Dragons of Tirenia

Via's player had so much fun at her first D&D session that the next day, she made Ca'Benicio on Minecraft! Check it out: Ca'Benicio, street view Edorado's room Gustavo's room The bathroom Chiara's room Entrance-way  Ground floor  The kitchens   Second floor Spare room Art: Minecraft. 2009, Mojang AB.

Signore Gustavo di Benicio was dying. House Benicio was an old patrician family in Vanzenia that had fallen on hard times since the city's conquest by the red dragons. Despite his relative poverty, Gustavo was somehow able to scrape together enough money to help each of his children on their chosen path in life, but he was not able to turn the family fortune around. Now, as he lay dying, he summoned the surviving members of the family to attend his bedside: he had something important to tell them. One by one, the members of House Benicio arrived in the city. Greta was the last to arrive. It was a cold winter evening, and the streets were covered in frost. Breath puffed out in clouds. The familiar stench of waste in the canals bit at nostrils. Bells tolled to mark the hours. Distantly, in the Plaza of the Dragon, there was the sound of music and celebration, and fireworks occasionally lit up the sky: it was the beginning of Carnevale. The streets were nearly empty, save for the ...

At the local community theatre where I act, a lot of people know that I'm very keen on role-playing games. I've been promising to run a game for a while, and so when the last production wrapped up, I decided that it was time to make good on that promise. I organised a group of people, and set up a game for them! I gave them a number of options as to what sort of game they wanted, and the winning option was Dragon Princes , a work-in-progress setting for Dungeons and Dragons that I created a few years back for a short-lived store campaign. What is Dragon Princes?  In the Italian Renaissance-inspired land of Tirenia, the princes of wealthy city-states intrigue against one another for power and glory. But these princes are dragons, who have conquered humanity. They have destroyed many of their ancient enemies, and the church, once the world's greatest defender, is now their corrupt and self-serving cats-paw. However, not everyone accepts the rule of the dragons, and the ever...