"Cogs" from Emmanuel Huybrechts. Licensed under Creative Commons.
It’s been a few weeks since I started tweeting the names of fictional steampunk gear – everything from weapons, goggles, and cameras to flying gyrocopters and armored personel carriers. Everything I’ve tweeted so far has been “inspired by” real-life inventions from the 19th and early 20th centuries, and usually I’ve added the inventors name to the title to give a clue as to what I was thinking. The fun part is that a few others have also thrown in their gear into the proverbial hat as well (THANKS!). It’s shaping up to be quite a nice list – each with some cool history behind them too.
So now it’s time to talk about the next step of this little venture. I’m very excited to say that Jerall Toi (Pathfinder RPG Superstar Contest finalist, Kobold Quarterly contributor, RPG blogger at Ten Letter, and prior author here at Nevermet Press) will develop these items specifically for Pathfinder RPG. They will become part of a new project that is forthcoming from Nevermet Press designed to help inject a little bit of steam into your vaporless fantasy, clockwork, or weird western campaign. And yes, I’m being snarky.
What to contribute? Drop me a line and let me know. I’m looking for experienced Pathfinder RPG developers who are willing to work on a royalty basis.
Are you an artist? Well – I’m looking for contributing artists who would be willing to work on a royalty basis too! I have one—perhaps two—currently lined up, but everyone loves a good illustration, so there’s room to play. Soon, I’ll be able to show off some of the concepts that have been developed thus far as well.
Stay tuned for more – and here’s an updated list of #steampunkgear to come:
- Dewar’s Chamber of Unknowable Terror
- Dr. Stanley’s Eicosapentine Oil of Mysteries
- Dr. Ordinaries’ Speculative Elixir of Ghostly Perceptions
- Cognailed Jackboots of the Artificer
- Maskelyne’s Rose Goggles of Clairvoyance
- Watt’s Aether Condensation Chronometer
- Komstock’s Collapsible Gyrocompass (c/o @Vonclockverk)
- Dr. Moreau’s Fumigator of Amazing Animatronic Transformation
- Dieuaide’s Incredible Counterbalanced Rotowagon
- Armstrong’s Pneumatic Difference Hammer
- Muybridge’s Superluminal Ghost Projector
- Babbage’s Cog Lock of Incongruent Thought
- Aether Gas Rifle
- Daguerre’s Soul Scope
- Armstrong’s Hypercontraptor Cannon
- O’Sullivan’s Mysterious Heels of Hell
- Durand’s Indestructible Flask
- Dr. Archbald’s Mechanical Arachnid Mount (c/o @MBlackclaw)
- The Trevithick Railcrusher – a steampowered armored personel carrier
- Trevithick’s Flying Pennydragon - a mechanical, coin operated dragon for riding
- The Davy Arc-Strike Lamp - a lantern that also can be used to shoot lighting bolts
- Fraunhofer’s Magnificent Seeleglühen (Soulglowing) Tonic – a potion that lets you see ghosts
- Reverend Stern’s Steam Powered Stenographer (c/o @MBlackclaw)
- Faraday’s Magnetic Capacitance Rod
- Sturgeon’s Marvelous Magnetomagic Match Matchmaker. Certain anyone a partner!
- Wheatstone’s Enchanted Orchestralphone
- McCormick’s Harvester of Extraordinary Ghostly Peculiarities
- Dr. Babbage’s Incalculable Pneumatic Babblephone
- The Perkins Laughing Dekelvinator Box
- The Vulcan Air Personal Skylift
- The VA Dragonfly
- The VA Brassclad War Barge
- Zaddock’s Man of Steel & Steam” c. 1868 http://t.co/NWwctxl0
- Dr. Macmillion’s Steampowered Velocipede
