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.

 

[Mucknuggle]

Wicked! This book sounds very interesting. Jow, you an anime fan too?

 

[beta-ray]

Did you mean Escaflowne?

An official Escaflowne adaptation would be awesome!

I guess the description could also apply somewhat to that wooden mecha from Robot Carnival

 

[Vrylakos]

I'm excited. My setting features skyships and recently created 'Armored Legends' - war-golems/mecha. Bastion did a good job with Airships, so I'm hoping they come up with some nice material in Doom Striders. I would not mind having a system delivered to me so that I can stop working on my own rules set...

Of course, it might not do all I want it to, but I can hope, can't I?

Vrylakos

 

[JoeGKushner]

I love anime. BESM d20 does a great job of capturing the anime feel but like AU isn't really D&D compatible.

I've used a lot of elements from the various Steampunk companies like Fantasy Flight, Privateer and d20 Mecah Compendium and am always looking foward to more.

 

[Darrin Drader]

Bastion did a good job with Airships, so I'm hoping they come up with some nice material in Doom Striders.

You may be happy to know that Sam Witt, the same guy who wrote Airships is also designing Doomstriders. I expect it to turn out well and fill a void in the current rules system.

I hope that some effort is made to incorporate the rules from one of the mass combat sourcebooks into it.

I'm assuming that Sam is using the same mass combat system we designed and are releasing as OGC in Oathbound: Arena.