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The changes are probably still part of the internal development process prior to playtesting.

That's exactly the sort of things I hoped people would use the vocation talent system for :)

The document is finished and delivered, only waiting for a list of changes to do the final draft. :) The advantage of OGL Manga over BESM d20 is that it is more fully entrenched in the d20 ruleset. While I do like BESM d20 (and even contributed to it ;) ), I feel that it pasted Tri-Stat on d20...

The main usefulness for OGL Steampunk games is that all the new features for artificial character types is organized in trees, and there's an easy system to select them as talents. And if you don't like the CoGS as they are presented, The Artificial Hero's Handbook allows you to design your own...

I would play :)

Gah! You're completely right and my head was somewhere else. Still, the purpose for the size limitation on vehicles was to account for all sort of clunky machinery; an ordinary bike would be Medium, right, but a tinkered over bycicle with a voltaic battery, autodirectional handle and a...

Thing is... my bycicle takes up more storage space than a big dog... remember that size categories are not about dimensions or even about mass, they are about general space. At least for the Amazing Machines system, I envisioned the 5-foot squares occupied by the machine rather than its...

Hmmm... ok; you can bend the rules and have the hapless wearer of such a contraption be its power source, and thus it occupies the slots reserved for a power source instead of those of a passenger/rider. You have a point, but if you want to build a bycicle... well, use the normal Craft...

That would depend... you could install a Feat on the skates to give the wearer the Run feat and make a judgement call that installing it multiple times would increase the speed at which the character moves. For flight, you can install a Magic Effect to cheat a little. One limitation on flying...

Welcome to mad science :) Well, each size category covers a wide range of actual physical dimensions. A bycicle would be Large, but is on the lowest end of the Large scale opposite a steam-powered battle armor that is bordering on Huge, which also explains why a horse and a lion are both...

Which I am ;) Replace "riders" with "occupants".

Note that the Open deficiency refers to machines and the deficiency can also be applied to structures; thus, the part about Medium machines for Medium riders refers to structures rather than vehicles.

You can find a similar system in The Quintessential Wizard; I applied some of the things I learned from designing the ritual magic system in there.

This is the list I assembled when writing :) Books The classics are better served when mentioned by author, rather than by title. • H.G. Wells – The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, The Island of Dr. Hybrid, The Food of the Gods. • Jules Verne – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea...

That's another way to play it, definitely.