Yes please! I have had this constant obession to play a Steampunk DnD Game, but could never find a really decent setting or supplement to use. I always had trouble hunting some down.

I guess my love of Steampunk started with Arcanum, back when I first played it. The concept of steam powered machines mixed with strange magicks has never really lessened. Things like FF6 / FF7 didn't help, and the constant supply of Console RPGs that use Steampunk-esque systems / worlds has never helped either. WoW only fueled it (although I was disappointed with the WoW D20 system, but I tried!)

So, today I sat down and decided to ask the ENWorld Community (www.enworld.org) for help. I posted a thread, asking about a good D20 Steampunk system.

I got a variety of responses, including a PDF that is a supplement that is only $5. I may buy that one, one of these days.

However, in its place I found Etherscope!. This is what I was looking for. I am, honestly, sick and tired of standard fantasy gibberish. I have had my fill of dragons / elves / dorfs / gnomes ect. Yay goblins! I play World of Warcraft, thats enough for me on the Fantasy front

Etherscope is a very Matrix-esque / Victorian styled D20 Steampunk system. Its self contained, and is considered to not be D20 Modern, nor D20 Fantasy, but rather somewhere in between.

So I bit the bullet, and ordered the Softcover Edition of the Core Rulebook. Its got 3 premade adventures, campaign history, DM stuff, character classes, advanced character classes, ect ect. Its everything I am gonna need. At 304 pages I would hope so honestly.

At $30 bucks, it seems like a good buy and I have not found a bad review of the system yet. Its supposed to be very pretty inside the actual book as well.

So here is hoping! I might finally get my Steampunk fix. Of course, I will be the DM but that doesn't mean much to me. And I may only have 2 players (My roomate and my coworker) but who cares!

STEAMPUNK! :O

This is gonna be a LONG post so I am warning you in advance :D

Lets start with Friday. I got home Friday night after my o so boring day at work, and decided I wanted to get out of the house. I ended up going up to Target and wandering around at about 9pm. What was I doing? Being BORED. I ended up however purchasing Guitar Hero 2 with Controller. My god that game is FUN! I finished all songs on Easy with 5 stars, and got 2 new guitars unlocked.

Then I started Medium 0_0. Adding the fourth button makes my head spin. But I shall perservere! I SHALL WIN! Rawr. I got 5 stars on Mother by Danzig, but only 3 stars on 2 other songs :( Sadness. I swear to god that Psychobilly Freakout and Madhouse are gonna make me cry.

Lets move on...to SATURDAY! I spent a wonderfully boring and uneventful day at work, did a couple of things for Strolens, and then decided to head up to Office Depot. While I was there, I saw a nice leather office chair that was on sale. $130 bucks marked down to $64. NICE. I knew that Jan needed a new chair, so I bought it, as her Xmas gift. I also bought an Easel Pad of 50 sheets of 26in by 30in Graph Paper for DND Battlemaps.

Sunday! DND TIME! More comedic action, and I ended up having a talk with Dan, the guy playing the Spellthief. You see, earlier in the week I asked Dan to rate the following 5 things, in order of which he liked best to worst.

Roleplay, Combat, Character Development, Puzzles, Story

He ordered them, from most fav to least fav, as follows:

combat, roleply, story, puzzlse, char development

Note that Puzzles are second to last, and that Combat is way up front.

The Spellthief is a rogue styled class. They excell at sneaking around, and dealing with puzzles, as well as some forms of combat. But a frontline fighter they are not. What does he do? Plays it like a front line fighter. Now, I tried to give him options to stretch the skill powers of the Spellthief by putting locked doors and traps for him to deal with, but truth be told...he sucked at it. In fact, he disarmed 1 single trap out of like 5, and broke one of the 5 so it could not be reset :P He also spent a good deal of the adventure at 2hp or less. Yes, he kept getting owned.

So after a good 30 - 45 min of discussion, and the help of Jess the other player, we convince him to reroll is character as something else. Basically his personality name and history are the same, but everything else changed. I did this so that way he wouldnt feel like he was being punished.

We ended up making him a straight up fighter. 16 STR and 16 CON, 10 every other stat. Has 50 HP at level 4 (he rolled in front of me :P). Has a set of fullplate, a large steel shield, and a masterworks bastard sword. Also has exotic weap prof Bastard Sword, Weapon Focus and Weapon Spec Bastard Sword, and Quick Draw.

Boy hits for 1d10+5 and has +9 to hit. After the change, we finished the dungeon. I asked did he have more fun or less, and he had more. I think he is going to like being a combat powerhouse. I also talked to him about multiclassing as a cleric, to add spellpower and other abilities to the mix. He already is nearly impossible to hit, and by making himself a combat cleric, he becomes even more deadly. I should know, thats what I usually play as :D

All in all it was a good last 3 days. They finished the whole dungeon (Although yelled at me for throwing CR 1/2 zombies at em...come on they should know to carry slashing weapons!:P)

So there ya have it! LONG POST IS LONG

What is Strolen?

Well its really Strolen's Citadel. A Magical place for people like me, who are Tabletop gamer nerds. I mean specifically things like DND, WhiteWolf, and such. Its not really for players, but more for DM's and creators. People who make things like NPCs, worlds, items, and plots.

I really like it. I found it thanks to a contest I entered (have no idea who won yet) I have submitted a couple of things myself.

Check it out if you have time - http://www.strolen.com/index.php