Passion Play (Live-Action Rules for the Fading Suns Universe)
Published by Holistic Design
Written by Bill Bridges, Jeff Brown, Gary Glass, Mareen Goebel, Bill Maxwell, Nikki Johnson-Maxwell, Kim Scott, Trevor Valle, Dave Vasquez
232 5-1/2"x8-1/2" pages; $14.95
Philosophus Gandius Mathews,
The end is nigh! The Eskaton approaches, and the teeming millions whose souls flicker dim are not unlike the fading of the stars; their hopes for salvation dwindle as the embers of their inner potential flames fade fast. Soon all will end in darkness.
But not, it seems, today.
Perhaps Thursday. The end times will be nothing if not unpredictable, even if going so far as to be predictable to further reinforce the need for unpredictability.
In the interim, my studies continue. And in my travels I have discovered a new volume called Passion Play. Incredible as it sounds, this work seems designed to allow others to simulate the lives of nobles, priests, and freemen, through "live-action roleplaying."
The end is nigh.
The first chapter details current events in our world. I am curious who would find the information in these 26 pages useful; for, who does not know about our lives in the dawn of the sixth millenium: the rise of the nobles, the power of the church, the enemy barbarians threatening to invade the boundaries of the jumpweb Emperor Alexius Hawkwood has struggled to hold together? It serves as an excellent primer, to be sure, if one were to have amnesia or other demons of the mind. It also . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: March 30, 2001
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