You know, with all the sex in Game of Thrones, I find it kind of funny that Apocalypse World: Dark Age doesn’t have sex moves…
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You know, with all the sex in Game of Thrones, I find it kind of funny that Apocalypse World: Dark Age doesn’t have…
You know, with all the sex in Game of Thrones, I find it kind of funny that Apocalypse World: Dark Age doesn’t have…
There’s other stuff at play here, yeah.
I don’t think sex moves are needed with the new dimensions added with the societal ranking system. With the game of thrones comparison, i always saw that the sex was never about sex. It was always more about the trappings of the characters situations.
Sex in AGoT also often emphasize the depravity of characters (especially the Lannisters), or the honor of them by portraying them as chaste.
Romance moves then… it is still a part of adult interaction, and technically the dark ages are the post-roman-apocalypse world — a scarcity of basic human contact and the depravity of common human needs is a significant aspect to many of the events in very familiar ways.
I can’t help but think of all those wars fought and lives lost, over the lovers spats between best-boys turned merciless-men.
From the triangle with Julius and Cleopatra and Mark or amidst the entire set of Trojan Wars (where; in a passionate orgy of battle, you cant really tell who was murdering and who was mating whom,) then all the way through Henry and Becket or the Duke d’Alençon and Joan of Arc and Gilles de Rais triangle.
Many more stories come through the Dark Age Apocalypse World, involving the severity of scarcity for lesser men and women involved in even greater debauchery than these poor examples might suggest.
To Do List; Watch a few Dark Ages Movies…
…especially for deconstructing sex… er… romance moves, in rpg contexts.
Rohmer captures the light before the darkness, delivering an effervescent romance that’s lithe, funny and fresh as a meadow — in a 1607 pastoral fantasy by Honoré d’Urfé about a lovestruck shepherd. It is set in a fifth-century Gaul populated by nymphs and druids, which situates Rohmer’s film just on the cusp of when the classical era was heading into the Dark Ages.
* http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_of_Astree_and_Celadon
Drawing from the medieval story cycles of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and the 1001 Nights; Pasolini eschewed the stately grandeur of the costume epic in favour of an earthier, more direct style. With looming close-ups of the faces of non-professional actors, Pasolini stresses the continuities between our time and the past, with human beings laid plain in all our beauty and ugliness, our base desires charted alongside our passionate exuberance.
* http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales_%28film%29
A grand fresco of life in 15th-century Russia. It’s centred around the eponymous icon painter who wanders through a landscape ravaged by Mongol invaders, experiencing an acute crisis of faith as he’s confronted with savagery and hopelessness.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Rublev_%28film%29
Ran — taking King Lear as its basis to tell the elegiac story of an ageing warlord in the Sengoku period (1467–1573) whose decision to abdicate power in favour of his three sons results in tragedy.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran_%28film%29
Idk if this is the best list, but it was a list that came to mind… I thought of Braveheart, Rob Roy, and several adaptations of Robin Hood — but these seemed obvious and not quite Dark enough.
http://www.cracked.com/article_20186_6-ridiculous-myths-about-middle-ages-everyone-believes_p2.html
I am tempted to delete that list, and say; just go watch Professor Robert Bartlett’s Medieval Mind documentary on the subject.
The dark ages are a clash between old sciences and new sciences, old epistemologies and new epistemologies, old passions and new passions… and it seems the real hard thing to comprehend, is that all sides were often saying the same thing, but through very different lenses, by very different prejudices, and due to very different needs.
Too many languages, not enough linguists… too many linguists, not enough languages. Not really sure which — or if it matters.
SEX & THE CELTS
In every age; An expectation of humans to be human, is the only thing that certainly remains true…
…also — death and taxes.
LOL about the youtube video…
Probably a rather gonzo example and shifting towards Renaissance than Dark Age but certainly incorporating sex…Rutger Hauer in Flesh and Blood. “Plague infested dog parts as siege engine ammunition…what’s not to love about that?”
The sex move for Game of Thrones would be:
When the MC wants to tell the players a long story about the history of the setting, she intermittently describes boobs and butts and penises so the players don’t get bored.
See? Now the uses are paralleled.
Probably why I don’t watch Game of Thrones…
…not all that fond of base jumping gratuitous sharks over breeding tanks of spectacle creep.
Nor am I very fond of having the inherent humanity stuffed in a velvet lined burlap sack and tossed on the safety rails by puppets enforcing maturity blinders.
Some where between extremes reflects the artist expressing an accurate portrayal of one fragment from the shattered mirror that once captured the universe. Even the Hitchhiker’s Guide has an entry on Casual Relationships And Promiscuity, and a note of warning for when it potentially becomes a Self-judging Homage to Immaturity Theater.