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We are pleased to announce the launch of the SteamCraft Mucker’s Guide (Player’s Guide) on Kickstarter. Funding runs through 11:59 PM PDT on May 24th. Please help us out by backing and sharing information about the project...

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Just FYI for anyone that comes across this. UH is attempting to patent part of their game rules. They have filed a process patent for taking a character from one genre and moving it to another. So, any game that does that will be in violation of their patent. Here is the patent...

Perilous Journeys is pleased to announce the launch of SteamCraft RPG: The Supplements Edition Kickstarter. The purpose of the Kickstarter is to speed up the development and release of supplement for SteamCraft. The reward tiers are designed to cater to new and existing SteamCraft fans, so...

Is there any good summaries of the game mechanics posted online?

Maybe I should rephrase this to be in a class/level model like D&D. The reason is everything scales up. It doesn't work for the progression of these games to have small threats all the time. Now, in a non class/level game where there isn't a meta-level scaling built in, then it one could...

There are a variety of strategies that maximize your profits. It is a multifaceted approach and your options do not seem to be the best ones. What you want to do is sell products at a level where you make a profit. This usually precludes any items for free. You want to charge for most...

In terms of fantasy, the threats needs to escalate. If things go on long enough, then it can end up with something similar to you have to save the world. Usually, players get tired and want new PCs so I have only done a save the world thing once or twice. Outside of fantasy, I have never run...

Why can't the world just end? Or at least change in relationship to their failure. I understand your point, but it seems that the problem is not just the structure, but also the GM. I have no problem letting the players lose even if that means horrible consequences for the game world.

As I see it, steampunk is an aesthetic in search of a genre. The term is applied to either a certain look or a certain quasi-historical time period. The best way to to make things useful is to have steampunk as an overall category like sci-fi or fantasy. Under that would be genres such as...

How did you decide you wanted to review Mana Punk? Just curious. I run into them at cons occasionally. I have looked at their book and already knew it was done in MS Word and lacked art. From hearing him talk, he was open that it used the original Shadowrun system, although he called it d6...

Have you looked at FATE? It does a lot of what you want and it is designed to be hacked for your own needs. It is available as a pay what you want PDF from DTRPG.