The new owners of the Iron Kingdoms franchise, Steamforged Games have, as promised, taken the Strangelight Workshop TTRPG to Kickstarter. And they’ve met with success.
The new standalone game of occult and weird investigation in the steampunk world will use D&D’s 5e system. You can see progress, with about a week on the clock, on the pitch page.
Steamforged Games suggests the RPG can be played by as few as 2 players and be completed in 120 minutes, both unusual for tabletop roleplaying games.
For the award-winning Iron Kingdoms setting, 500+ pages of paranormal investigation, new and peculiar classes and ancestries, and a new essence system are on offer.
The rules also include a haunting system, more than 70 ‘creature-busting’ spells, new steampunk gear and nightmarish creatures.
Strangelight classes are;
- Bouncer – protector
- Caller – supernatural sensitive
- Investigator – thinker
- Jammer – a ghost puncher
- Strangelight Mechanik – steampunk inventor
- Arcanist – a spell slinger
For as long as humanity has existed, we’ve huddled by the firelight, trembling at the unknown horrors that skulk in the shadows. We of the Workshop have sworn to cast a light into the darkness, to illuminate the creatures lurking within. Be they occult, infernal, or other, no force will impede our relentless pursuit of knowledge. We are the Strangelight Workshop, offering practical solutions for your oddest problems.
A pledge of £38 will get backers PDFs of Strangelight Workshop, Specternomicon, Investigator’s Handbook, three case files, a Ceryl City map and some stretch goals.
At £61 a PDF copy of Iron Kingdoms: Requiem, the Monsternomicon, Legend of the Witchfire, Borderlands & Beyond, Borderlands Surival Guide, Shadow of the Seeker, Nightmare Empire, Scoundrels Guide to the Scharde Islands, Tales from the Blackwater Cantina, Into the Deep Wild, Monsternomicon: Lost Page and Deep Wild Expeditions.
Wow.
Physical books are in the tier at £77, and they come with PDFs. On offer as rewards are f Strangelight Workshop, Specternomicon, Investigator’s Handbook, three case files, a Ceryl City map poster and more stretch goals.
There’s also a £154 tier which includes a Collectors Handcover of the core rules, agent miniatures, a cloth map, Strathmoore dice, a GM screen, Spell cards, Encounter cards, a Strangelight stamp, deluxe metal coins and, of course, stretch goals.
Higher? Yes! £397 adds in those previous Iron Kingdoms books and in physical form. Your postie will love you.
The PDFs are slated for December this year and the books for April next year. Steamforged Games will run the Kickstarter until August 9th.
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