Doxy: A Roleplaying Game of Sex and Skulduggery — Print Softback Edition

Life at the bottom of Georgian society is cheap. Gin is not.

Not every woman could afford the status and comparative refinement of a courtesan.

Doxy descends from the drawing rooms into the streets, following common prostitutes struggling to survive in Georgian society.

Can you earn enough to eat?

Enough to drink?

Enough gin to forget how you earned it?

Can you avoid the noose—or transportation?

Sex, Crime and Survival

The characters of Doxy survive through prostitution, theft and even killing.

They exist in constant conflict with the state, the Church and society at large. Yet that society is partly supported by money extorted from their bawds, profiting from the same women it condemns and punishes.

This is a game about people at the bottom of the social order, trying to survive in circumstances that offer them very few safe or respectable choices.

The Darkest of the History Farce Games

Doxy belongs to the same Georgian History Farce line as Tough Justice and Courtesans.

It is also a complete roleplaying game in its own right.

Of the History Farce games, Doxy is the most traditional in structure. It includes:

• A full combat system.

• Variations on the mental mechanics used in the other History Farce games.

• Variations on their social mechanics.

• The Beer & Crisps rules system.

• Rules designed around the dangerous lives of lower-class Georgian women.

The official description also identifies it as the least forgiving and most startlingly fatalistic of the History Farce games.

This is not the comparatively privileged competition of the courtesan’s salon or the adversarial performance of the courtroom.

This is survival on the street.

History Farce with Teeth

Doxy approaches a brutal historical subject through dark comedy, farce and roleplaying.

Its characters may steal, deceive, fight and kill, but the threats surrounding them remain severe. Poverty, alcohol, crime, prostitution, execution and transportation are central parts of the world in which they must survive.

The result is a game for adult players comfortable with black humour, harsh subject matter and protagonists who possess very few good options.

Down Among the Doxies

Respectable society despises you.

The authorities are waiting to punish you.

The bawd wants her money.

Your stomach is empty.

The gin bottle is not.

Earn what you can.

Steal what you cannot earn.

Fight when you must.

Try to survive Georgian society with Doxy.

This listing is for the physical print softback edition of Doxy: A Roleplaying Game of Sex and Skulduggery, written by Ian Warner. It is a 284-page, black-and-white A5 perfect-bound paperback. ISBN: 978-1-4716-8081-6. Contains mature themes involving prostitution, poverty, alcohol, crime, violence, execution and transportation.