文档介绍：VICTORIANA
Clarifications and Errata
Revision , January 1, 2004.
Many thanks to David Crowhurst, Walt Ciechanowski, Tyson Streich & Adam Ness for their work piling errors and requests for clarifications that form
the backbone of this document!
Clarifications and errata are both listed below in chapter order, errata is page noted in red, clarifications in blue.
Society
p43: The punishment for rape in the Typical Sentences chart does not reflect what is in the text above it.
Oops! The sad truth is it depended who got raped by whom. The rape of a noble woman would certainly be discretely
punished by death/deportation. Sadly the women of the middle classes are nowhere near so protected and paltry fines are
considered to be pensation for their ‘inconvenience & fort’. The women of the working classes had no real
legal recourse for wrongs done to them.
It’s also worth pointing out here that under Victorian law it is impossible for a husband to rape his wife. It’s an unpleasant
subject, but such a brutal husband makes a villain that your players will love to hate.
P43: The last line of the second full paragraph references the 1850's as if it were the Victoriana present
As has been admitted on the mailing list, when Victoriana was in its design phase we were extremely torn as to whether the
game year should be 1857 or 1867. The starting game year finally became 1