a graphic novel, in print, that deals with the Brontes and their juvenile lit. The British Library site has these images of one of the later installments. The books were made intentionally small; a little bigger than a deck of playing cards. The reason for this is that the books were imagined to have belonged to and/or been written by Branwell's toy soldiers. I think the first stories were written when Charlotte Bronte was fourteen years old. The format was half chronicle - half letters. The letters were satire. The fictitious heroes of the chronicle used the letters sections to contradict each other. As for what a paracosm is, I had to look that up. Dave Arneson and M.A.R. Barker and especially J.R.R. Tolkien invented fantasy worlds that could be referred to as paracosms. I don't remember if the wikipedia definition requires that the stories be collaborative. The Brontes' definitely were. TLDR; Here's a video about it.
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