Crimes 2ème Edition - Edition Signature

Crimes is a historic role play anchored in the heart of the beautiful era and inscribed in the tradition of classical, fantastic and horrific literatures of the 19th century. In crimes, this period is experienced by its actors as particularly painful: between anti-Semitism, colonial exploitation and drifts of industrial society, without even talking about bellicism that gangrene the world, the sirens of a decadent universe inexorably attract humanity to its ruin.The beautiful era, it is also a peculiarity between a limitless optimism and a melancholy to apocalyptic tones: optimism motivated by the advances of science, the ideals of the Republic and the promises of social revolutions to come, and melancholy Faced with the inevitable decline of humanity, without possible redemption. The criminal fact is the central subject of this game, whose decay is a founding principle: according to this law, any person responsible for a criminal act, whether of a man, a society or a civilization, must pay the price by a gradual decadence. Thus, the passions and the deviances of the characters lead them inexorably towards their own hell: degeneration of the body, madness or other curse. The players embody characters concerned by the crime. Investigators, of course: sergeants of the city, guardians of peace, criminologists, lawyers, alienists ... but also victims or members of the various clubs, coteries, religious fraternities. Ultimate and luxurious view of crimes, the edition " Signature "brings together a single book the criminal manuals and the investigator. Intended for bibliophiles and collectors, this edition has a storage case and is accompanied by the lithographs of the original covers.