Victoriana - 2nd Edition - Core Rules.pdf - Victoriana - RPG

Second Edition Core Rulebook

Revised and Updated by

Kristian Bjørkelo, Andrew Peregrine, Scott Rhymer,

Ian Sturrock & John Tuckey

Game Credits

Original Game Design by: John Tuckey

Second Edition writing by: Kristian Bjørkelo, Andrew

Peregrine, Scott Rhymer, Ian Sturrock and John Tuckey

Original First Edition writing by: John Tuckey, Richard

Nunn and Scott Rhymer

Heresy Engine system design by: Ian Sturrock and

Andrew Peregrine

Layout Design and Typesetting by: Gabriel Strange

Editing by: Andrew Peregrine and Dominic McDowall-

Thomas

Proofreading by: Annie Percik, Claire Mehegan and Florian

Kühne

Short ﬁ ctions by: Caz Granberg, Annie Percik, Andrew

Peregrine, Tracey S Rosenberg, Dominic McDowall-Thomas,

Trudi Topham and Anki Wikman

Victoriana and Cubicle 7 Key Staff

Line Developer: Mr Andrew Peregrine

Cubicle 7 Director: Mr Angus Abranson

Creative Consultant: Mr John Tuckey

Operations Manager and Webmaster: Mr Dominic

McDowall-Thomas

2nd Edition Published by Cubicle 7

Entertainment Ltd.

The Victoriana Game World ©

1992. This version, including all

art, concepts, characters, text and

7 Entertainment. Any unauthorised use of copyrighted

material is illegal.

Art Credits

Cover Design by: Gabriel Strange

Interior Art by: Samuel Araya, Shawn Brack, Svetlana

Chmakova, Ed Davis, Gustav Doré (1832-1883), Fufu

Frauenwahl, Kelly Hamilton, Toos Holman, Tara K Labus,

Matteo Lolli, Ursula Vernon, Anki Wikman, The Illustrated

London News Archives

Book Division Art: “Sorceress” by Alexandra K Bach (Book

1), “The House” by Aaron Acevedo (Book 2) and “Pyetra”

by Natasha Roeoesli (Book 3)

Maps by Gillian Pearce

Second Edition Logo by: Sean Buckley

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GAMES STORE.

If you haven’t got one, you can buy our games direct

from www.cubicle7.co.uk, where you can also browse the

discussions taking place on the Victoriana Forum.

If you have any comments or suggestions about the game,

send them to info@cubicle7.co.uk

Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd. is a private limited company,

reg. no. 6036414. Its registered ofﬁ ce is at 35 Ballards Lane,

London, N3 1XW, UK.

Second Edition Playtesters: Andreas Beck, David Durant,

John Gilbert, Toos Holman, Simson Leigh, Matthew Pook, Raymon

‘Sinbad’ Shah, Kat Welham, Mark Welham, The Team 8 Victoriana

crew (Ben Daniels, John Dodd and Marie Houghton), The Dragonmeet

2006, Compulsion 2007 and Games Expo 2007 players and anyone

else who has participated in one of our demo games.

Our correspondence address is:

Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd.

100 Ballards Lane

Finchley

London N3 2DN

Special Thanks

Sue Lacey for her advice in copyright and ﬁ ne art.

The gentleman (whose name I’ve forgotten and cannot discover) at Angels costume hire, London, for his help ﬁ nding Victorian costume books and resources.

Patrick Leary and the VICTORIA-L mailing list for their help with quotes and Victorian literature.

Gustav Doré for getting his pictures done over 100 years before we asked for them.

Dover Publications for their invaluable image resources, and Toos Holman for tirelessly scanning them for us.

Amber Jackson of Enchanted Photography & Art (Alexandra’s model for Sorceress)

Another general thankyou to ‘Team 8’ (especially Ben Daniels, John Dodd and Marie Houghton) for their sterling work running demos of the new edition across the country.

Gabby’s pants, for their small but important role in the production of this book.

To Gill Peregrine (my mum) for ﬁ nding and scanning the pictures of my Victorian ancestors.

Finally, thanks to everyone on the Victoriana mailing list for their comments and assistance and all the fans of 1st edition who kept the faith. We hope this is what you’ve been waiting for.

Dedications

Andrew – To John Tuckey, who let us steal his child and still helped baby sit. Also to everyone who helped make this new edition happen and everyone who put

up with me while I was working on it!

Ian - To my wife Bridie & son Kyle -- inspirational & energizing as ever!

Kristian - I dedicate it to the faithful.

Toos - To Mum and Dad - thanks for the tea and letting me take over the kitchen table!

Aaron - For Jeannine, forever a lady.

Tracey - To Richard Talbot, a wonderful boyfriend who appreciates roleplaying, Victorian literature and me, not necessarily in that order.

Trudi - To Chris, for being perfect.

Caz - To Thorny and Boltgrinder, for the adventures.

Dominic - To Elaine and Niamh: my sun, moon and stars.

Angus - Cubicle 7 wishes to thank the following for support, advice and friendship: Keyvan Ahmadi, Dave Allsop, Mike Berry, Tony Berry, Sasha Bilton, Jason

Blair, John Brown, Steve Buckmaster, Contested Ground Studios, Mel Dasan, James & Donna Desborough, John Dodd, Jay Forster, Aldo Ghiozzi, Alex Green,

Harry Harding, Chris Hartford, Seth Hartley, Shane Hensley, Fred Hicks, Rosemary Hutton, David King, Rhys Knight, John Kovalic, Leisure Games, Nicole

Lindroos, Simon Lucas, Gareth-Michael Skarka, Nicole Mezzasalma, Alistair Montgomery, Andrew Palmer, Lisa & Mike Pondsmith, Chris Pramas, Simon Rogers,

Jim Searcy and all at Studio 2, Daniel Steel and all at Esdevium Games, Marc Torley, James Wallis, David Young and a cast of thousands!