Fantasy Tech 1 - Wait, there's going to be more than one?

[Kuroshima]

It's up!

Now only a brief browsing has shown that this will be extremely good, but the number in the title suggests that we might get more than one... It's like Christmas but in July!

It certainly was not what I expected today, but it's helluva cool! Once Low Tech gets released, we will have the full tech set ready!

Personally, I think that the Gnomish Artificer in my DF game is going to love this book series...

[Christopher R. Rice]

Not what I expected, but very very cool stuff! The Alchemy section alone is worth the $8 bucks folks! Buy it while it's hot, brag to your friends how you got it first!

GURPS Fantasy-Tech 1: The Edge of Reality

Ghostdancer

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by Kuroshima

Personally, I think that the Gnomish Artificer in my DF game is going to love this book series...

That is who is was made for :)

Reflective Heat Rays... Ooo, burn!

[Turhan's Bey Company]

Originally Posted by Kuroshima

It's up!

And earlier than I'd expected. I'm not sure just what I expected in its place, but then again I also forgot it was Thursday, so I'm just as surprised as anybody else.

Originally Posted by Kuroshima

the number in the title suggests that we might get more than one...

FWIW, the number just means that it's a potential series (sure, there are ten DF books so far, but Middle Ages 1 never saw a sequel), not that there are necessarily more in the pipeline.

That said, there's potentially a lot of ground to cover under a "fantasy tech" title. For example, this one is basically real-historical weird science (and therefore, in a way, as close as I'll ever get to writing a Ken Hite book). It's stuff that people actually wanted to make but failed or actually made but other people misinterpreted. It's "fantasy" in the broad sense of fancies and imaginings, and it doesn't contain a single bit of out-and-out magic, which means that there's at least one book to write on magically-assisted mundane technology: use of magic in the production of mundane tools for craft workers, impact on crop yields from fertility spells, building times and costs for architecture from earth-moving spells, construction of portal networks, magical "genetic engineering" in elven forests, mining by races with supernatural underground senses, and so on, including new spells, enchanted tools, and magical techniques. Urban Magics is probably a good model for that sort of book.

Originally Posted by Kuroshima

Personally, I think that the Gnomish Artificer in my DF game is going to love this book series...

Yes. Yes, he will.

[Rocket Man]

And it even has an Ethnic Badass category. At last, GURPS players everywhere shall learn to fear the Lakota Katana! ;)

[whswhs]

I had actually been thinking about what I would include in a Fantasy-Tech book if I submitted a proposal (it would have been radically different from this one!). It was something of a surprise to find that a book on the subject was already in the works. My treatment would have been much more "categories of fantastic technology in premodern settings." But I don't know how that kind of book could possibly fit into the same model as this book.

Bill Stoddard

[Turhan's Bey Company]

Originally Posted by whswhs

My treatment would have been much more "categories of fantastic technology in premodern settings." But I don't know how that kind of book could possibly fit into the same model as this book.

To my mind, it shouldn't, no more than, say, Dungeon Fantasy 6 and 8 fit the model of DF 1 (on reflection, perhaps not the best example, but they are very different books despite having the same heading). A Fantasy Tech series could contain books of several different complexions.

[Kromm]

Originally Posted by Turhan's Bey Company

A Fantasy Tech series could contain books of several different complexions.

And probably should, or it'll start to look repetitive after about three volumes. Needless to say, if any established GURPS freelancer wants to write a later volume of Fantasy-Tech, I'd be happy to read the proposal.

[Kuroshima]

Originally Posted by Turhan's Bey Company

FWIW, the number just means that it's a potential series (sure, there are ten DF books so far, but Middle Ages 1 never saw a sequel), not that there are necessarily more in the pipeline.

Dungeon Fantasy; Adventurers started it's existence without the 1 (It was not added until Dungeon Fantasy 2: Dungeons was published) IIRC. Oh, and I was careful to say "might get" instead of "will get"

Now, with PDFs, after what was done with DF1, I would have though that if there's the possibility of a sequel, but no certainty, the you could simply add the number via errata/correction when the second volume gets published...

Oh, and I finished reading it. Excellent stuff. My only gripes is how much it's going to contradict Low Tech ;)(Mainly things like Gothic/fluted armor,extra thick armor,... Oh, and IIRC, there were Ethnic Badass rules there, though they might be a victim of the dreaded Scisors of High Editor Kromm)

[Christopher R. Rice]

Originally Posted by Turhan's Bey Company

To my mind, it shouldn't, no more than, say, Dungeon Fantasy 6 and 8 fit the model of DF 1 (on reflection, perhaps not the best example, but they are very different books despite having the same heading). A Fantasy Tech series could contain books of several different complexions.

That would be just awesome.

Also thanks mod's for merging the two threads, I guess Kuro and I decided to simu-post.

^_^

Ghostdancer