Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.
Introduce powerful, unique weaponry, gadgets, and other wargear into your fantasy roleplaying campaign.
Written for the world of arcane mystery, macabre fleshwork, and unsettling technology of Gauntlets & Gaslight, but usable in any setting and with any rules system.
What Is This Book?
This is a list of 25 potent, exotic magical items designed to be noteworthy additions to any fantasy roleplaying campaign.
In addition, there are tools, rules, and guidance around the following topics:
The book was written with the following in mind:
- Conditions: The physical and operational condition an artifact is discovered in.
- Mishaps: When critical fumbles happen to potent magic items, it's not enough to just miss the shot... something more... interesting should happen.
- Clockwork Devices: Rules for winding and maintaining magical item machinery that go well beyond "usable 3x/day".
- Occult Magic: Guidance, discussion, and optional rules for the notion of a source of magical powers beyond the arcane and divine.
- Exotic Wargear Quests: A dozen tools and lots of guidance and inspiration in how to take a magican item and build a quest, or even an entire campaign, around it!
- System-agnostic. Rules system-specific language is provided to support 5E, Pathfinder, Pathfinder Second Edition, OSR, and Dungeon Crawl Classics, but the tables and tools and mechanics are easily used in any rules system.
- Any campaign setting. You can easily introduce exotic tech into offical campaign settings like the Forgotten Realms, or use with homebrew settings.
- Easy to use. From first-time G/DMs to those who have developed their own campaign settings, this book is easy to pick up and use however you like.
- Zero prep. As with most IGS and FlexTale titles, this book was designed for time-crunched G/DMs to be able to pick up, flip to a page, and immediately be able to run what they find.
Why Do You Need This Book?
Sometimes, you want to give the PCs something a little more intriguing than a +2 longsword.
Magic item resources and lists aren't anything new. But this is the first such Catalog that introduces exotic, fantastical, bizarre, and formidable artifacts from the world of Gauntlets & Gaslight--fleshpunk, a blend of gothic horror, mad-scientist fleshcraft, and Victorian-era steampunk that has a vibe and aesthetic all its own.
What's In the Book?
It's a list of 25 cool and weird items, yes. But it's so much MORE than that.
Exotic Wargear Quests
Provides a structure, flow, and a dozen tables and tools and optional rules to create Quests and campaign story arcs around the discovery and use of exotic magical artifacts.
Conditions, Mishaps, Clockwork, and Occult Magic
Optional rules and notions that make exotic magical items even more interesting, scary, and dangerous.
The Exotic Items Themselves
The meat of the book, of course. Each item gets 2-5 pages all its own. In the vein of the Artifacts & Artifice series of books from IGS, each magic item gets enough material, inspiration, and lore to build adventures around them:
- Stat Block with all the vitals presented cleanly up front
- Discovery read-aloud text
- Discovered Condition table
- Variations table with a handful of different versions of the device
- Rumor, Common Knolwedge, History and Notes to inspire introducing the item to the PCs
- Usage and Identify Requirements describing how the party can learn about the item and unlock additional powers
- Actions and Usage that describe the item's abilities
- Custom Mishap table to introduce malfunctions and disasters unique to that item
The Items
Volume 1 contains the following items:
- Blade Pistol
- Bloodforge Lance
- Bloodforge Lance, Greater
- Clockwork Handcannon
- Clockwork Handcannon, Focused
- Clockwork Handcannon, Magnum
- Clockwork Skeet
- Crystal Pistol
- Crystal Pistol, Warped Matrix
- Essence Injector
- Essence Injector, Chirurgeon's
- Essence Injector, Corrosive
- Bleaquelab Headdress
- Dire Respirator
- Crabmantle
- Cuff of Command
- Cuff of Domination
- Darkphage Scimitar
- Darkphage Scimitar, Energized
- Darkphage Scimitar, Kinetic
- Essence Pod
- Essence Strikepod
- Experience Reservoir
- Forgeblade
- Forgeblade, Pyroclastic
Rules Normalization
This book can easily be used with any fantasy TTRPG rules system. Formally, it includes rules language (DC, saves, ability scores, modifiers, etc.) that support 5E, Pathfinder, P2E, OSR, and DCC.
Concepts translate differently amongst these systems, so this book also includes an extensive Appendix, which offers a complete, yet easy to use discussion on how various concepts translate amongst the supported rules systems.
This book uses a common rules language for simplicity and ease of use, but makes it simple and accessible for even novice G/DMs to use the book with any of the supported rules systems.
What is Gauntlets & Gaslight?
Mad science meets steampunk, by way of Ravenloft.
Automata, constructs, fleshbots, zombies. Things that should not be, given life by experiments that should not have happened using a combination of energies that should not work.
Nothing in this land makes sense, and within all feels alien, to those from outside it. Everything that moves, and much that is dead and silent, evokes the very deepest and darkest parts of our fears.
Welcome to the fallen nation of Nycarrad. Welcome to the birthplace of technology, magic, and a combination that is unprecedented anywhere in the Realm.
Welcome to the world of fleshpunk.
Player's Handbook and Other Tomes
Check out the Gauntlets & Gaslight Players' Handbook for more in-depth fleshpunk awesomeness.
The Gauntlets & Gaslight Exotic Technology Guide expands on many of the topics briefly covered in this Catalog.
Check out the FlexTale Artifact Command Word Toolkit for a host of awesome tools to make activating and using powerful items a little more interesting and compelling than "I use the wand to cast lightning bolt."
Walking horrors of mechanical and organic design now inhabit and dominate the former kingdom of Nycarrad in Aquilae, the campaign setting in which Infinium Game Studios’ adventures take place.
That said, there’s no reason you couldn’t take these concepts and drop them right into any campaign setting or homebrew.
The books of Gauntlets & Gaslight describe weapons, armor, items, machinery, tools, vehicles, monsters, characters, spells, classes, factions, and more that breathe new, exciting, macabre life into your fantasy RPG campaign.
Hardcopy Imminent
At IGS, we believe you should always get the digital version of a title for free if you buy the hardcopy version.
The softcover and hardcover editions of this book will be available for order sometime likely in August 2026. Once those hardcopy editions are published, everyone who already bought this PDF version will automatically receive a discount code to order the hardcopy edition of your choice at-cost. So there's no reason not to buy the PDF version now and check it out
Onward!
(Dungeons & Dragons)
Rulebook featuring "high magic" options, including a host of new spells.
