This is a follow-up on my last post, Happy Gunpowder Treason Day! for this month's RPG Blog Carnival topic: Haves and Have-Nots: Social Classes in Fantasy Worlds . Unfortunately, I didn't have time to fully flesh it out. As a starting point, I'm a fan of Chgowz 's " Three Hexes " campaign starter format. Here's a sketch of my take on that: Premise: The campaign takes place in a magical England analog, Anglia, in the early 1600s. King James is expanding the support of the Church of Anglia in its schism from the Orthodox Church and the High Cardinal's rule over religious matters. With minor tweaking, this could instead be The Three Musketeers or something in Prussia. Themes: Conflict between crown loyalists and orthodox loyalists: The Crown loyalists (or "Loyalists") call the other side disloyal foreigners: Trying to crush the everyday people who haven't demonstrated their loyalty to the Crown under their heels. And some of them t...
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