Clockwork & Chivalry for RQII

[Ultor]

I bought a hard copy of the rules a few weeks ago and have now bought the first three adventures via DriveThru.

Congratulations on an excellent, evocative game.

I already have plans for a game in the new world, where the Alchemists of the Cavalier colony of Virginia at the College of William and Mary have to deal with the literal machinations of the New Englanders at Harvard, not to mention the shamanistic practices of the natives and the schemings of the devilish French.

There should be a review up at my blog this week.

 

[doomedpc]

I bought a hard copy of the rules a few weeks ago and have now bought the first three adventures via DriveThru.

Congratulations on an excellent, evocative game.

I already have plans for a game in the new world, where the Alchemists of the Cavalier colony of Virginia at the College of William and Mary have to deal with the literal machinations of the New Englanders at Harvard, not to mention the shamanistic practices of the natives and the schemings of the devilish French.

There should be a review up at my blog this week.

Many thanks for the kind words

Your game plans sound excellent - I would love to play in that campaign

Long Live the Mainspring!
Peter Cakebread

Cakebread & Walton
Purveyors of Fine Imaginings

 

[doomedpc]

Hi Folks,

The latest Clockwork & Chivalry book, Quintessence, is now out. This 128 page adventure is the fourth volume in the Kingdom and Commonwealth campaign.

http://shop.cubicle7store.com/epages/es113347.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/es113347_shop/Products/CB76104

Long Live the Mainspring!
Peter Cakebread

Cakebread & Walton
Purveyors of Fine Imaginings

 

[The Greek]

Love the 17th century Physics boxed text

Probably going to need that grapefruit...

 

[carandol]

Love the 17th century Physics boxed text

Probably going to need that grapefruit...

:-D I needed a little lie down after writing that.

 

[doomedpc]

Signs and Portents 90 is now available for free download!

http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/news/news_item.php?pkid_news=477

This issue includes a taster from Quintessence. You get a quick look at the "Enterprise" and meet an NPC from the adventure, the clockwork genius, John Wilkins.

Long Live the Mainspring!
Peter Cakebread

Cakebread & Walton
Purveyors of Fine Imaginings

 

[doomedpc]

In this week's Rho Pi Gamma podcast, with the ever lovely Byron and Liz, we chat about the forthcoming Cakebread and Walton releases and the creative process (and I ramble on interminably about various other game related stuff as well).

http://rhopigamma.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/season-2-episode-003-pete-cakebread/

Long Live the Mainspring!
Peter Cakebread

Cakebread & Walton
Purveyors of Fine Imaginings

 

[doomedpc]

Cakebread and Walton interviewed on the latest C7 podcast:

http://cubicle7.podbean.com/2011/03/18/gentlemen-of-distinction/

Long Live The Mainspring!
Peter Cakebread

Cakebread and Walton
Purveyors of Fine Imaginings

 

[doomedpc]

Hi Folks,

Divers and Sundry the new Clockwork and Chivalry sourcebook is now available for pre-order from Cubicle 7.

http://shop.cubicle7store.com/epages/es113347.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/es113347_shop/Products/CB76105

This sourcebook includes:

*A host of new Professions and Factions

*Expanded and detailed information on weapons of the era

*An extensive section describing the soldiers of the English Civil War and their foreign counterparts

*Scotland as a place for adventure in the Clockwork & Chivalry universe

*Random NPC, Village and Adventure Seed generators

*Three complete adventures

*A selection of pre-generated characters to get your Clockwork & Chivalry games off to a quick start

Long Live the Mainspring!
Peter Cakebread

Cakebread and Walton
Purveyors of Fine Imaginings

 

[Greg Smith]

Can you tell us what is new? ie doesn't appear elsewhere.

This sourcebook includes:

*A host of new Professions and Factions

I'm guessing Highwayman, Ruffian, Witch, Cunning Man, Iconoclast.
Factions: Adamite.

Anything else?

*Expanded and detailed information on weapons of the era

The two articles from S&P?

*An extensive section describing the soldiers of the English Civil War and their foreign counterparts

This sounds new.

