Gran Meccanismo
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...
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...