@tragedyjones said in CoD - Victorian - Penny Dreadful-ish.:
Didn't The Great Game also face a tide of outcry and revamp into a modern game? Or did I make that up?
I'm not sure if it was "a tide of outcry" (the population was never really high enough to generate a tide of anything), but it did indeed go from 1899 to modern. There may have been another game by the same name, but the Spider London Mage game definitely underwent a timeshift. And there was also The Greatest Generation, which probably didn't help with name confusion.
@surreality said in CoD - Victorian - Penny Dreadful-ish.:
I love how crystal clear their opinion of themselves is, right there in the name.
While I think it's totally plausible that the name was chosen for self-aggrandizing reasons, I had always just sort of assumed it was called "The Great Game" because they intended to center the game around geopolitical conflicts among the European powers during the end of the Victorian Era. But then, I am notorious for either "preferring to think the best of people" or "failing to notice the totally bloody obvious", depending on how nice you feel like being. More the latter than the former, in this case.