The Steinstreet porject is an attempt to generate a fantasy world based on 16th century Europe for the purpose of giving a base for writing fantasy fiction. It's really that simple. While we intend to possibly develop some game systems around the background at a later stage, for the moment, it's focus lies on the development of a good background for writing.
The plan starts with Hamburg, where we hope to develop an idea of what the city is like when the existence of magic and magical races has an influence upon it. Is the city ruled any differently, are there any curious customs etc.
The rest of the world is also important, our start date sees an awful lot of interesting occurances, including the seige of Viennna. So there is space to write on almost any topic you feel.
The first step however, is to create the world, customs, cities, institutions, all of which are likely to change from the norm. As such, we will be using current historical record as a template and working from there, once we feel confident we've gotten a good background, let the writting begin!