Thank you both for the recommendations on the sources!
The rules will cover matchlock, wheellock, and flintlocks. They are being designed to be backwards compatible with Lamentations of the Flame Princess’ gunpowder rules. I’m 90% done; but still finalizing artillery.
So, its almost next year. What’s the update on Kickstarting Auran Empire? Will you include a draft for immediate consumption of backers? (Based on your good example with Dwimmermount I’m leaning towards a personal policy of not backing any gaming project that doesn’t give backers access to drafts.)
BCK is developed by Omer Joel. It’s a campaign supplement for a post-apoc barbarian planetary romance fantasy. Barbarians riding dinosaurs confront spaceships.
cross posting from a conversation on Discord today. The gist of that conversation was An Auran Empire Sourcebook KS is no where near a possibility at this time.
I imagine finalizing the Auran Empire sourcebook will be a significant effort. There's plenty of other areas that I'm sure would be able to occupy Autarch for the next couple years. However, I wonder if a different approach might be considered. Perhaps a Gazeteer per province/region would be a more fruitful approach. One would have to have the discipline to not try to make each new gazetteer more 'awesome to the extreme' than the last, but I think Alex has that discipline. Another consideration with the gazetteer approach is that it may turn out that some provinces just may not be interesting enough to justify the effort for it to have its own gazetteer. Perhaps such provinces could be viewed as reserved for each individual GM to flesh out on his own.
I imagine finalizing the Auran Empire sourcebook will be a significant effort. There's plenty of other areas that I'm sure would be able to occupy Autarch for the next couple years. However, I wonder if a different approach might be considered. Perhaps a Gazeteer per province/region would be a more fruitful approach. One would have to have the discipline to not try to make each new gazetteer more 'awesome to the extreme' than the last, but I think Alex has that discipline. Another consideration with the gazetteer approach is that it may turn out that some provinces just may not be interesting enough to justify the effort for it to have its own gazetteer. Perhaps such provinces could be viewed as reserved for each individual GM to flesh out on his own.
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This raises an interesting question. Which areas of the Auran Empire would people be most interested in playing in?
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This raises an interesting question. Which areas of the Auran Empire would people be most interested in playing in?
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Well, since you ask... Kemesh. Definitely Kemesh. My players have encountered a magic portal to that desert land because my campaign's backstory involves [SPOILER OMITTED IN CASE MY PLAYERS READ THIS], and it'd be handy to have a resource to draw region-appropriate locations and cultural details from.
I also think Kemesh would be interesting as well as the territories that border Kemesh. With the leaders of the Auran and Somirean Empires seeming defeated both Somirea and Opelenea could be ripe for trouble-making by emigres from Kemesh or Syksostan.