Pyramid Review
Casablanca: An Exotic City Sourcebook (for Mean Streets)
Published by Deep7
Written by William Jones
Cover by Gregory Price
Cartography by William Jones
35-page 2.68 Meg Zipped PDF Document; $4.95
The city of Casablanca promises a near unique blend of flavors, bringing together the exoticism of Arabic North Africa and the French chic represented by its colonial empire. Despite the enduring popularity of the 1942 film that helped to make the city so famous, the roleplaying game has for the most part ignored its warm and dusky climes.
But with the release of Casablanca: An Exotic City Sourcebook, we have the chance to go back to the city at the time of the film and more. Intended for use with Deep7's Mean Streets, it takes the dark and moody action of that XPG away from the shadows of America's skyscrapers and east across the Atlantic. Its time frame is roughly 1938 onwards, when Morocco is divided into two protectorates, one Spanish and one French. The port of Casablanca lies in the latter, and with the onset of war, becomes a focus of Axis and Allied attention. The political situation is made more difficult during Germany's occupation of France and the establishment of the Vichy Government, which continued to administer the French Protectorate of Morocco. This did not stop the Nazis from using their influence and more to crack down on members of the French resistance or on the members of Allied Intelligence operating in the city.
This is in addition to the peaceful, non-militant . . .
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Article publication date: November 5, 2004
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