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For aeons the Old Gods have been imprisoned, trapped away from their places of power, their divine rulership over Creation usurped by pretenders. For millenia they have waited, impotent and raging, whilst those New Gods born during the Iron Rule have had to lie low and avoid the attention of the Gods of the Iron Laws, their natural right to take their places in the family of Heaven denied them.

Then the Iron Rule began to fall. For a year and a day now, Creation has been unravelling. Mortal civilisation has crumbled. Signs and portents were everywhere. The Sun will not rise, the stars have left their appointed places and have been seen drinking in East London pubs, rivers have ceased running through sheer fear and now weep openly for the death of the world, dogs and cats form revolutionary committees to free themselves from the yoke of domestication. The Gods of the Iron Laws cannot hold on for long, for the Tools they have stolen in order to control Creation are beginning to break. All now expect the world to end. Only the return of the Universe's true rulers can save existence now.

Yesterday, the Gods were freed...

Renaissance is a freeform game run in Oxford, beginning Michelmas term 2003. The next session will happen at 7pm, November 8th, at the Miles Room in St Peter's College. The GM team will be at the Hobgoblin pub on St Aldate's from 6:30pm for pre-game drinks and plotting.

Player characters will be the Gods who are the rightful masters of Creation, who have recently found the tyrants who usurped them have scarpered, leaving Creation in tatters. What happens now, only the Gods can decide.

News
Being stories told in the here and now.

The Pantheon
The cast of player characters.

Timeline
Being the history of the Gods Old and New, from the pre-Creational void to yesterday afternoon.

The Almanac
A series of articles on features of the world, the Courts of the Gods, the conventions of divine society, the residents of Creation, the enemies of Heaven, and many other topics.

System
A little bit of character generation, a little bit of action resolution. Just add character concept, boiling water, and stir.

Turnsheeting and Resource
How Resource works. How turnsheeting works. What it says on the tin.

Style Guide
How we intend to run this game. What we promise you, what we ask of you, what you're letting yourself in for.

Forums
A place for IC and OOC discussion.

Updates:6pm, 20th August: The Almanac gets details on Dream, Covenants and the Unreal.
9:30pm, 24th July: Details of Oaths added to Almanac.
9pm, 6th July: Timeline updated, details of announcements simplified.
3:30pm, 19th June: Details of hospitality and True Names added to Almanac.
6pm, 13th June: Timeline updated.
5pm, 12th June: Forums made public.
Midnight, 4th June: Game announced on rpgsoca, website made public.

Credits

The GM team is Wart, Joe, and Bri, and can be contacted at gm_team@yahoogroups.com. Dan Hemmens acts as a consultant to the GM team, provided the first draft of the character generation and action resolution systems, and has provided all the other services you could possibly want a man in a trenchcoat and a fedora to provide. Lex has earnt our eternal gratitude for his important contributions when the game was being conceived, and for his encouragement.

This is not an Inheritance sequel in the slightest, but Wart will also like to thank the other members of that GM team for giving him his big break as a freeform GM, as well as providing useful issues to consider when designing this game.