The Road Ahead
Ave, Legionarie
Legio Aeterna is an adventure set in Ancient Rome with a living Game Master. You create a character, choose a starting region, and then decide what you want to do. The Game Master responds to your actions, generates quests based on your situation, and remembers everything.
You can join the legions and wage war, betray factions you once called allies, or construct the grandest aqueduct the world has ever seen. Legionaries on the frontier. Senators stabbing each other in the back. Gladiators fighting for freedom they might never get.
I built Legio Aeterna to scratch an itch. I wanted a game that drops me in the middle of the Roman Empire, grounded in realism, with infinite decisions and choices to make. There was never a game that just let me be in Rome and see what happens. No predetermined story, no campaign missions. Just me, a character, and the Roman Empire. And now there is. I hope you have as much fun playing it as I had building it. Veni, vidi, vici.
FROM HUMBLE ORIGINS
Legio Aeterna started in an airport. I was bored, tired of scrolling through the same apps and the same Wikipedia pages about the late Republic. So I fiddled something together. A very basic text game where I could just type what I wanted to do in Ancient Rome and see what happened. It was rough. Really rough. But it was fun.
So I kept building. Added dice rolls. Then regions. Then careers, factions, an arena, sea voyages, property, skill trees. Each thing I added made me want to add the next thing. What started as something I built for myself because the game I wanted didn't exist kind of took on a life of its own.
THE ROAD AHEAD
There is always more to build. Here is what comes next.
GET INVOLVED
Legio Aeterna was built out of a passion for history, the Roman Empire, and vivid storytelling. If you share that passion, I would love to hear from you: what works, what doesn't, and what you want to see next.
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- Frits
Londinium, MMXXVI