An awesome setting for d20 Past: Kurt Busiek's Arrowsmith!

[Klaus]

No, no setting book has been written. But there should be one.

Just finished reading the entire 6-issue miniseries "Arrowsmith", by Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco. And it is all kinds of awesome.

Arrowsmith follows the adventures of Fletcher Arrowsmith, a young boy from the United States of Columbia, who volunteers for the Overseas Airmen Corps to fight in the World War in Europe when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. After learning the basic flight spells and being paired with his own red dragonet, he is shipped of to help Gallia and Albion fight Prussia. It's WWI meets Urban Arcana!

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Personally I'd love to see a campiagn situated in the timeframe of the The First North Americans series.

 

[Stormborn]

When I read it I to thought it would be a great RPG. d20 M/P is likely the best choice. Flyers would be Fast heroes with a Magical Talent feat and the dragonet/flying metal would be a requsitioned magic item that initially gives Flight with poor manuevarability and as you gain XP it improves through the stages to perfect. As with a lot of war based games the best choice for a group might be as a special unit from various units that are called together for a special purpose, thus allowing people to come up with all kinds of PCs.

 

[Klaus]

I'd be tempted to use the dragonet from D20 Past, and give members of the Overseas Aero Corps a spell that gives the caster the Fly speed of the dragonet, as long as the dragonet is touching him (orichalc chips are an arcane focus, and last for a few hours at a time before needing replacing/recharging). Wearing those dragonskin wrappings on the legs give the Flyer a bonus to perform maneuvers (maybe even an upgrade on maneuverability).

 

[Karl Green]

I'd be tempted to use the dragonet from D20 Past

Some good ideas there... I was thinking the something similar when I picked up D20 Past myself. I think it would be a GREAT setting book... the art was really cool also

 

[Klaus]

Yeah. I loved how they used concrete to heal the rock troll's arm, or how the ambulance driver (in full Florence Nightingale get-up) spoke of how it was saved from a horde of zombies when her ambulance got overturned.

Or the Prussian werewolf tracker.

Arrowsmith has tons of ideas not only for a d20 Past game, but also for an Eberron "Last War" game.

 

[dougmander]

Gosh that sounds a lot like Naomi Novik's Temeraire novels, except that her books take place in the Napoleonic era.