Alison asked me if there was any sort of game she hadn’t run that I would like to play. I said I’d like a sword and sorcery game – a genre she’s never run and is uncertain she’d do well. (She loves playing a S&S character, she loves S&S games, she just doesn’t think she could run a good one.)
 
So, I fully expected her to say, “Nada, pick something else.” But she said OK.
 
She had a think and a couple of days later she said, “It’s the third century AD – do you want to play a Frank, a Vandal, or a Goth?” I was frankly stunned and delighted. This is so much something I’d love! It isn’t an historical game but historical fantasy. Magic and monsters exist as people of the time believed but are rare. I said Goth and she said go away and come up with a character. So, I did.
 
Safrax owns an heirloom sword, is touchy on his honour, can’t back down from a challenge to a duel, is an experienced warrior but a mediocre sailor. This doesn’t stop him sailing on raids from the Black Sea to ravage the coastal towns and cities of Roman Asia Minor. He has a wife and three children, and a sworn enemy in his adopted clan (his wife’s) who is biding his time to get his revenge. (Safrax turned up, joined the clan, stole his girl’s heart and married her.)
 
Boy, am I looking forward to this!