Rostengrad: A Minimal Setting Document

A bit tired of 5e, but loving the experience of running urban adventures, I am thinking of moving to a different ruleset, most likely Index Card RPG. As an exercise in thinking about a new campaign, I have started putting together the skeleton of a campaign setting.

The setup is based on an idea from Jack Guignol of the Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque blog entry on using Dune as a model for a political powder keg. My usual inspirations for cities are Planescape, Bas-Lag, Joe Abercrombie, M. John Harrison's Viriconium, Micheal Moorcock's Runestaff novels, and Tanith Lee's Books of Paradys, in creating a sort of busy, crowded, metropolitan city filled with gothic ghosts, scheming, and both romantic and political intrigue, but almost none of that has made it into the document notes.

I like to take minimal notes and try to bring out the campaign feel and style in play, as well as creating history along the way as the characters do, so I don't know how much my kind of campaign notes help at all.

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