Gran Meccanismo

Clockpunk Roleplaying in Da Vinci's Florence

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Description

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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...

Product details

Published Aug 18 2022
Format Ebook (Epub)
Edition 1st
Extent 192
ISBN 9781472849663
Imprint Osprey Games
Series Osprey Roleplaying
Short code RPG
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Author

Mark Galeotti

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Illustrator

Teresa Ramos

Illustrator

Randy Musseau

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