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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Havilor" data-source="post: 795658" data-attributes="member: 6666">Last time I posted on these boards about From Stone to Steel, I had one person mention that it seemed an excellent resource for Ravenloft.I went out and picked up the Ravenloft corebooks, to see what the good people at Swords and Sorcery had done with the setting.  And found that, in an incredible twist of fate, they done some work on defining certain technological levels and giving some description of the kinds of cultures and items most commonly found at each level.From Stone to Steel does something very similar, breaking down each level by chapter and examining predominant and fringe cultures of that time period, attempting to give as wide a view of the strengths and weaknesses of military developments and practices.  The similarities in the way we divided up time made it instantly obvious that the person who had posted interest was exactly right.From Stone to Steel is an incredible resource for settings like Ravenloft, or other settings that deal with wildly different technological or cultural levels.  It also makes an excellent resource for people who are interested in doing pseudo-historical gaming, who wish to create their own game world at a different technological level than the medieval period, or who wish to incorporate cultural flavor items like those of Russia, China, or Mesoamerica.  In short, From Stone to Steel is one of those rare products that gives added flexibility to the d20 system, allowing greater transition between cultures, technologies, or even genres.</blockquote>

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