I think you're reading a lot into this, actually. It's just written in a way that we thought would appeal dramatically as it is an RPG and not a university course. In no way are we saying you can only do certain things in the RPG, nor would we want to. Sorry if you read it this way.
No, I don't see revolutionaries as being villains. I'm sorry again. I was actually appealing for revolutionaries from here because having read the comm. I thought people here would be less likely to play one-sided unbalanced revolutionaries who where just the sort of bad cackling villains you see in movies about the revolution. I was hoping for well rounded characters, not villains.
And besides, in the terror you had executions of revolutionaries who had fallen out of favour and normal everyday people -wouldn't they want to flee?
Really, using Robespierre is to appeal to large number of people because to those who haven't studied the French Revolution he is the only one they know about. In the actual game we make it more than clear it is the Comité, not one individual.
It's not meant to be massively historically accurate, but I in no way intended to give the impression we where touting for revolutionaries as villains, or that aristocrats where nice guys - we have a number of villainous aristocrats in game.
Honestly, I just thought this would be a little bit of fun.
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Date: 2008-04-30 09:42 pm (UTC)No, I don't see revolutionaries as being villains. I'm sorry again. I was actually appealing for revolutionaries from here because having read the comm. I thought people here would be less likely to play one-sided unbalanced revolutionaries who where just the sort of bad cackling villains you see in movies about the revolution. I was hoping for well rounded characters, not villains.
And besides, in the terror you had executions of revolutionaries who had fallen out of favour and normal everyday people -wouldn't they want to flee?
Really, using Robespierre is to appeal to large number of people because to those who haven't studied the French Revolution he is the only one they know about. In the actual game we make it more than clear it is the Comité, not one individual.
It's not meant to be massively historically accurate, but I in no way intended to give the impression we where touting for revolutionaries as villains, or that aristocrats where nice guys - we have a number of villainous aristocrats in game.
Honestly, I just thought this would be a little bit of fun.