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I second Dieter's opinion. If you're looking for some wild mech concepts, then you might like Mech Manual better. But if you want a book with a lot of character "crunch" (feats, steam powers, PrCs) and great PC-development options, then Steam Warriors is for you. And yes, it has the writeu...

By Odin's beard! This is awesome, Joseph! Can't wait to see this up close.

--Ken

Steamborgs remind me of bards, in that you can do a lot with the skill choices and, yes, the intrinsic steam powers to go in a variety of directions with your character, but at lower levels, their abilities don't shines so brightly as those of other classes. (But I think they're the coolest class, t...

Really? Well, color me red -- I was unaware of the d20 Future SRD. I'll have to take a look at that.

--Ken

I agree something like that would be great -- I was a HUGE Captain Harlock fan 20 years ago -- but the DCCs (like most of the d20-based RPG products) out there have to follow the SRD/Open Game Licence in order to use WotC's rules. And at this point, the d20 Future content isn't publicly available. T...

I expect to be there, although something could take priority! My wife and I are in the middle of adopting a child from China, and based on our current guess about when we'll be traveling, Gen Con -- wouldn't you know it? -- falls right in the middle of that window! (At least I'll soon have an excuse...

Ogrepuppy, You'll see more as things get laid out and more art is developed. I can tell you that it's humongous! Lots of surprises, traps, a few cleverly placed shortcuts (to Pain and Death!), and yes, by Odin, there's even a story that connects the whole thing! :shock: For details beyond that, I re...

Yeah, and everything I've edited to date looks awesome. Now if only I can make my Wisdom check to successfully check the continuity of a 500-page, massively multi-leveled dungeon....

--Ken (Harley and I will be the ones gibbering in the corner of the GG booth at Gen Con)

I won't be able to make that, unfortunately -- partly because I'll be busy the following weekend running a DCC at ConnCon in Stamford, CT. (Prereg for that should start in a couple of weeks.)

--Ken

I like this topic, too. Here's a character I added to the pregens when I ran "Just a Delivery" for my Friday night group and at a convention. (You'll see references to a couple of those PCs in his background.) Euripides Blake, Adventurer / Human / Broker http://www.nndb.com/people/987/0001...

Congrats, Richard!

--Ken

Lord Nat, Thanks for the question. The latest release, Almanac of the Endless Traders , covered a lot of fascinating, still-to-be-explored areas of Highpoint, and we hope it'll encourage GMs to create adventures in some of those regions and flesh them out even more. Between it and the other setting ...

walrusjester wrote:We do have rules on turning mechs into magic items - you can have a +2 frost mech, which is kind of cool. I'm blanking on whether the rules are in Mech Manual or Steam Warriors.

They're in the Elven Mechs chapter of Mech Manual.

--Ken

OK, who else is watching this? I'm loving it so far. Hiro rocks! Good mix of characters, and I like how some characters who seem "good" may be EEEvil.

--Ken

I'm running my group through Halls of the Minotaur now (placing it in the DragonMech setting), and they had the same questions about 0-level characters, i.e., how exactly does this work? I explained things pretty much the same way that Harley has. The simplest thing to say is that the XP table in th...

I'll follow up on private message. Thanks.

Are you looking for people running Etherscope campaigns? I live in north Jersey, but the group isn't doing Etherscope at the moment. My players have tried and enjoyed it, but I have them at the start of a DragonMech story right now.

--Ken

Harley Stroh wrote:All right, all you Superfan battlemap junkies: here is some of Ben's finest work to date. As seen, used, and abused at GenCon, the collected...

Halls of the Minotaur maps!

Wow... that's nice. Terrific work, Ben, and thank you, Harley.

--Ken

Yeah, Ravenloft rocks! Especially the 3E version. I was able to run a year long campaign before everyone became too tainted etc... Jeff and I have traded plenty of e-mails in recent months about our fondness for the Domain of Dread. DCC #5, Aerie of the Crow God, has served as the turning point for...

I ran "Triple Cross" from The Great Metropolis on Friday morning, and that went over really well. The players had a lot of fun, even though two of the PCs came close to death. (They posed as drug dealers, and only a great Bluff check kept them from being disemboweled by the cult of the Mas...

Great! I'm sure you'll be even happier when you catch up on the other Etherscope releases. Looking forward to reading your reactions and answering any questions you have.

--Ken

Jamat, To answer your second question first, yes, your character does have a maximum number of skill ranks per level. See Table 7-2: Character-Level Dependent Abilities. Regarding the Fighting Technique skills, you need to make a roll against the DC of the manoevre you're attempting from that fighti...

Its not that I find Etherscope lacking, in fact I think it has to be one of the best settings out there currently. But to have a world which uses Etherspace as a technology and not have several scientists out there trying to use it to connect to other worlds is improbable. Thanks for the compliment...

Jamat, You (like any other GM) are free to create any "house rules" you want. If you and your players decide not to use Attacks of Opportunity, that's totally up to you. Personally, I think that they make sense from a combat standpoint. For instance, if you're standing right next to an ene...

Jamat, Delighted you liked Upload: Etherpunk . As for the advanced classes, no, you can't be a 1st-level character with an advanced class. The prerequisites require a certain number of skill ranks, and you can't get those skill ranks without one or (usually) more levels in one of the standard classe...