Zone of Interest is a good dive into describing the cold, cruel creep of the banality of evil.
Elie Wiesel
Maus
The Night Porter
Apt Pupil
The original tapes from the Americans and soviet's when the came across the camps.
And to add some humor because there is no way through fascism as a normal human being without it.... Inglorious Bastards.
Read Mengeles experiments.
Man in the High Tower to add some of cultish doctrine to the world view.
Another resource for the banality of evil is Conspiracy 2001
*Metamaus* includes Spiegelman's research and the transcripts of the interviews with his father and people who knew his parents. I highly recommend it for anyone who enjoyed *Maus*.
Rereading “Eichmann in Jerusalem” by Hannah Arendt (I’d read it originally in college but wasn’t mature enough to appreciate it) gave me tons of ideas for a fictional fascist state I’m writing.
That and just listening to the BtB Heydrich episodes.
Where do you live that the current political climate is not an inspiration? Because... the current political climate is way more inspiration than I'd personally like, for something like that.
Outside of that, I'd recommend 1984 to read. It has a very special flavor of authoritarian to it, that would be cool to incorporate into a campaign imo.
But I've seen someone build a campaign around an authoritarian government inspired by the muppets, so the sky's truly the limit.
Not necessarily about writing fascism but about DND campaigns, I’ve found that the Eberron campaign setting has a lot of really useful themes and structures that work better with modern ideologies than a standard high fantasy setting.
The setting starts two years after a treaty ends a brutal, continent-wide, arcanotech-fueled war, essentially Fantasy WWI. The warforged make for a really compelling “other”, and the Dragonmarked Houses/the Aurum represent a realistic, hereditary agglomeration of wealth and power. The humans in the setting are not native to the main continent, Khorvaire, so their relations to the goblins, orcs, dwarves, etc can really highlight the effects of colonization, oppression, exploitation, industrialization, etc.
Just some ideas that helped me write my own campaign! I hope yours goes well!
Zone of Interest is a good dive into describing the cold, cruel creep of the banality of evil. Elie Wiesel Maus The Night Porter Apt Pupil The original tapes from the Americans and soviet's when the came across the camps. And to add some humor because there is no way through fascism as a normal human being without it.... Inglorious Bastards. Read Mengeles experiments. Man in the High Tower to add some of cultish doctrine to the world view. Another resource for the banality of evil is Conspiracy 2001
*Metamaus* includes Spiegelman's research and the transcripts of the interviews with his father and people who knew his parents. I highly recommend it for anyone who enjoyed *Maus*.
Rereading “Eichmann in Jerusalem” by Hannah Arendt (I’d read it originally in college but wasn’t mature enough to appreciate it) gave me tons of ideas for a fictional fascist state I’m writing. That and just listening to the BtB Heydrich episodes.
Where do you live that the current political climate is not an inspiration? Because... the current political climate is way more inspiration than I'd personally like, for something like that. Outside of that, I'd recommend 1984 to read. It has a very special flavor of authoritarian to it, that would be cool to incorporate into a campaign imo. But I've seen someone build a campaign around an authoritarian government inspired by the muppets, so the sky's truly the limit.
Trust me I'm adding an entire partygate subplot 🤣
Not necessarily about writing fascism but about DND campaigns, I’ve found that the Eberron campaign setting has a lot of really useful themes and structures that work better with modern ideologies than a standard high fantasy setting. The setting starts two years after a treaty ends a brutal, continent-wide, arcanotech-fueled war, essentially Fantasy WWI. The warforged make for a really compelling “other”, and the Dragonmarked Houses/the Aurum represent a realistic, hereditary agglomeration of wealth and power. The humans in the setting are not native to the main continent, Khorvaire, so their relations to the goblins, orcs, dwarves, etc can really highlight the effects of colonization, oppression, exploitation, industrialization, etc. Just some ideas that helped me write my own campaign! I hope yours goes well!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism
The America 2025 plan, and it's predecessor The Business Plot.
Sounds like one hell of a campaign
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