Ides of March

By Claire Bradley & Mary Kilgariff

Players: 20

Genre: Roman

The world is out to get Julius Caesar. Scores of people have different reasons for doing so. Clodius wants to take over and become the most powerful man in the world. He has enlisted the help of his gossiping sister, Claudia, for this purpose. He has black-mailed Caesar because Clodius knows the truth about the Bona Dea ceremonies. They worship Caesar and sacrifice virgins to him. Clodius dressed up as a woman to get in to the ceremonies because it’s women only.

Pompey wants Caesar dead. Pompey was the greatest thing before sliced bread but Caesar is now “all that”. He wants it to change and of course he is man to succeed him.

Crassus is the richest man in the world. But he wouldn’t mind being the most powerful as well.

Marcella is Julius Caesar’s wife. She has begun to feel threatened by Cleopatra. Now while she definitely wants to kill Cleo, she may or may not stoop to killing her husband too. She is in charge of the Bona Dea and might decide to offer the cult to the successor of her husband who will probably be Mark Anthony.

Cost: free

Available from: http://www.irishgaming.com/scenario_storage/IdesMarc.zip