Matt Machell

[Enlightenment & Entropy]Scene Types

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So, my current project, a way off being playable, has a working title of Enlightenment and Entropy. It's a game about people and cities. Its setting is a decaying, enlightenment era, fantasy city of spires and squallor, where the protagonists emotions impact reality. Think Rats & Gargoyles meets Morecock via China Mieville.

The character sheet is a map of the city. You assign your four stats to neighbourhoods, and their fate is linked to together. Your characters also have emotional traits, some negative, some positive. So do city areas. Players are pushing for one of the cosmic forces to reach its trigger point, and thereby define the setting's future.

Realms Publishing

Realms Publishing is the self publishing effort of Matt Machell. As an offshoot of the Realms E-Zine its mission is to bring intriguing roleplaying games from concept to print.

Our first print game is Covenant: A story game of failing conspiracies, but Realms has provided game ideas on the web since 1999. In 2004 Matt's game of psychadelic 60s monster hunting, The Agency, was printed as part of the Nopress RPG Anthology