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SteamCraft Stands Funded

Do you enjoy role-playing games? Perilous Journeys Publishing, the creators of the upcoming game SteamCraft just completed a very successful kickstarter campaign raising $7,091 for a campaign which had an initial goal of $5,500. This campaign will allow the company to produce the very interesting sounding rulebook for the system. The book is set for 216 pages and will be printed on high quality white paper, casebound (hardback) and the binding will be smyth sewn. This looks like it’s going to be a high quality publication to say the least.

SteamCraft is a skill-based steampunk tabletop role-playing game set in an alternate world, where gears, goggles, and coal-powered airships dominate life. It is a world that mixes the scientific wonder of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells with elements of gritty, futuristic cyberpunk. SteamCraft is inspired by late 19th century Earth, where steam power dominates, and the industrial revolution is in full swing. While much is similar to this time period on Earth, technology is more advanced due to the completion and use of the difference engine. It is a world in conflict between the old ways of magic, new technologies, and those who attempt to meld the two for profit and power. For humans, dwarves, elves, and other races, it is a time when society threatens to plunge into either a dystopian future controlled by corporations and authoritarian governments, or one where individuals use information and technology to bring about a better future.

Check out their recently successful kickstarter campaign and their website to learn more!

The Third Annual Archon Picnic

Once again the Airship Archon of Columbus, Ohio is set to gather for food, fun and Nerf action at the Park of Roses at Whetstone Park. This is the third year for the Annual Archon Picnic and, as in years past, this will be a potluck picnic so bring something to share. The group plans to meet at the first shelter house in the park unless someone claims it before them. If that happens, look for their pop up tent and an Archon Banner or flag. Cincinnati, Dayton, Cleveland and any steampunks willing to travel are more than welcome at their gathering!

Learn more about the airship at airshiparchon.com!

2013 Guest Epicurean: Lady Clankington

Lady Clankington will be joining us as a guest for the 2013 Steampunk Empire Symposium. She is a woman of many varied proclivities. Her lust for life is so insatiable, in fact, that mere mortals can never hope to keep up with it. In order to avoid injuring her traveling companions, Lady C commissions the mad Dr. Visbaun to construct infernal devices to appease her appetite…for adventure.

Unfortunately, Lady Clankington exhausts each of his inventions at an alarming rate and must commission from him a new product every now and again, in order to remain satisfied.

In her spare time, the lady reads books, explores foreign lands, and peruses the international network of communications. Dr. Visbaun is far too busy to indulge in any such nonsense.

There are no known photographs or daguerrotypes of Dr. Visbaun. He does, indeed, exist but avoids the camera like the plague, itself.

Learn more about her at littledeathray.com.