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==Vice and Steel==

Vice and Steel is a [[roleplaying game]] of intrigue, passion, and human weakness set in a decadent Enlightenment world in the style of works such as ''Dangerous Liaisons'', ''Scaramouche'', and ''The Count of Monte Cristo''. Players take on the rolls of swashbucklers, seductresses, desperate rebels, scheming nobles, and fanatical priests in a world of exquisite elegance and horrid corruption. Where Dust Devils have a Devil, every character in Vice and Steel has a Vice, a weakness or sin that drives them towards darkness and madness. 

In a world of courts and pirates, church and state, ideals and carnality life is a passion play of power, freedom, money, and desire. It is possible for a person of vision to become wealthier than Croesus, more powerful than Caesar, or more despised than Judas. Characters have to face their own weaknesses while trying to scramble up the ladder to attain their goals. Vice and Steel asks the question: "Will your passions drive you to glory or to ruin?" In a world in which everyone is flawed but everyone wants to be great, how does a [[character]] balance between their raw lusts and their nobler goals?