Gothic

by Simon Brind, Anna Katrine Bonnelycke, Maria Østerby Elleby

Lord Byron, the most successful poet of all time has fled his native England to escape scandal and debt. He is accompanied by his personal physician, Dr. John Polidori. He is joined by the radical poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Byron’s one-time lover Claire Clairmont, and Claire’s half-sister, the writer Mary Godwin, who was later to become famous under her married name, Mary Shelley.

Alongside the poets in the villa are Byron’s cadre of servants: William Fletcher, the House Steward, Giovanni Falcier, also known as Tita, Byron’s bodyguard, (Susan Vaughn, a kitchen maid / Robert Rushton, a Valet), and the two maid servants to the Shelley household, Elise Duvillard and Amelia Shields.

The year 1816 is unseasonably cold and dark and the group are largely trapped inside Byron’s villa by the storms outside. To stave off the boredom, they amuse themselves with drink, drugs, poetry, and much darker undertakings.

In this script you will find a copy of all of the materials from the 2023 live action role-playing game, Gothic: the characters, workshops scripts, recipes, briefing notes, and a guide for how to play, and how to organise the game.

304 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2024