Principia Malefex is a modern horror
roleplay game, where the horror comes from within
the characters as often as from the world around them.
The characters dream of becoming heroes, fighting
their unseen demons, but all they are likely to do
is to end up missing the real problems.
To say the game is dark is an understatement but the
horror does not come from some insubstantial entity
with too many body parts, but instead from inside
the mind of the character. Welcome to a world where
magic is a rarely seen, yet ever present, threat and
the worst of your enemies are human.
The game is listed as suitable for
mature gamers only, not because of explicitly horrific
details, but because it has large grounding in the
real world. There is no bloodfest of nasty creatures
to be obliterated, or evils you can fight and destroy.
The enemy is never so easy to recognise. There is
darkness inherent in the world now, fed by apathy.
It is too late to fight it, and impossible to ally
with it. And you can't give up now. That's what everybody
wants you to do.
From the Principia Malefex website, which can be found
at www.malefex.com
