Tag: steampunk

  • The Four Kingdoms are a group of four dwarven nations, located on an island to the east of the Steamlands, which I have previously mapped. Being a dwarven holding, they are not well understood by the humans of the other lands, but more is understood of the history and geography of the Four Kingdoms than,…

  • This is my first attempt at mapping the Steamlands, the kingdom in which I am now running WFRP 3 adventures. The map was created in Hexographer (the free version) because I’m a terrible artist, designer or drawer. The geography of this kingdom is based loosely on Kyushu, Southern Japan, taking the names and some of…

  • Today I ran a follow-up session of Warhammer 3 (WFRP 3) based in the world where I previously ran a Pathfinder Onsen Adventure. In the first session the players safely completed the first adventure, and now they are ready to explore their world and do a bit of adventuring. I’m running this as a kind…

  • I GM’d Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying 3rd Edition (WFRP3) on the weekend for a group of three players. It was my first time GMing in 18 months, the first time I have ever GM’d WFRP3 in English (up until now it has been Japanese). It was actually the first time I had GMd in English in…

  • Scott Westerfield’s Leviathan is the first in a series of young adult steampunk novels, set in a very close parallel history of Edwardian Europe. They’re light-hearted, fast-paced and fun, and they have some nice new ideas for combining classic steam-tech with biotechnology. The basic setting is Austria and London on the eve of the first…

  • I just received an email from a friend living in the UK, and in the email was this brief review of a night out in London: I went to something the other day which made me think of you – a steampunk night.  It was full of people with elaborate Victoriana/goth/cyber-type outfits.  Among other things…

  • This is another Stephen Hunt novel, set in the same world and with the same characters as the previous two I have read, The Court of the Air and The Kingdom Beyond the Waves. While the last two were definitely steampunk-fantasy, this one has crossed the line to science-fantasy, with a heavy dose of space…

  • I crawled out into the freezing cold with a hangover today to visit the Asami Shrine in Beppu, to burn my 2010 demon-breaking arrow and purchase a new arrow for 2011. Burning the arrow that symbolizes the year before gives one time to pause and think about what one did in that 365 days, and…

  • 52ページ(戦闘)くらいまで読んだ。少しリビューを読んで、考えた。 見た目は、このゲームは面白そうです。戦闘は簡単が、作戦が複雑みたいです。 攻撃解決は簡単:運命(fate)カードを出して、値を能力に足す。敵が同じ感じで防御を決める。最高値が勝ちそうですが、次の一歩は、 「cheating fate」です。負けそうな相手は、「control hand」の別の7枚のカードから出たカードの交換ができる。それにも、特別な「soulstone」というアイテムを使って、カードもう1枚が出せて、 足せる。そして、勝ちそうな相手もそれができる。 トリガー(trigger):いろな事象が他の事象の原因です。これは「trigger」と言います。たとえば、キャラクターが損傷したり、死んだり、魔法の意図になったりすると、事象が起きる。この事象が普通に危ないから、プレイヤーが相手の特技を知らないといけない。 世界:ゲームの物語は、ビクトリア世紀の魔法的なスチームパンク世界です。4つの組がある:「The Guild」(法文の組合);「Resurrectionists」(妖術師);「neverborn」(悪魔);「arcanists」(魔術師)。こ のビクトリア世界の中で、他の世界に行ける「breach」(隙、かな。。。)が発見された。他の世界は「Malifaux」といわれている。他の世界で 「soulstone」の鉱山がある。奴隷が鉱山で「soulstone」を取って、「soulstone」が魔法の支えです。皆さんは 「soulstone」を取るように、戦闘している。 今までそれだけしっている。まだ詳しい言語が分からないですが、基本通訳ができると思う。やってみたい!

  • I’m a big fan of Sherlock Holmes, having read all the stories, including his famous meeting with Harry Flashman, VC, and seen at least part of the classic Brett[1] television series, which is generally acclaimed as the best of the lot. I think Holmes is an important character in the pre-history of both steampunk and…