I love alternate magic systems of every kind, this would take some time for me to incorporate into a game but I think the results would be fantastic.

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Very useful.

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Many more were hatched but those that were added fit very well.

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Oh you added my name to it... awwww you shouldn't have. Go to Comment

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Number 30 was one of my favorites... Go to Comment

Update: Out with ye!

Thanks to Dragonlordmax, Mourngrymm and Roack for their assistance finishing off the list. Go to Comment

Number 27 was one that I had to fight to avoid fleshing out more; it's one of my favorites, but the site is PG, so I can't really flesh it out any more than I did. Go to Comment

Some of these are really funny! (7, 15, 16, 27...) Good work!

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This is great, number 27 got me.  Have you read 

http://www.amazon.com/Steampunk-Anthology-Fantastically-Strange-Stories/dp/0763648434

 

I recommend Clockwork Fagin.  It reminds me of number 30.  

 

 

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This is great!
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I like this sort of list -- the kind that you never realize you need until far too late to plan for it. I wouldn't even have thought to look for a "30 tomes" backup list when running a Steampunk game. Glad that you've got it covered, in case I ever do. (Loved "SparkPunk" stuff). Go to Comment

Fun! I could use this!

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How many come in a pack? Are they rechargeable or are they one shot specials? Useful and good to have, but maybe a tad beige, rather like the roadside kit in the trunk.

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Ok...

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I want one of these. Go to Comment

The mechanism I have in mind for them would be sigils carved into the tube, which are then activated/powered by the ether capsule once it's broken open. So theoretically they could be recharged, but my intent was that they're small, they're cheap, and they're one-shot. You light one up and toss it where needed, just like an actual flare.

Cost and amount are negotiable. XD Honestly, that's left up to the GM; how much light do you want your players to have available?

As for being 'beige', yeah, they are. Honestly, I was thinking that they're pretty much a fantasy port of the real thing. It's a device that's proved useful to us over the past few decades, surely they'd come up with something similar in a magical society. A nice bit of fluff to add to the world, and even gives a bit of utility to the players too. Go to Comment

I like these posts that give depth and details to little items.  Things like this don't make your game or your plot but they make the world richer.  Also the more detail an item has the more a PC can take to manipulating it and problem solving with it. 

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A steampunk (or magitech) gliwstick. Anyone up for a fantasy rave? Go to Comment