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I know, I know. I'm saving up for a convention next month and hoping I'll have enough to pay for my hotel. And I can't decide between Renaissance Deluxe or Clockwork & Chivalry as a starter set. But ah, the temptation to drop $30 or so on a print book.

*evil cackle* You know you wants them both. Perhaps you could take your tent to the con?

It really depends if you want to run it off the shelf or use the rules to power your own black powder setting.

RD is more a developers kit for all things Early Modern - you have the rules and plenty of period info, but it is not a complete setting (although you have all the stuff you need to populate one).

C&C is a complete (a very complete) setting - you get rules, all the setting info, starting adventures, etc., and there are further adventures available to purchase.

Hi,

1) Straight resist rolls - the magnitude of the spell affects the power of the spell, but not how hard it is to avoid it.

2) Still able to swing a sword - although if you take a major wound it'll be more likely to kill you.

Thanks for the interest - I hope you enjoy running the game

Russia, 1812...

Maybe not for a setting, but for a scenario? Whoa. I may have to write one myself. Of course, its probably already been done (I haven't kept up on CoC releases in 20 odd years).

We have a hollow victory followed by the looting of Europe's most exotic capital, fire, retreat, starvation, the army's disintegration, frostbite, cossaks! half a million dead, an unparallelled disaster ... and the great old ones. Also, tons of historically colorful characters. Hetman Platov was known never to go into battle without his personal sorcerer - a perfect antagonist. If it hasn't been done, there is tremendous potential here.

I realize it is a little late, but I would love to see a Napoleonic setting at some point. There are a lot of us old Napy's gamers who are role players too.

Oh, go on, write it!

It's not too late to post on here - we have a crazy full schedule, but we intend to keep adding to the line. In fact, I've just finished editing a Renaissance adventure today

I'd love to do Napoleonics and made sure Renaissance Deluxe included the scope for it. We'll see what our writers come up with (I can't see me working solo/with Ken on it within the next six months).

You know what the connection is between Mr Cakebread's favourites periods of History. It's the big hats - Mexican Revolution and English Civil War are both big hat wars.

Have you been looking at my notes? It was always going to be a toss up between Mexican revolutionaries, the Nihang Singh or the Coldstream Guards

I think the somewhat romanticized adventurous flavour of the period would lend itself well for an RPG adaptation. Perhaps taking the more cinematic approach of Pirates & Dragons would be fitting. It's goods to know we share some weak spots and I'll try to appeal to them more often so expect some not quite subliminal messages.

Awesome! The more I think on it, the more I'd like to play it. I'd have probably gone for straight historical, but adding some magic and horror would be very interesting. I've read around the political history, now I might start searching out some folk tales...

Well, not being British, I think the clockwork English civil war is pretty niche, perhaps more so than the Mexican Revolution.

Point well made - a palpable hit

I'm not sure if it would be too niche, but I do know the period pretty well... And writing a scenario where you get to meet Zapata and Villa? You're playing unfair by appealing to my weak spots.

I picked up Guardians of Blasphemous Knowledge and may order Hellfire in POD as well to complete my Dark Streets collection!

Thanks, Vorax I'm running Hellfire for a group tomorrow.

All our games, both PDF and print editions, are on sale at 15% off from now until the 28th February! Go get ‘em!

Also, our 32 page military historical adventure, “Depths of Winter”, is now available as a “pay what you like” product, with all proceeds going to the Wounded Warrior Project.

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/browse.php?manufacturers_id=4595

More great stuff! No-one need fret that it's too late to post on this thread - I check it regularly. There are various things in the pipeline for the F&S range already, and as soon as the decks are a little clearer, we'll make an announcement updating our schedule

It seems that many of the factions have enemies who consider someone else to be their enemy. Rather than factions that are enemies with each other, we have this whole daisy chain of "I hate them! (But don't care about the people that hate me!)"

Indeed!

I really hope you all enjoy the game - be sure to let us know how it goes. And feel free to ask away, if there's anything else that comes up

I guess you could look at it as who the faction feels are it's staunchest supporters and most threatening enemies, and so nobody really cares about the Adamites except for the Adamites. Is that the intended circumstance?

Yes - although many of the other factions don't like them one bit, they have bigger fish to fry (although if you wanted to be really accurate, Royalist factions could lump them in with the swamp of other independents)

There are intentional inconsistencies. The Ranters, Adamites and Fifth Monarchists, in particular, are seen as an embarrassment by most of their natural allies - taking a particular facet of their rebellion too far (or offending the sensibilities of their fellow independents, such as the Puritans). Those with low RP are probably happy to knock along, but the truly devout will clash - another example, the Friends want to distance themselves from the Ranters (although they share a listening audience, etc), while the Ranters aren't hostile to the Friends, and actually see themselves as part of the same movement (as in the real history of the time, albeit compressed for inclusion). It's complicated - Christopher Hill writes comprehensively about all the competing factions of the time, personally I prefer his description to his analysis. We've tried to highlight the closest allies and most pressing enemies for each Faction.

