Gurps Castle Falkenstein: The Ottoman Empire

by Masters, Phil

• ISBN13: 9781556345753
• ISBN10: 1556345755
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Psi

Table of Contents

Introduction	4	(1)
Eastern Questions	5	(16)
Circumstances Within the Ottoman Empire	6	(3)
Ottomans Elsewhere	7	(1)
Eberhardt Starkmann	8	(1)
Travelling Eastward	9	(1)
The Ottomans: A Historical View	9	(7)
Constantinople	10	(1)
The Ottomans	10	(1)
The Empire	11	(1)
Soloman and Suleiman	12	(1)
A Golden Age	12	(1)
The Ottoman Decay	13	(1)
What About Egypt?	13	(1)
Chronology	14	(2)
The Government of the Ottoman Lands	16	(2)
Nonhuman Races in the Ottoman Empire	18	(2)
Travel in the Ottoman Empire	20	(1)
Characters	21	(17)
Castle Falkenstein	22	(3)
Ottoman Currency	23	(1)
Turkish Education	24	(1)
Gurps	25	(2)
Advantages	25	(1)
Disadvantages	25	(1)
Gurps Status in the Ottoman Empire	26	(1)
Skills	27	(1)
Ixarette	27	(1)
Possible Character Types	27	(11)
Bazaar Entertainer	28	(1)
Expatriate	28	(1)
Local Spy	29	(1)
Gurps Job Table	30	(1)
Noble Ottoman Adventurer	31	(1)
Old-Fashioned Adventurer	32	(1)
Ottoman Dwarf	33	(1)
Sample Turkish Personal Names	34	(1)
Runaway Slave	34	(1)
Street Brat	35	(1)
Unemployed New Europan Mercenary	36	(1)
Young Turk	36	(2)
Into the Empire	38	(20)
Through Europe to the Capital	39	(8)
Passing Greece	39	(1)
To Istanbul	40	(1)
Murder in Pera	41	(2)
Ottoman Behavior	43	(1)
A Diplomatic Guide	43	(2)
The Gift	45	(2)
To the Levant and the Euphrates	47	(5)
Through Anatolia: to Angora and Beyond	47	(1)
The Levant	48	(1)
Scenario Seed: Rivals for the Railways	49	(1)
Evil in the Desert	50	(1)
Lady Explorers	51	(1)
The Land of Two Rivers	52	(6)
Down the Euphrates	52	(1)
A Thief of Baghdad	52	(1)
Mechanical Wonders	53	(2)
Hassan ``al-Baghdadi''	55	(1)
Meeting by Moonlight	55	(1)
An Absence	56	(1)
Kidnapped!	57	(1)
Notes on Arabia	58	(9)
The Politics of Arabia	59	(1)
The Role of the Sheikhs	59	(1)
Burton's Pilgrimage to Mecca	60	(1)
The Bedouin	61	(1)
The Empty Quarter	62	(1)
Creating Characters	62	(3)
Castle Falkenstein Abilities	62	(2)
Arabs, Education, and Medicine	64	(1)
Gurps Considerations	64	(1)
Character Types	65	(2)
Arabian Merchant	65	(1)
Bedouin Warrior	66	(1)
Meetings in the Desert	67	(10)
A Small Hope	71	(1)
Count Nikolay Ignatyev	72	(1)
The Wahhabis	73	(1)
Saved by a Madman	73	(4)
Charles Montagu Doughty	76	(1)
On Arabian Magickal Arts	77	(17)
Magickal Orders in the Middle East	78	(7)
The Dervishes	79	(1)
Dervishes in Gurps	79	(3)
Secular Orders and Traditions	82	(3)
Magickal Books & Sources	85	(9)
``New Europan'' Books	85	(1)
Thaumic Cost Summary	86	(1)
Other Volumes	86	(1)
A Typical Ottoman Wizard NPC	87	(1)
Playing Ottoman Wizards	88	(1)
A Typical Dervish Wizard NPC	89	(1)
Cantrips and Wards	90	(1)
Playing Dervish Wizards	91	(1)
The Bedouin Tradition: Sha'ir	92	(1)
A Typical Sha'ir NPC	92	(1)
Playing Sha'ir	93	(1)
Confrontation in the Dolmabache	94	(11)
In the Dolmabache	95	(3)
Midhat Pasha	96	(1)
Aziyada the Circassian	97	(1)
The Sunderer	98	(2)
Characters of the Sublime Porte	100	(4)
Sultan Abdul Aziz	100	(1)
Prince Murad	100	(1)
Prince Abdul Hamid	100	(1)
Mahmud Nedim Pasha	101	(1)
Pertevale	101	(1)
Mihri Hanoum	102	(1)
The Kislar Agha	102	(1)
Eunuch Guards	102	(2)
Departure and Return	104	(1)
The Tragedy of Mihri Hanoum	104	(1)
Concerning the Djinn	105	(11)
Of Solomon and the Bound Ones	106	(4)
The Classes of the Unclassifiable	106	(1)
Constraints Upoin Djinn-Kind	107	(2)
Religion and the Djinn	109	(1)
Djinn Sorcery?	109	(1)
Tom Olam's Notes: Djinn in Play	110	(6)
Typical Djinn in Castle Falkenstein	110	(1)
Djinn Powers	110	(1)
Typical Djinn in Gurps	111	(1)
Gurps Djinni Racial Package	112	(3)
Playing Djinn Characters	115	(1)
APPENDIX: THE BOOK OF ABDUL THE MAD	116	(8)
On the Revealed Nature of Arabian Magick	116	(1)
The Enchantment of Objects	117	(1)
The Nature of Enchanted Matter	117	(1)
Categories of Artefact	117	(6)
Djinn Prisons	117	(1)
``Servant-Artefacts''	117	(1)
Servant Artefact Game Mechanics	118	(1)
Empowered Items	118	(1)
Empowered Item Game Mechanics	119	(2)
Examples of Empowered Items	121	(1)
Game Mechanics	122	(1)
Freeing and Manipulating Bound Energy	122	(1)
Use of Faerie or Human Life Force	122	(1)
The Mad Author?	123	(1)
Editorial Afterword	124	(1)
Bibliography	125	(1)
Index	126