Quote from: Dan Davenport;838002What a cool premise for a game. Nicely reviewed, Pundit!

Clash, you really need to come back to #rpgnet, whether to do a Q&A or two or to just hang out.

I hope you'll invite me to do the same once Dark Albion is out.

Quote from: RPGPundit;838300I hope you'll invite me to do the same once Dark Albion is out.

Absolutely! Just let me know what day works for you when the time rolls around.

Quote from: flyingmice;837620OK! If you PM me with your email, I'll personally send it to you.

Very impressive customer service. : )

"Lowell Was Right" sounds like an amazing concept, well implemented. Had I more free time, I'd be a paying customer already.

(Which is why I'm not downloading it for free — I have NO free time. Plus, you really deserve money for this, so…)

Also, I AM doing a Steampunk setting (for my Storm Knights campaign), and I don't want to tempt my brain with a whole lot of neat ideas I'd want to steal.

Again, this sounds brilliant; a very ambitious concept carried out very well. When my schedule opens up I'll definitely be buying it.

Cheers!

Quote from: Dan Davenport;838360Absolutely! Just let me know what day works for you when the time rolls around.

I'll be in touch.

Thank you very much, Daddy Warpig! I'm glad it tickled your curiosity bump! I like to think of it as Hard SF as if written in the 1880s. Have fun with your Storm Nights campaign!

-clash

Quote from: Daddy Warpig;838450Very impressive customer service. : )

He did indeed send me it. What I've read so far is very nice, I've just been reading the background info rather than any mechanics. It really helped me understand early pulp SF (1910s-1930s), REH/Conan swords & sorcery, and modernist horror (William Hope Hodgson, HP Lovecraft) better, seeing how they were using real science concepts from the 1880s.

That is what drew me to the concept, S'mon! The more pulp SF and S&S/S&P stuff I read, the more I noticed the authors had a synoptic vision of what the world, and the solar system, were like. At first I had thought these were singular authorial fantasies, but there were too many commonalities, so they must have had a shared source.

The fact that my father's father was a school teacher born near the end of the 19th century, and that my father remembered a lot of what his father had taught him - he himself was an engineer born in 1919 - helped me understand that science was very different back then. My elementary school in the sixties had books on science and technology twenty years out of date, and outmoded concepts were taught in schools long after science had cast these ideas out. Thus the pulp era writers were educated under the ideas of the 1880s, even though the scientific establishment had long ago moved on.

It was only after I had started intensely researching LWR - the last couple of years before writing it - that I realized Science had a set of theories that together explained nearly everything well enough, just as Newtonian physics works perfectly well for non-relativistic space. It was not some crackpot hokum - everything tied together and worked. The fact that the only foundational theory from that time that is still scientifically acceptable today is Panspermia - acceptable, but not accepted! - shows just how fundamentally wrong everything was.

-clash