The kingdom is in shambles. Plague and famine are everywhere. The economy is broken.
When asked how to solve all of the problems, the queen herself gives the infamous proclamation that enrages everyone:
>"Let them eat cake."
This is the spark that lights the wildfire. Now the entire kingdom is rioting and guillotining the nobility. A great general must rise up to unite everyone...
Would the French Revolution be a good DND setting?
no
>would the French Revolution be a good setting
Maybe
>a good DND setting
Absolutely not, those systems are for dungeon crawling and can't handle much else
>Absolutely not, those systems are for dungeon crawling and can't handle much else
You have to storm the Tomb of Forbidden Horrors to gain access to gunpowder for the Revoultion.
They'd been calling her a lesbo nonstop in the press, even though everybody knows that catholic girls in the US specialize in anal.
how come we don't guillotine people anymore?
We actually did up until 70s, beheading was the default execution method in a lot of European countries until death penalties were systematically abolished.
Too many people are still too comfortable to take any drastic measures, this is why I'm hoping for an economic collapse.
State sanctioned murder with lots of public spectacle are still a thing. Except now its just youtube videos of cop bodycams.
Wrong, now it's by the importation of foreign hordes
>Would the French Revolution be a good DND setting?
No but it can be a good campaign arc, I had one like that. I made players hate a npc (Villain) who was a super powerful noble in a faraway kingdom which had a half-assed revolution going on. The party traveled there and helped the revolution blaze because it'd help them get to the villain. In the meantime more revolution, guillotines, plague and other antiques, inspired by the most abominable thing in the world i.e. the French.
It was also the only time I had a paladin fall in my dming career, because the paladin kinda went a bit too hard into commie mindset and caused unnecessary deaths of a lot of innocent peasants as well as relatively innocent aristocrats (he realized his sin and later atoned for it).
>DND
Have you tried not playing d&d?
> The Infernal Columns : The party is asked to help rape & genocide a part of their own country, literally "can you help us rape and genocide this part of our people". By the supposedly good guys. They explicitly tell you to rape and genocide everyone in you meet in that area, without asking loyalties.
I feel like most modern players would think this is ridiculous and gaslighting and not historically accurate...
I've actually played in a game like that, but it was badly derailed. The main problem was that the party's half-elf sorceress (By which I mean her dad was the elf, her mother was minor nobility) was an ambitious social climber and fricking this nobleman's son.
So when the peasants showed up, she fireballed the shit out of them, with open glee.
After that, our party was pretty much committed, and we spent the next five sessions killed revolutionaries. I appreciate that the GM gamely played it all the way to the end, but I sensed that his heart wasn't really in it.
>The economy is broken.
Fun fact, the French economy was absolutely shit before and during the Revolution, and the economic steps taken by the Directoire and the Assemblée immediately would have sent it spiraling into complete hyperinflation IF it hadn't been for the Americans pissing off the French and reneging on their words, leading the French to adopt an "open piracy" policy on American merchant ships. Over 250 America ships were seized in the following 2~3 years and the boost to the coffers where such that French politicians started launching economic military campaigns which ended up saving France's economy.
Tit-for-Tat, I say. The colonies were a haven for piracy and fencing off stolen shipments after all.
>Let them eat cake
Nobody ever actually said this.
>Now the entire kingdom is rioting and guillotining the nobility
While nobles were being killed, so were lots of people. The nobility was also disproportionately over-represented among revolutionaries. It wasn't really a class conflict like it has been made out to be, and insofar as it was, it was a revolution of the urban middle-class.
It's always been the same. Like the great German peasant revolt centuries earlier in the Holy Roman Empire was mostly led by knights too.
>The kingdom is in shambles. Plague and famine are everywhere. The economy is broken.
I spend the next week ritual casting goodberry and cure disease while the party rogue rolls charisma checks (minimum 18) to get people's priceless heirlooms for them. Then we march to somewhere better, next plothook please.
Pathfinder has an entire country like that in Galt.