Good d20 Steampunk game?

[Atomic Sunrise]

Hey I was just wondering if anyone could recommend a good quality steampunk book for d20? After playing Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura for PC, I'm in a steampunk mood and looking for a good quality book so I can introduce my group to the genre. Failing that can anyone reccommend a non d20 Steampunk game, which I could also look into.
Any help appreciated,

Atomic Sunrise

 

[Krieg]

FWIW ENWorld's house publishing line is currently having a sale to celebrate the new server. The excellent Steam & Steel: A Guide to Fantasy Steamworks happens to be part of that sale.

It is currently on RPGNow for $2.65...

http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=2848&

Some other options include:

DragonMech - Goodman Games
http://www.goodman-games.com/dragonmech.php

Iron Kingdoms - Privateer Press
http://privateerpress.com/ironkingdoms/default.php

OGL Steampunk - Mongoose
http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/home/detail.php?qsID=353&qsSeries=Core

Steam & Steel & OGL Steampunk are toolkits and do not have actual campaign settings....of course Eberron could easily be used as a more steampunk setting.

 

[arwink]

I'll second Steam and Steel. The modular nature tends to work well with the genre, letting you modify exactly how steam-punky your steam-punk is according to your tastes.

 

[GlassJaw]

I third Steam & Steel!

Necromantic machines are cool.

 

[JPL]

Not d20, and not fantasy-steampunk...but "GURPS Steampunk" is a hell of a book.

 

[jaerdaph]

Steam & Steel is a Steal at $2.65!

I really liked Mongoose's OGL Steampunk and recommend it, but I just bought EN Publishing's Steam & Steel last night for $2.65 and I'm really enjoying it so far. And you really can't go wrong for $2.65. Ronin Arts also has a couple of Steam & Steel support products out too that I'll have to check out sometime.

Edit: How many times can I use "really" in a sentence? Really...

 

[DMH]

If you want a more Victorian kind of steampunk, then FFG's Sorcery and Steam is for you. If not, avoid the book at all costs. About half of it is PrCs and organizations and the steampunk rules themselves are weak. The best part, the introduction, can also be found as the long ad in Cityworks.

AEG's Magic has some stuff on the technomancer, but I can't recommend that either. The class description and the write up are totally different. I wish they had a d20 messageboard to ask why.

I haven't seen a set of rules for steampunk that I like (and I have seen a lot), but the best I have seen for d20 is Steam and Steel.

 

[Kiln Publications]

I would go with OGL Steampunk by Mongoose Publishing.... with a hint of Steam and Steel mixed in.......

 

[Desdichado]

I've also been pretty impressed by the ENPublishing offering, although I still find it extremely difficult to read products that aren't actual books.

I'm not sure what you're looking for, though -- that certainly isn't a game, and it comes with nothing like a setting. It's a rules add-on that can work with D&D, or probably any other d20 game, but you still have to provide the context.

 

[Gospog]

I thought Sorcery & Steam was decent but I have been blown away by OGL Steampunk.

I find the ideas in it inspiring, and it's the best treatment of Steampunk I've seen in a game. I can't speak much to the mechanics, because I haven't finished that section yet.

It's the first book I've seen that pays as much attention to the "punk" as it does the "steam".

As with most D20 projects, I plan to incorporate parts of several different products when I eventually do run my game. OGL Steampunk will most likely be my main resource.