There’s a kickstarter running for a Steampunk RPG called The Terah Project: Steampunk for Pathfinder. If you’ve ever wanted to play a Girl Genius-style Spark (a character class approved by the Foglios themselves!), this is the game you’ve been waiting for.
I was given a sneak peek at some of the rules-in-progress involving the Spark class as well as that of the Charlatan. Both classes look to offer something more than just a stat-based equivalency for mad scientists and magical Victorian con-men. If I were running the game, I’d expect that these classes would encourage having a home base of some kind (either stationary or somewhat mobile), requiring one to be more attuned to local affairs, as well as role-playing, since the Charlatan’s got a lot of potential for interacting with (and influencing) people. Sure, you can build some kind of giant mechanized cyborg that could destroy whole towns, but you need a garage to park it in, right? And you can’t tell me being someone who could run City Hall by making the right person do the wrong thing at just the worst moment isn’t a great hook. The class reminds me of Pratchett’s Lord Vetinari in some respects, though with access to illusionist spells. I could see some great town/city-oriented campaigns where you not only go off adventuring, you have to keep up on what’s going on back where you hang your bowler hat as well.
It’s also created under the OGL, so most of us already know the basics, right? It’d also give you the opportunity to build that cog-powered dice tower you’ve always wanted.




Ever since the days of the Soundblaster and the CD-ROM drive, I’ve had headphones as a vital computer accessory. I’ve almost never been happy with them. For a long time, I used the larger studio-style headphones, but they had their problems: They were heavy and cumbersome, the leather (or whatever passed for it) would degrade long before the electronic parts would, and later on, I discovered that the pressure they exerted in clinging to the sides of my head would, over time, cause the bridge of my glasses to bend, weaken, and break (even titanium).
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