Belle Époque

This game takes place in the period known as the Belle Époque, dated between 1871 and 1914, ending when World War I started. This is the time and the fictional place where Umberto Eco’s Simone Simonini – the most cynical and disagreeable character in the History of literature, as the author meant him to be – crosses paths with Jacques Tardi’s Adèle Blanc-Sec,Edgar Allan Poe’s Chevalier Auguste Dupin and Maurice Leblanc’s Arsène Lupin, amidst anarchist bombings, the echoes of the Dreyfus affair, the catastrophic side effects of secret societies conspiring in the shadows and the mysterious results of experiences conducted by mad geniuses. Not yet pulp, not quite historical, it is neither the right time nor the right mood for Steampunk or Dieselpunk. Welcome to the times of Nouveaupunk! (178 pages) Belle Époque is a MicroRed Game Belle Époque includes a summarised rendition of the Wretched Époque setting however, while Wretched Époque was merely a setting, dependent on the Wretched RPG core book to play, Belle Époque is a complete game, incorporating a condensed version of the Red rules, MicroRed.