(RPG PDF Spotlight) HARP Steampunk

HARP Steampunk

HARP Sourcebook by Iron Crown Enterprises

– continue your journey on the new road to High Adventure

HARP Steampunk is your definitive guide to steampunk gaming using the HARP rules.

HARP Steampunk adapts the HARP rules to the genre, with a complete set of new steampunk professions and backgrounds for characters, enriching these with new and existing skills and talents. Victorian era mysticism, clockwork constructs, steam-driven automata and created beings straight from Doctor Frankenstein’s laboratory add optional elements of supernatural and weird science to the game. Equipment and vehicles are categorised as historical technologies, “marvellous steam” (where steam powered and mechanical inventions are bigger, better and/or more reliable than Victorian reality), and “electrical miracles” (electrical vehicles, antigravity devices, and other weird science).   

Using HARP Steampunk, you can dial your steampunk game upwards from historical melodrama in a broadly nineteenth century setting, through to Jules Verne, HG Wells and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-inspired retro-sf voyages of exploration and discovery, and then beyond to an alternate world of epic steam technology and weird science.

HARP Steampunk is a genre sourcebook for High Adventure Role Playing. To use HARP Steampunk, you will need either HARP Fantasy or HARP SF.

Found within:

  • Twelve professions designed for high steampunk adventure including Detective, Doctor, Engineer, Mystic, Pilot and Soldier
  • Forms (clockwork automata, steam automata and creations) for more exotic characters
  • Four class-based Backgrounds for your characters
  • A complete suite of relevant skills for your steampunk characters
  • A complete set of Talents and other options for your steampunk characters
  • Equipment and Vehicles subdivided into historical technology, marvellous steam, and electrical miracles
  • Mystical powers such as Akashic Reading and Astral Eye
  • Detailed rules on combat, vehicles and equipment issues for steampunk gaming
  • Guidance for the GM on running steampunk campaigns
  • A selection of Spirits, dinosaurs, Ice Age giants, and inhuman intelligences to challenge adventurers and explorers

HARP Steampunk is available through DriveThruRPG in PDF.


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