Mark Galeotti

Re: "Sleeper" Genres Well, my own pet 'sleeper genre' is Renaissance Hero, specifically set in Italy around 1500. The HERO engine works well for duels, etc, and any game set then has just such a jaw-droppingly rich cast of characters. You could help Michelangelo get his marble from Carrara across bandit-infested roads, join (or try to avoid) Macchiavelli's political schemes, swap tall travel tales with Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama, test-fly flying machines for Leonardo da Vinci, fall dangerously for Lucretia Borgia, help topple corrupt pope Alexander VI (as in, even more corrupt than the norm), dodge the knives of the Venetian secret police, listen to the radical sermons of Savonarola, fight off the French invasion... All the best Mark

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