Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Grind Steampunk Football Rules
Rules Steampunk
The rules for Privateer Press’ Grind game of steampunk football are available as a free pdf.
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
When Dreadnaughts Ruled The Sky Victorian Science Fiction Rules
Rules Steampunk
When Dreadnaughts Ruled The Sky is a nicely done set of rules for Victorian Airships. Unfortunately, you have to join the Military Army Campaigns Yahoo Groups to get it.
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Sunday, March 16, 2008
Steamwork Arena Miniatures Based Fighting Game
Rules Steampunk
Invisible City Productions has a new miniatures game called Steampunk Arena.
Jonathan L. writes:
Steamwork Arena is a quick playing, diceless, customizable, miniature-based fighting game. You’re the pilot of a steamwork mecha in an arena battle with one or more other mecha. During play, you move your mecha miniature around an un-gridded playing area, attacking and being attacked by your opponent(s).
Here’s the big gimmick: You have a special card for your mecha. This card is called a template. Your template keeps track of your health. It also keeps track of which one of 5 modes you’re in. Your mode dictates your attack, defense, energy, movement, and the range of your ranged attacks. During play, you’ll shift from mode to mode as your needs change. As you take damage, modes will shut downť and become unavailable to you. You win the game by dealing enough damage to your opponent(s) to shut down all of their modes.
Here’s the small gimmick: There are no dice. During play, you’ll spend energy to attack and defend. To do this, you hide energy tokens in your hands and your opponent gets to pick a hand. The number of tokens in the selected hand determines how strong your attack or defense is. All tokens in both hands get spent. This “pick-a-hand” mechanic encourages bluffing that’s atypical for miniature games like this.
Steamwork Arena is a game for two to four players, although you could probably play it with more. Steamwork Arena uses miniatures, a large flat surface, small tokens, custom templates, and paper clips.
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008
The Colonel’s Boiler Plated Brandy Snifter Rules
Rules 19th C, Rules Sci Fi, Rules Steampunk
The Colonel’s Boiler Plated Brandy Snifter is a set of free add-on rules for the (also free) Chain Reaction 2.0 rules. The rules are for gaming Victorian Science Fiction skirmishes.
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Friday, April 28, 2006
The Perfect Captain’s Battle Finder
Rules Design, Rules 18th C, Rules 19th C, Rules ACW, Rules Ancients, Rules Colonial, Rules Early 20th C, Rules Fantasy, Rules Medieval, Rules Modern, Rules Napoleonics, Rules Naval, Rules Pike & Shot, Rules Sci Fi, Rules Universal, Rules Steampunk, Rules WWI, Rules WWII, Accessories
The Perfect Captain’s Battle Finder is a set of 64 cards—done in the usual high quality graphics—that you use to generate terrain for your miniature wargames battles. There also are rules for using the cards to create linear campaigns, and maneuver campaigns using the downloadable force counters, order and control markers. There are even revenue and siege rules.
Truly innovative stuff, and something that I’m going to use almost immediately.
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Mars Or Die! Foreign Legion on Mars rules
Rules Steampunk
Regiment Games offers a free set of miniatures rules called Mars or Die for playing French Foreign Legion engagements on Mars. There are rules for all of the necessary things, such as giant four armed, green martians and flyers. And there is also a special events card system which looks like a lot of fun.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Vis Imperia Victoriana RPG
Free RPGs, Rules Steampunk, VSF
Vis Imperia Victoriana is another rpg that may be useful for converting to miniature wargaming. Vis Imperia Victoriana PDF file
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Friday, January 27, 2006
Vaporoare RPG
Free RPGs, Rules Steampunk, VSF
Vaporoare is a role playing game, but as is the case with such, it’s full of ideas for skirmish type miniatures games. The author writes:
Vaporoare is a role-playing game of weird science and mad magi in Victorian-era Europe. It imagines a world where Jules Verne wrote technical manuals for ether machines instead of fiction; Mary Shelley penned the autobiography of Dr. Frankenstein, and H. P. Lovecraft didn’t know what he was getting into. It is the world described by Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Dunsany and J. R. R. Tolkien. Europe is alive with races of fiction: elves dwarves and gnomes. These people have lived together since the beginning of time, and now they face their greatest challenge: the Industrial Revolution. Magick is dying, and technology is on the rampage.
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Thursday, January 26, 2006
Steamworld Daleth
Free RPGs, Rules Steampunk, VSF
For those of you looking for a different setting (indeed, a different world) for your steampunk games, you could take a look at Steamworld Daleth. The author writes:
Steamworld Daleth is a gothic world on an alien planet. Call it an imaginary country, a geofiction or a follie. During the many years I have worked on Daleth (now over 20 years) the world has become what she is now: a steampunk/gothic world where the echo of the Victorian Age still sounds, but where many odd things are yet to be discovered. It’s a mix of fantasy and reality, a dreamscape of my imagination. Daleth can be used as a setting for the role playing game Intrigue & Illusions, but is not developed as such. Daleth is much more than a mere setting for a RPG. It’s a world with its own dynamics.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Beneath The Waves Naval Rules
Rules Naval, Rules Steampunk
Planned Movement Production offers Beneath The Waves, a
simple fast played board game where you battle steampunk submarines against each other. The game involves crew management, planned movement, all sorts of weapons and more.
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