FEBRUARY 2008 FEATURES:
Marcus Rowland is easily one of the most important figures in Victorian gaming. He's published nine volumes for his exhaustive game, Forgotten Futures. Forgotten Futures features game worlds based on the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, George Griffith and William Hope Hodgson (among others). He's also written "The Original Flatland RPG"; based on "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" by Edwin A. Abbott. He was kind enough to answer several of our queries recently.... MORE...
The year is 1925 and someone is murdering surgeons in London. Killing them with deadly bats, enraged rats, ravening locusts... by draining their blood and even by using a deadly frog mask! Nine medical professionals were present when the lovely Victoria Phibes died, and all of them must pay the price! Or at least that's how Victoria's husband, the titular Dr. Phibes, would have it. Anton Phibes allegedly died in a car crash racing to get to his doomed wife but the public is unaware that he lives and he will have his revenge. The living, yet horribly scarred, Phibes...MORE...
As with his fellow authors, Jules Verne and Herbert George Wells, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (the creator of Sherlock Holmes) occupies a very particular place in the world of Uchronia 1890: he is both an inspiration for the game and one its protagonists.
You may have noticed that what we've borrowed from the work of Doyle is most obvious in the realm of the Supporting Cast. Well read players will easily recognize Mycroft Holmes behind Sir Mortimer Grey,...MORE...