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Gran Meccanismo
Clockpunk Roleplaying in Da Vinci's Florence
Series: Osprey Roleplaying
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2023 ENNIE NOMINATED FOR BEST WRITING A roleplaying game of fantastical inventions and Machiavellian politics in Renaissance Italy. It is the Year of Our Lord 1510, and one has to wonder how differently history could have played out if Niccolò Machiavelli, the military commissioner of the...
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See moreA roleplaying game of fantastical inventions and Machiavellian politics in Renaissance Italy.
A roleplaying game of fantastical inventions and Machiavellian politics in Renaissance Italy.
Description
2023 ENNIE NOMINATED FOR BEST WRITING
A roleplaying game of fantastical inventions and Machiavellian politics in Renaissance Italy.
It is the Year of Our Lord 1510, and one has to wonder how differently history could have played out if Niccolò Machiavelli, the military commissioner of the Republic of Florence, had not understood the true scale of Leonardo da Vinci’s genius. In such a world, the visionary might simply have wasted his time painting portraits of women and doodling in a sketchbook. Instead, he unleashed a technological revolution where primitive computers, decorated with delicately painted cupids, run on water clocks; spring-powered tanks whir across the battlefield, cannons thundering from their flanks; and gliders flit across perfectly blue Tuscan skies.
Gran Meccanismo is a roleplaying game of swashbuckling adventure in a Renaissance Italy where Florence's winding alleys play host to spies, scholars, and sell-swords alike. Players are nobles, mercenaries, inventors, and artisans who may find themselves crossing wits with Machiavelli, avoiding the dangerous charms of Lucretia Borgia, or hearing Christopher Columbus telling tales of the new world he has discovered...
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INFORMATION
Barcode: 9781472849670
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 18 August 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Osprey Games
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Randy Musseau
- Illustrated by Teresa Ramos
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Length: 16.0mm
Width: 158.0mm
Height: 232.0mm
Weight: 580g
Pages: 192
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