I think that InSpectres (or something like it) could do the job very nicely. Take a piece of interesting hole in the historical record, and place the historians as the players involved who know what really happened. Each historian can pull in genuine historical knowledge that they have to get some sort of mechanical bonus, but no one knows for certain what happened behind closed doors.
The issue there is that you need to pick a good moment in history where the unknown is interesting, known decently to the academics who don't cover the timeframe, and which can have that conspiratorial sense that it explains more about history than what actually happened.
Or start the situation off with something explicitly non-historical. Perhaps you play Executive Decision and take the roles of President Truman's cabinet dealing with the UFO crash at Roswell. Or would that wind up too out there for stuffy academic types?
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Date: 2010-03-11 07:30 pm (UTC)The issue there is that you need to pick a good moment in history where the unknown is interesting, known decently to the academics who don't cover the timeframe, and which can have that conspiratorial sense that it explains more about history than what actually happened.
Or start the situation off with something explicitly non-historical. Perhaps you play Executive Decision and take the roles of President Truman's cabinet dealing with the UFO crash at Roswell. Or would that wind up too out there for stuffy academic types?