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The Earth we know is gone, forgotten in the depths of time. In its place is the Urth a world of mystery and danger, steeped in a thousand centuries of history and legend, where humankind brushes shoulders with beings and creatures strange and monstrous. The Venerable Autocracy of Sakara, the greatest and oldest Empire on Urth, rules over half the world, led by an immortal God-Emperor whose very word is law. It's a world of deep, dark forests, brooding mountains, timeworn ruins haunted with the ghosts of the past and the weird monsters of the future. Arcane sorcerers explore strange dimensions, terrible priests wield powers from extradimensional beings known as Gods, mighty soldiers forge new histories from the ruins of the past. It's a time of danger, reckoning, and adventure. Welcome to The Chronicles of Future Earth. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The Chronicle of Future Earth alludes to a much-changed world (Urth) of the far future. There is more than a dash of Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, Jack Vance's Dying Earth, M.A.R. Barker's Tékumel, Michael Moorcock's Hawkmoon and no doubt many other science-fantasy references which escape me. However this is not strictly a 'Dying Earth' setting. An ancient empire rules half the globe. Demons and gods exist and provide power to sorceries. Humans share the Urth with other races: the descendants of genetically divergent human stock and extrasolar races. As in the sources mentioned above, this is a post-technological society. Ancient artifacts of technology exist, but their workings are largely unknown to the most recent inhabitants of Urth.
Science fantasy is a tricky genre to get right. To me this book leans too much towards fantasy. The things which make it so are pantheistic gods and chaos. I'll start with Chaos. In the north of the world are chaos things which threaten the borders of the Venerable Autocracy. This is very reminiscent of the Old World of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, where Chaos comes from gates at the poles. This unsubtle Chaos vs. Law, goodies vs. baddies setup is more characteristic of a fantasy world.
Pantheism is something which our world accepted as fact two millenia ago, and may do again. Active gods had a profound effect on the settings of Tékumel and 'Lords of Light' by Roger Zelazny. In the Chronicles of Future Earth gods exist after (re?)manifesting themselves in a past conflict with the evil Hegemonist (another god or godlike being -- or maybe the Devil?). More good vs. evil. Maybe there's not enough information there but I didn't find it convincing. Multiple gods tilted the setting more to the fantasy side of science fantasy.
Game information is generally good,including demon summoning rules (very similar to Elric!/Stormbringer), character generation and equipment. There are good quality maps and illustrations and an introductory setting (the city of Korudav) with an adventure.
Overall, this is a good product, in spite of my prejudices. I find the setting a bit too much fantasy, not enough science, but the book provides some good tools for science-fantasy roleplaying, and it is probably more accessible as a setting than something like Tékumel. ( )