Sorcery & Steam: got it in my hot little hands...

[Carnifex]

Picked this up last night and have spent about an hour going through it so far...

I'm very pleased so far although the subject matter could easily have covered 3 books.

Aren't you lucky that both Steel & Steam and Steam Trains & Sorcery will bring the material covering steamtech to a total of 3 books then?

This book is definitely very class/Prc focused, with that content forming the largest individual section. The equipment section is thinner than I expected, but quite adequate. I really appreciate the "meta" content in this book ( and in other FFG books, like Dungeoncraft ) that help a DM brainstrom plausible ways to introduce advanced tech into a campaign or to build one from scratch.

Hmm. Steam & Steel is less heavy on the whole class/prc thing, with instead lots of equipment and options for customising styles of steamtech (different engines varying from conventional fuel-burners to ones powered by arcane energy or necromantic fuel, and even wierder ones, different materials, etc), as well as lots of the "meta" style content too. There are 5 PrC's in Steam & Steel but that's it - I deliberately wanted to avoid putting in dozens, in fact, and tried to keep the number down. Rather than class/PrC, Steam & Steel's steamtech concepts are based on skill & feat stuff, with the PrC's just illustrating various interesting avenues of progress (one of my favourites is one called the Mechanist, and Crothian, who was one of my proofreader people, likes the Balloonist).

Out of interest, how many pages is Sorcery & Steam?

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

Aren't you lucky that both Steel & Steam and Steam Trains & Sorcery will bring the material covering steamtech to a total of 3 books then?



Hmm. Steam & Steel is less heavy on the whole class/prc thing, with instead lots of equipment and options for customising styles of steamtech (different engines varying from conventional fuel-burners to ones powered by arcane energy or necromantic fuel, and even wierder ones, different materials, etc), as well as lots of the "meta" style content too. There are 5 PrC's in Steam & Steel but that's it - I deliberately wanted to avoid putting in dozens, in fact, and tried to keep the number down. Rather than class/PrC, Steam & Steel's steamtech concepts are based on skill & feat stuff, with the PrC's just illustrating various interesting avenues of progress (one of my favourites is one called the Mechanist, and Crothian, who was one of my proofreader people, likes the Balloonist).

Out of interest, how many pages is Sorcery & Steam?

Yes, Carnifex I am definitely looking forward to your book too. I wish I was one of the lucky ones you asked to proofread for you... I can see how yours will be very complimentary to Sorcery & Steam - which is 170 pages + a few ads in back. Feels shorter than that, as it is a real page turner...

 

[der_kluge]

Wow, another Artificer class. That must be, I don't know, the 80th so far.

And it sounds like it suffers from "Decker" syndrome.

Decker being the class from Shadowrun that would cause everyone *NOT* playing a Decker in the party to sit on their collective asses for 3 hours while the Decker "did his thing" and the rest watched him make tons of dice rolls. Nice.

Does it have anything to do with tinkering, for those of us not using Steampunk, per se, but just want to add some tinkering to our games?

 

[Gellion]

Wow, another Artificer class. That must be, I don't know, the 80th so far.

The more the better.

 

[Lizard]

Another of the Sorcery & Steam writers chimes in...

And another.

I've been running a "spring and steam" campaign for some time, so, I got to put a lot of stuff from that into this. (I did the non-vehicle equipment stuff...) I'm glad everyone seems to be digging it.

 

[jasamcarl]

The only thing the book didn't have that I thought would have been kinda cool was a chapter on constructs -- a "monster" section, so to speak.

Off topic, but i just noticed your sig..Oingo Boingo fan...bravo.

 

[Krug]

Wow, another Artificer class. That must be, I don't know, the 80th so far.

No if it's a normal class it's about the 24th, if it's a prestige class, it's about the 68th.

 

[Desdichado]

Off topic, but i just noticed your sig..Oingo Boingo fan...bravo.

What, you mean there's people out there that aren't? Anyway, yeah, Danny Elfman's career fascinates me.

 

[Banshee16]

Just managed to grab my copy of the book tonight, starting to look through it. Looks cool.

Banshee

 

[NiTessine]

I'm still waiting for it to reach this far shore... Which is kinda annoying, since I've got a steampunk campaign starting on Monday. Well, at least I'm not running it.

Perhaps, with this and BESM D20, I can finally bring to life the anime/steampunk game I've been planning.