[b]Preview: Haphazard Info and Exposition[/b]

All right, what is Princess the Hopeful and why should we care?

[url=https://princesswod.fandom.com/wiki/Princess:_The_Hopeful_Wiki]Princess the Hopeful[/url] (Tv. Tropes page [url=https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/PrincessTheHopeful]here[/url]) is a homebrew tabletop game, a custom splat based on the [url=https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Chronicles_of_Darkness?so=search]Chronicles of Darkness[/url] (New World of Darkness 2e) setting and system created by White Wolf Publishing, now owned by Paradox Interactive. The homebrew focuses on Magical Girls and Boys (or Magical Women and Men) who are driven to be 'Good People in a Grimdark Universe', fighting for a legitimate cause that does [i]not[/i] give them a guarantee of victory. They fight because a cause is genuinely right, even if they're slated to lose, and that's where the horror of the game line comes in.

Thanks to the reality-warping plague called the [url=https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Contagion?so=search]Contagion[/url] (which exists in Canon), there are significant differences between this world and 'Vanilla' Chronicles of Darkness, namely that [i]Princesses are as powerful as Mages in this RP[/i] (to make sure people don't ignore this ruling, I will be managing everything related to Mages as well as Princesses). Also, Beasts don't exist here for reasons anyone who knows about them can understand. Same for Geniuses (the [i]other[/i] super-popular homebrew for CofD) due to their existence contradicting Mages' plus Genius 2e having made some bad lore decisions, or so I've heard. 

Every other CofD 'race/template/splat' does exist here, though.

But what do we do? Are we part of one single party? 

Yes, you're part of one single group of 6 folk (8 counting GMPCs), whose goal is to prevent the city from going to crap due to partisan infighting between the two [i]fictional[/i] political parties of Beaux Rêve City (the rest of the archipelago will be explored in due time).

Beaux Rêve City is the size of [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington]Wellington[/url], and has a slightly smaller population. The island it stands on, Beaux Rêve Island, is as big as [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_(island)]Hawaii (the island)[/url], with the surrounding environment being similar to [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_National_Park]Olympic National Park[/url], only developed with farms and sawmills and factories, although large parts remain pristine.

There is also a volcano, Mt. D' Albret, named after [URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_d%27Albret]Jeanne d' Albret[/url], a notable figure among the Calvinists in the French Wars of Religion. Said Volcano has a large deposit of red diamonds, the rarest kind of diamond on earth IRL, which in turn makes Beaux Rêve (the nation) extremely rich and important.

The other islands of the archipelago are roughly estimated to be as big as the other islands of the Hawaiian Archipelago; this is to reduce the GM's workload. Also, Beaux Rêve Island is 1609.25 km/621.34 miles away from Graham Island in Canada; a moderately wide stretch of ocean away.

Also, the age of majority and criminal responsibility in Beaux Rêve is 16, including the right to bear arms or join the military. This is as grim as it sounds. That said, the age of consent is counted differently and is still 18, for reasons you all should already know.

Anyway, if you want to play someone, not a Princess (aka any other template in the Chronicles of Darkness except Beast), consult the [url=https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Portal:Chronicles_of_Darkness]White Wolf Wiki[/url].