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Hawkmoon is not merely a medieval adventure setting with strange gadgets laid on top. It is a world of tragic romance, grotesque empire, ruin-haunted landscapes, and terrible knowledge preserved in masks, engines, and laboratories. These rules help give the setting its proper weight and flavor in play. | Hawkmoon is not merely a medieval adventure setting with strange gadgets laid on top. It is a world of tragic romance, grotesque empire, ruin-haunted landscapes, and terrible knowledge preserved in masks, engines, and laboratories. These rules help give the setting its proper weight and flavor in play. | ||
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Setting Rules
[edit]Hawkmoon is not merely a medieval adventure setting with strange gadgets laid on top. It is a world of tragic romance, grotesque empire, ruin-haunted landscapes, and terrible knowledge preserved in masks, engines, and laboratories. These rules help give the setting its proper weight and flavor in play.
Core Assumptions
[edit]The Tragic Millennium is a world of:
- ruined civilizations
- lingering war
- grotesque science
- strange relics
- tragic choices
- bold action in the shadow of despair
Tone And Style
[edit]Adventures should feel dangerous, colorful, mournful, and grand. The world is broken, but not empty. Courage still matters. Beauty still survives. Honor still exists, though it is often cornered by horror and necessity.
Fear And Horror
[edit]Optional or core Fear rules will go here.
The Tragic Millennium is full of sights that shake the soul: beast-masked nobles, laboratories of mutilation, dead cities, obscene engines, and relics that should never awaken.
Forbidden Science In Play
[edit]Forbidden Science is the great unnatural force of the age. It is neither modern science nor simple sorcery, but a degraded and monstrous inheritance from lost ages.
See Forbidden Science.
Relics, Ruins, And Salvage
[edit]Rules for relics, salvage, scarcity, and exploration will go here.
Masks, Orders, And Identity
[edit]Rules or guidance for beast masks, status, secrecy, and social terror will go here.
Optional Setting Systems
[edit]Potential additions:
- corruption or degradation
- unstable devices
- social terror under Granbretan
- regional travel hazards
- relic misfire tables