Kick ALL the Starters, Part III: Fund ALL the Crowds!

[Mamorien]

They're calling it a tangent, but to me, it looks more like an absorption.

“It sounds like a hundred trains. The quarters are cramped and stink of oil and coal, and if we fall, we’re done.”

The 19th century saw the emergence of a new kind of fighting machine: massive coal-fueled giants known as steam rigs. Crude and cumbersome at first, by the 1890s, they had become the primary weapons of war. Nations competed to develop the biggest and the best, while brilliant inventors like Lucy Tillencrest were sought by the highest bidder. But getting crews to man the rigs was a different story. For only the most reckless and foolhardy would dare to join the Steam Force, or, as it was called at the time… “the most dangerous job on earth.”

In Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars, your player characters are the crewmembers of a war rig, venturing into battles against people from far off countries, aligned to ideals different than their own, and trying to preserve their peace, their way of life, or their rich deposits of a new, bizarre energy source: condensed coal. Your characters — the crewmembers of these war rigs — are as likely to be enlisted crooks as they are commissioned officers; gung-ho patriots as common as conscripted people from the imperial powers’ colonies. They fight because they have to. But in the fear and fog of battle, bonds form, friendships and rivalries grow, and legends are made.

Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars is set in 1897, just as the Second Steam War is moving into its deadliest phase. Prussia and their Die Lanze alliance wage war on Britain, America, and Japan’s Iron Ring alliance. Meanwhile, the Fulcrum of Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Britain, and America combat their enemies in Central Europe as the Confederation of the Sea comprising Spain, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire seize the Mediterranean with their newfound power. Prussia and Korea utilize the Long Handshake alliance to pincer Russia between them, but imperial Russia isn’t without allies, as the Dual Entente with France aims to weaken Prussia’s aggression. The world is at war, but the theaters of conflict are many.

The Trinity Continuum is a roleplaying game line set in a multiverse of danger, from the products of mad science and corporate greed to the perils of lost civilizations. Players create stories of adventure and intrigue in any of several eras and alternate universes within the continuum, each focusing on a different genre of play. From Mythic heroes in Greece's Iron Age to two-fisted pulp action in the Roaring '30s, from modern-day assassins working in a shadow world to super-powered individuals and teams in the near future, and even all the way into the 22nd century as psionic humans travel to the stars. Each era of the Trinity Continuum presents endless possibilities.

Steam Wars takes place outside the Trinity Continuum's "Alpha" timeline -- the worlds explored from Aegis to Æon -- taking place in a parallel reality, setting the stage for new adventures and discoveries.

As well as a roleplaying game, Steam Wars is a successful graphic novel, series of art creations, and idea spawned from the ever-brilliant mind of Larry Blamire. Working with Onyx Path Publishing, Larry has co-authored this game to form a new aspect of the Trinity Continuum while furthering the possibilities within his Steam Wars world. Readers, players, and Storyguides alike are encouraged to look up the Steam Wars graphic novel and get a taste for what this roleplaying game has in store. Many of the characters, rigs, and actions appearing in this pages were introduced in Larry’s comic work, and they’ll undoubtedly serve to inspire you.

Add-ons do not yet include the graphic novel, but they do include all the Alpha Timeline games (including Aegis, whose backer PDF just went out to us Nautikoi last week) and all the games in the meta-cinematic They Came From...! series, for which Blamire has contributed text pieces in the style of his deadpan neo-bulldada cinematic work.

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/ony...steam-wars