KOTF OOC Thread

[phonicsmonkey]

hello fellows,

Apologies for surfacing from my lurking, but I happened to catch one episode of a five part miniseries on Australian tv channel SBS last night that you all might be interested in if you haven't already seen it.

It's a French drama called (in English) 'The Accursed Kings', and stars several of the Depardieu family.

I found it very entertaining and reasonably historical, so you all might find it a fun thing to get hold of in order to research your characters and the period you're RPing.

[Vladimir]

Drop by any time.

[The Lemongate]

Les Rois Maudits. Good books. I hope the tv adaptation didn't screw it up too much.

[phonicsmonkey]

Les Rois Maudits. Good books. I hope the tv adaptation didn't screw it up too much.

I haven't read the books although I'm aware of them - the TV series seemed great, the one I saw last night was 'The She-Wolf of France', about the struggle for power after the death of Louis X.

I can't really judge the acting, not being a native French speaker, but the whole tone of it was really soap opera-esque (a great thing in my opinion) and had me gripped on the edge of my seat.

O the perfidy!

Unfortunately I did an interweb search after posting and it looks like it's nigh-on impossible to find an English-subtitled DVD version, so this recommendation may be for Frenchies only, and for Aussies who can catch it next week on SBS.

[_Tristan_]

I mentioned the series while we were looking for a name for the game (I proposed Curse of the French Kings, at the time).

The books ans series are really great. A lot of sneaky plotting, poisoning, and lowly vengeance...

Plus the design of the sets and costume was done by French graphist Phillipe Druillet which gives it a gothic surrealist feel.

Here are some examples of his drawings one and two.

And a link to the official French (sorry...) TV series site.