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I didn't know those books. I really only listen to audiobooks for fiction but hopefully some will be available! Michael Moorcock's Oswald Bastable trilogy (Warlord of the Air, The Land Leviathan, The Steel Tsar) have some similar leanings. He also co-wrote a book with Storm Constantine called...

Yeah, The Difference Engine. It has some good ideas, though the story is just OK. I read it when it came out but listened to the audiobook again recently. I'd say better for source material than as a book. As I said in my own post, parsing words about genres isn't what I'm here to do. For me...

I have no issue with the art and wasn't arguing about it... maybe you got me mixed up with someone else? I don't really care one way or the other about how it looks. The new art certainly does have an art deco look to it. I live in NYC and have seen many buildings with vestigial elements like...

That's fair enough, though steampunk and clockpunk can end up being pretty magicpunk, too, depending on how things are handled. They're at least on the same part of town, being reflections of the 20th Century pushed through the looking glass. I still don't like the Eberron world much, but do...

I'm not a fan of Eberron and prefer to do my own worlds, but I do like a good bit of steampunk and clockpunk in my games. So this one is a definite buy.

The game Black Sword Hack has the concept of Usage Die. So you might have it work like this: You use an item, you roll a die of a specified type, D20, D12, D10, D8, D6, or D4 (higher is better). Most Usage dice in BSH are D8s or D6s. If you roll a 1 or 2, the die type reduces. When you're...

A few thoughts about making magic items more interesting. Unfortunately it's possible to end up Monty Hall, for sure, although 5E's attunement system makes that boring because eventually PCs get the items they want and then tend to ignore every other item to come their way. None of these issues...

I just picked up Black Sword Hack by The Merry Mushmen. It's an OSR adaptation of the Black Hack for pulp swords and sorcery in the style of Michael Moorcock, REH, etc. Like the genre it emulates it's written in a lean and mean way. There's tons of info in it and it's a complete game in 110...

I have three campaign worlds. One is quite old, with the roots back in the early '90s. It's got a lot of influence from authors like Michael Moorcock, Katharine Kerr, and Brian Daley. A big theme is the general porosity of the planes, which give a nice justification for the pseudo-RW cultures...