Experience the Adventure, Intrigue, Romance and Danger of Mythic Venice!
The latest addition to the Mythic Earth range takes you to Venice - La Serenissima!
Written by acclaimed author Paul StJohn Mackintosh, Mythic Venice provides setting information and rules to adapt the Mythras system to the world of the Venetian Republic. It needs the core Mythras rules to play with, although it’s as flexible as that system, and can be integrated into most RPG rule systems following the d100 pedigree. It also forms a natural companion to other Mythras setting books, especially Mythic Constantinople and Fioracitta
Mythic Venice focuses on the history of the Republic at the height of its power: from Venice’s acquisition of Corfu in 1401 and Dalmatia in 1409 to its participation in the great naval victory against the Turks at Lepanto in 1571, the Republic extended its territorial reach and its sway far enough to be treated as a contemporary European great power – the only one that medieval and early modern Italy ever produced. Long one of Europe’s most populous cities, it also became in this period arguably Western Europe’s most sophisticated and advanced, and eventually a forcing-house of the Italian Renaissance.
Mythic Venice tilts its coverage towards the end of this period, when Venice’s cultural contribution to the Renaissance reached its full flowering while its political and economic power were already passing into eclipse. Lepanto was practically the Venetian Republic’s last hurrah on the world stage. Yet who would want to create a book of Venetian adventures without including the paintings of Bellini and Titian, the Rialto Bridge, the architecture of Sansovino and Palladio, and the literal high point of cloak-and-dagger intrigue, when fencing cutthroats actually used their cloaks both for concealment and defence? Mythic Venice doesn’t pretend to precise historical accuracy, but serves up a dish of ingredients that can be mixed to create a quintessentially Venetian flavour – and hopefully as much fun and spectacle as any Venetian carnival.
