In recent times, games by designers/creators in Italy (e.g. Brancalonia, Broken Tales, Necrobiotic, to name but three) have been challenging those of the French for the title of 'Most Exciting Concept' (one the French held for a very long time indeed).
To those you can now add Epigoni.
Imagine 'Terry Pratchett's Narritivium, the RPG' ... designed by Neil Gaiman.
Ethan Skemp (Changeling: The Lost) and Jenna Moran (Nobilis) make sweet love in her personal chancel. Nine months later, their child, Epigoni, is born in the City of Mist.
Amidst the physical projections of the idealized versions of actual places in imaginary places born out of fables, myths and fictions, the 'half-story' offspring of mortals and beings made of pure narration, born of the stories humans have been telling each other for millennia, try to forge their own paths whilst Myth Entities and the mindless force of Fate try to railroad them into wondrous, catastrophic adventures.
All this and amazing artwork too!
The Dreaming ... the place everyone's trying to get to, even when they don't know what they're looking for (or why); the place where, it is whispered, you can find your heart's most secret desire (the one hidden even from yourself) ... and, if you're very lucky, live to regret it. Unsettling, disturbing, horrifying, terrifying ... yet simultaneously darkly wondrous and, (oh ... so) alluring, never mind the PCs, the players want to return to it; furtively, in the deepest recesses of their subconscious ... the desire suppressed like a sexual urge they dare not name even to themselves for fear of the consequences, should they ever admit the nature of their secret appetites ....driving them to seek ways to do so when they think no-one else will notice what their actions reveal of their true intent; their Catholic 'occasion of sin' ... their Greek/Shakespearean tragic hero's fatal flaw ... their heart's deepest, darkest desire - all they need do is reach into Shadwell's Jacket and ... widdling themselves in both fear and anticipation ... pluck from it their undoing.
Most get lost on the way (they're the lucky ones ).
Disparateum ... a truly fantastic place, where Madness and Desire dance hand-in-hand beneath the darkened sky, where your dreams come true - and where you'd sell your soul for one of insomnia.
