
"In other words, games can and
should combine the sensibilities
of a 1980s cop show with a mutated version of the aesthetics
of a Regency romance."
The quote comes from a sidebox in the adventures chapter of the new GURPS Infinite Worlds: Britannica-6, a new PDF from Steve Jackson Games for their Infinite Worlds setting. And it's brilliant. The "timeline" is a what-if world where the victorian age newer occured, and the sensibilities of the regency period combined with an frantic obsess…