Clockwork & Cthulhu is back in print! Clockwork & Cthulhu joins the other Renaissance D100 system titles (including Clockwork & Chivalry, Renaissance Deluxe, Dark Streets and various other titles) by Cakebread & Walton, now available POD from Drivethru. Available in hard or soft cover.

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/103450/Clockwork-%26-Cthulhu

Yay! I'll place my order first thing tomorrow!

Thanks

Hi Folks,

We're glad to announce that Dark Streets and Hellfire are now available in print from Drivethru

Dark Streets pits the Bow Street Runners against the minions of the Cthulhu Mythos. It's now available in paperback and hardback. Hellfire is an adventure for the Dark Streets setting.

Check out the pics on our website here:

http://clockworkandchivalry.co.uk/2013/12/dark-streets-back-in-print/

And order from here:

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/browse.php?manufacturers_id=4595

And here are some (lovely) reviews of Dark Streets:

http://www.rpg.net/columns/abitofhistory/abitofhistory56.phtml

http://therpgpundit.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/rpgpundit-reviews-dark-streets.html

Quite understandable Peter...

Does this mean that the C&C line is more or less frozen for the time being or are there still room and possibilities to submit to you guys some scenarios or content for it ?

Thanks...

There's definitely room for submitting scenarios and content! All the existing C&C products are becoming available via POD (we're hoping all of them will be available by the end of this week), and we have new PDF and print products lined up from contributing authors for Dark Streets and Renaissance. If folk would like to submit for C&C, we'd always be happy to discuss it/take a look at it (and possibly offer input)

Anyone interested should feel free to PM me on here, or contact us via the Cakebread & Walton/Clockwork and Chivalry website.

Another great review for Dark Streets (and Clockwork & Cthulhu)

http://www.rpg.net/columns/abitofhistory/abitofhistory56.phtml

A new game which uses the Renaissance ruleset has been launched on Kickstarter today.

To quote Jonathan M. Thompson from Battlefield Press "It is set in a fantasy world where magic is failing and technology has taken over. The world of Crios is involved in its version of World War I, complete with the tech. Art by Brent Chumley, Joel Biske and others."

Link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1292093911/crios-role-playing-game

Picked this up recently and really enjoy it. I think the setting is worthy of more Renaissance-based historical (fantasy) adventuring.

Thanks, Vorax. Roger is working hard on another adventure for the setting now

The Clockwork & Chivalry 2nd Edition Core rulebook is now back in print. Our acclaimed D100 alternate history black powder RPG is available to order now in both hardcover and softcover from DrivethruRPG. All print copies come with a free PDF copy.

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/97899/Clockwork-and-Chivalry-2nd-Edition-Core-Rulebook

Hardcover? Now you're talkin'!

And very fine it looks too - we got our proof copies and we're very pleased with them.

Cool. I'm enjoying the pdf I got through the Pirates & Dragons KS so I'll probably pick up the hardcover in a couple of weeks.

Thanks! I'm glad you're enjoying the PDF

Hi Steve,

I'm glad you've been enjoying the series

We posted news on this a while ago, saying "the next book in the series is partly finished, and we are looking for ways to take the project forward. But it has to be said that the Kingdom & Commonwealth Campaign, though critically well-received, is not proving as commercially successful as the Clockwork & Chivalry core rulebook and Clockwork & Cthulhu. Since this is our day job, we've had to move it down the priority list in favour of higher profile projects."

Since then we've continued to look at ways to complete the series. We know how much folk have enjoyed playing it and we're fond of it too. If there is a solution, it won't be very quick (as we are working on other projects at present), but if there is the continued demand we might reconsider (perhaps, if the demand is there, we could fund the book via Kickstarter).

Renaissance Deluxe RPG is now back in print. Our acclaimed D100 black powder RPG is available to order now in both hardcover and softcover from DrivethruRPG. All print copies come with a free PDF copy.

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/103994/Renaissance-Deluxe

Over the coming few days and weeks all of the Cakebread & Walton lines will start to become available in print again (following a brief hiatus due to our departure from Cubicle 7). In the meantime, our entire catalogue is still available in PDF format from Drivethru.

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/index.php?manufacturers_id=4595