Doom Striders! aka Escaflone d20?

[JoeGKushner]

From the old Bastion Catalog, "Catapults and ballistae are the weapons of yesterday’s armies, impersonal tools of warfare that were imprecise and whose loyalties depended on the crews manning them. Doom Striders presents a new type of weapon designed for more heroic play styles and face-to-face encounters. Whether you’re looking for a weapon to throw at your opponents in the next mass combat encounter,
or an effective offense against a dragon guarding its horde, you’ll find something within the pages of Doom Striders. At their heart, doom striders are magical constructs whose purposes are limited only
by the imagination of their creators. Wizards and sorcerers craft them as weapons of war or as a safeguard to privacy; clerics can build them as monuments of faith and might; warriors might seek to lead one into the thickest of combats. The choice is yours..."

This sounds awesome. I hope that some effort is made to incorporate the rules from one of the mass combat sourcebooks into it. If Warcraft is going Cry Havoc, that seems to indicate a great deal of confidence for that system.

Anyone else excited by this? I hope that it's compatible with the mecha from the d20 Mecha Compendium from Dream Pod 9.

 

[Labmonkey-XL]

me three.

 

[Sam Witt]

This sounds awesome. I hope that some effort is made to incorporate the rules from one of the mass combat sourcebooks into it. If Warcraft is going Cry Havoc, that seems to indicate a great deal of confidence for that system.

Anyone else excited by this? I hope that it's compatible with the mecha from the d20 Mecha Compendium from Dream Pod 9.

Thing the first: There is some mass combat goodness in this book, but that's not the sole focus. And there was no cross-pollination with the Mechan Compendium - I'm not sure what DP9 is doing but Doom Striders is a construction kit for building war machines that fall somewhere between golems and magical armor.

Anyway, it turned out pretty cool and I think people will like it - if you enjoyed Airships, doom striders is similar in design concept, with a focus on walking death machines instead of flying ships.

Sam

 

[trancejeremy]

Ulla!