*Scotland as a place for adventure in the Clockwork & Chivalry universe

As does this.

*Random NPC, Village and Adventure Seed generators

New?

*Three complete adventures

Dragon of Naseby and The Naked & the Dead?

*A selection of pre-generated characters to get your Clockwork & Chivalry games off to a quick start

More than the ones from DoN?

 

[carandol]

Started by quoting, but got into quote-unquote nightmare, so decided not to...

OK, from the top...

You guessed right with professions/factions, but there will be some more too, including Scottish-specific ones and things like Fifth Monarchists, etc. Yes, weapons from S&P, but with many of them illustrated. Lots of new stuff on soldiers from Colin. All-new Scotland. All new random tables, including Pete's rather unsavoury random pub name generator :shock: (and some sensible pub names too) Yes, those two adventures, plus a third, "The Mad Monk of the Moss", which will be appearing in S&P in May. Ready made PCs - those from Dragon of Naseby, a set of Royalists to go with the new adventure, and a "generic" mixed party which can be used to get a game off to a quick start - suitable for the Kingdom & Commonwealth campaign, etc.

 

[Greg Smith]

Hmm, I am undecided as to whether this a worthwhile purchase.

including Pete's rather unsavoury random pub name generator

Although that is almost worth the price on its own! :lol:

 

[Radioactive Ape Colin]

"Lots of stuff on soldiers". And folks wonder why we Brits have a rep for understatement.

Colin

 

[doomedpc]

Good point Colin!

The balance of the book will be at least half new material - including the "Compleat Souldier", an extensive look at Soldiers in the Clockwork and Chivalry setting. Included in that will be an expansion of the current Professions; plenty of specialist Soldier professions; exotic and foreign troop types; and lots of Scots (to complement the other large section on setting a game in Scotland).

The tables and charts aren't just a few add-ons but all you need to create random adventures for C&C (you should have seen the random pub name generator before it got censored).

As well as the extra pre-gens (about 18 in all, including the DoN ones) the existing S&P stuff will be expanded, and fully illustrated and properly laid out for ease of use.

We think that this is going to be a seriously cool book - thorough and packed with stuff as (I hope) you would expect from C&W, and a worthy addition to the C&C library

Long Live the Mainspring!
Peter Cakebread

Cakebread and Walton
Purveyors of Fine Imaginings

 

[Greg Smith]

Thanks Peter. You have just convinced me that it will be woth buying.

 

[doomedpc]

Thanks Peter. You have just convinced me that it will be woth buying.

We always try and produce cool stuff that we would want to buy/play and that we can enjoy putting together. If not, we wouldn't bother. If you like what we have done so far you won't be disappointed. Although if I were an Adventurer I might just carry on walking past any pubs I encounter...

 

[Greg Smith]

I know your stuff is good. It was the quantity of new/existing stuff that concerned me.

 

[doomedpc]

Signs and Portents 91 is now available for free download.

http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/home/detail.php?qsID=2056&qsSeries=13

The issue includes another excerpt from Quintessence, the latest bumper adventure in the Kingdom and Commonwealth campaign. This month you get a glimpse of London in the seventeenth century. Enjoy!

Long Live the Mainspring!
Peter Cakebread

Cakebread and Walton
Purveyors of Fine Imaginings

 

[doomedpc]

The pdf version of Quintessence, the latest adventure in the Kingdom and Commonwealth campaign for Clockwork and Chivalry, is now available from Drivethru and RPGNow.

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=90052&filters=0_0_0_0&manufacturers_id=54

http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=90052&filters=0_0_0_0&manufacturers_id=54

Long Live the Mainspring!
Peter Cakebread

Cakebread and Walton
Purveyors of Fine Imaginings

 

[doomedpc]

Great review of Quintessence, the fourth volume of the Kingdom and Commonwealth campaign for C&C.

http://roleplayerschronicle.com/?p=7704

Long Live the Mainspring!
Peter Cakebread

Cakebread and Walton
Purveyors of Fine Imaginings