Hey kids its time to talk about Flintlock Fantasy and to refer settings and other works in the genre. So I think Johnathan Strange and Mr.Norrel fit firmly within the genre and I suggest you read it if you like catty English men. It actually makes me want to write a short story about Napoleonic battle mages. But anyways any other good examples of the genre, no gaslamp remember.
I heard good stuff about the powder mages, griffins and gunpowder, and shadow campaign series as well as temeraire as well as at the queens command.
What are peoples thoughts on the Gentleman Bastards series?
Sorry but lynch is one of the worst authors ever. I don't know why Veeky Forums shills his crap so much.
Chase Evans
The powder mage trilogy, by Brian McClellan, is pretty good. Not a classic that our posterity will read, but definitely a solid read.
Justin Garcia
I plan on making my own flintlock fantasy mixed with Victorian Gothic and Gaslamp settings, avoiding steampunk as much as possible and keeping it both fantastical and grounded in reality, so you still have orcs, elves, humans, magic, dragons, but industry, science, guns, and the works.
>pic is probable town/city art
Anthony Smith
This. The first book of his new trilogy was pretty good too.
Caleb Robinson
I felt that McClellan's first powedermage book was amazing, and had that legendary quality. Same for the second book, but the third one just ratcheted up the stakes too high without proper set up. It was the weakest for me, a somewhat disappointing end to a series that could have been legendary, if the last book was just a bit better.
Landon Sanchez
You might want to look at Lexoccultum.
Henry Butler
I ran a gaslamp game of Stargate:1888 for awhile
Good fun until the Daniel Jackson expy realized he didn't have as much plot armor as in the original series.
Bentley Morris
>Flintlock Fantasy >Posts pics of dudes in early modern uniform with bolt action longarms that still have a ramrod for some reason.
Not off to a great start.
The genre tends to be a little sparse, as most people skip over the 18thC and jump straight from late Renaissance to Victorian in fiction.
>What are peoples thoughts on the Gentleman Bastards series? A great series, with no firearm usage at all.
I disagree with the Victorian themes personally, as they are over done. I really like what MTG's Innistrad (sp?) did with the baroque atmosphere.
Don't forget Colonial Gothic and Khaos:1795, Iron Kingdoms etc.
Also, the kickstarter for the Powder Mage RPG is a thing if you want to look into it.
Jonathan Martin
yeah i realized my mistake pretty fast. The bullpup bolt action guns trigger me pretty hard. But hey I consider Napoleonic as falling within the Flintlock Fantasy A E S T H E T I C on a tangent.
Wyatt Miller
Napoleonic is still firmly flintlock.
Colton Bennett
well i agree in how Victorian is usually presented as a porridge of all the worst cliches and surface elements of the period.
>just put some gears on it
On the other hand my historically grounded games are autistically over researched. Im planning some sort of Steampunk (i can see you hackles raising) / flintlock fantasy, and im nose deep in Burgess's peerage. But then my game is gonna be less girl genius, and more "DIPLOMACY, ALIENATE YOUR FRIENDS" like in real life but with more wacky airships and obviously figuring out what impact that would have on real life history (new methods of transportation, economic oppurtunitys, etc) though I might move my Steampunk egg of an idea straight into WW1 Diesel Punk impregnates lite lovecraft.
Camden Gray
oh wow i did not spell check that at all what should i call the British government organization responsible for Wizards/Magicians. For Napoleonic France I settled for Imperial Court of Sorcerers. Maybe i should give them a livery company?
Nathaniel Morales
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Cameron Cox
>what should i call the British government organization responsible for Wizards/Magician
...The Ministry of Magic?
Christian Wilson
a bit less Victorian, more syphilitic Hanoverian/ Old timey like privy council
Easton Watson
I mean when you say ministry i immediately think of pornography censoring bowler hat wearing civil servants.
Nathaniel Jenkins
His Majesty's Council of the Circle. The Royal Order of Occultists. The Inducted Fraternity of Mystics.
When did this KS end? Will I be able to buy a physical copy if I'm late?
Justin Martin
>that self priming musket I wonder if it would just be the simple matter of opening up the touch hole a bit more to allow the powder to spill into the pan.
Blake Green
I'm running a game where the tech level fluctuates, but mostly falls into Napoleonic and late age of sail. Magitech diesel punk is the high end with the Western Europeanimperialists, and low end being isolationist tribes of elven descendents. One country uses magic to use air pressure fired rifles, which puts them on par in that regard with the magitech dudes. Others use more traditional spell craft more often and think of fire arms as dangerous in the hands of slaves and lower castes. The players right now are kind of determining how these societies might grow and adapt in the future
