FACTORY: A compendium of magical computers, robots, and dweoware

[Perpetrated Press]

Here comes the second book from Perpetrated Press !

FACTORY

A compendium of magical computers, robots, and dweoware

With the equipment and rules in FACTORY you can:

Create your own robotic player character using the 7 character robot models (domestic, service, sports, security, industrial, military and companion) and more than 50 robot upgrades.

Customize the 9 stock robots with over 50 robot upgrades to create a nearly limitless assortment of unique magical machines!

Design your own powered battlesuit from 3 stock models and 50 upgrades.

Mix man and magical machine with over 200 dweonetic items, from adrenal stimulators, aural masks, and dermal weaves to faithguards, flux generators, hidden blades, muscle grafts, and visual translocators!

And much more!

FACTORY
Product Number: PTD1001
ISBN: 0-9721358-1-2
Perfect-bound, approximately 160 pages
Price: TBA
Release date: March, 2003
Author: Erik Kjerland
Front Cover Art: Karl Altstaetter
Back Cover Art: Chris Noeth
Interior Art: Bradley Beeker, Ruben de Vela, Andrew Dobell, Scott Druin, Juha Harju, Craig Henderson, Drew Johnson, Danilo Moretti, Austin Stewart

Mechanize your d20 campaign into an age of technomagical proliferation!

 

[Leopold]

your products are gonna make me broke..

 

[netnomad]

Damn you!

I postponed my Dragonstar Campaign until I got Arsenal now I have to wait again for Factory!

Grrrr.

So when is it due?

-NetNomad

 

[The Black Kestrel]

Sweet! Are the battlesuit creation rules going to be compatible or at least easy to WarMech or D20 Mecha?

 

[Perpetrated Press]

Release date, compatibility,

FACTORY will be released in March 2003.

I don't currently have plans coordinate my powered battlesuits with WarMech or d20 Mecha. It is something worth looking in to, perhaps.

 

[Leopold]

Re: Release date, compatibility,

FACTORY will be released in March 2003.

I don't currently have plans coordinate my powered battlesuits with WarMech or d20 Mecha. It is something worth looking in to, perhaps.

or post a web errata on how to convert it from one system to the other. That in and of itself would make me like this product even more..

 

[jaults]

    Is there anything in this book (or in Arsenal) that precludes the items from being used in a tech only game, rather than a technomagic game?

Thanks,
    Jason

 

[Perpetrated Press]

tech only

There is nothing in Arsenal or Factory that precludes the items from being used in a technology-only game, as opposed to a technomagic game. In fact, I've written a little blurb for Factory that gives advice on how to use the items without a magic cause.

Basically, you only need to assume that each weapon/item's effect is the result of technology instead of magic. Ignore any reference to a magical source/history/background/etc. Remove the susceptibility to dispel magic/antimagic, and there you are.

There may be a few items here and there that may seem too outlandish for a technology game. However, you could just say that such items are so technologically advanced that they are indistinguishable from magic.

Let's take a well-known example from the DMG: Gauntlets of Ogre Power. These are magic wondrous items created by a spellcaster who knows the bull's strength spell. But, what if you want to use them in a non-magical campaign? Well, it's as simple as altering them into a pair of gloves that inject the wearer with endorphins/adrenalin/whatever, granting him increased strength.

Finding a mundane alternative for a magic is probably the most imaginative part of the task.

 

[Tetsubo]

Very cool. You made my morning.

I was going to post a question today asking if there were any future books planned on the same topic as Arsenal. Odd...

BTW, I am very impressed with Arsenal. I think it fits the DragonStar setting better than their own Imperial Supply book does.

 

[jaults]

Re: tech only

There is nothing in Arsenal or Factory that precludes the items from being used in a technology-only game, as opposed to a technomagic game. In fact, I've written a little blurb for Factory that gives advice on how to use the items without a magic cause.

...

Finding a mundane alternative for a magic is probably the most imaginative part of the task.

    Hey, that's awesome. Any chance you need a play tester for Factory? I am in the midst of designing a Sci-Fi campaign that will be starting up in the next few weeks...

Thanks,
    Jason