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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 16:52, 1 January 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{skub}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{skub}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It</del>'<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s </del>a magic/steampunk [[RPG]] published by [[R. Talsorian]] Games. Throw away your dice and grab your deck o' cards as if you were dumb enough to play poker. Also grab your "player as contributory GM" hat, because you will make up almost as much shit as the dude hypothetically in charge. This is mainly due to the odd nature of the system where to achieve anything you <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">would </del>test your skill rating of 2-12 plus <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cards </del>against a target number. The cards <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">added </del>their face value (<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or </del>11 for a jack, 12 for a queen, 13 for a king <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or </del>14 for a Ace) if the suit was aligned to the action. Clubs physical, Hearts Charisma, Diamonds perception, Spades social graces. As this <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">meant </del>that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the cards were </del>way more important than your characters skill they often <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">determined </del>what your course of action would be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so </del>mild mannered librarians holding clubs would be able to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">out shoot </del>a veteran gunfighter holding hearts.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'Castle Falkenstein'' is </ins>a magic/steampunk [[RPG]] published by [[R. Talsorian]] Games. Throw away your dice and grab your deck o' cards as if you were dumb enough to play poker. Also grab your "player as contributory GM" hat, because you will make up almost as much shit as the dude hypothetically in charge. This is mainly due to the odd nature of the system where<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, in order </ins>to achieve anything<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>you <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">need to </ins>test your skill rating of 2-12 plus <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">card draws </ins>against a target number. The cards <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">add </ins>their face value (11 for a jack, 12 for a queen, 13 for a king <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>14 for a Ace) if the suit was aligned to the action. Clubs physical, Hearts Charisma, Diamonds perception, Spades social graces. As this <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">means </ins>that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">card draws are </ins>way more important than your characters skill<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>they often <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">determine </ins>what your course of action would be<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. In other words, </ins>mild mannered librarians holding clubs would be able to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">outshoot </ins>a veteran gunfighter holding hearts.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As you <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">could </del>hold up to 4 cards if you got them you <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">could </del>store a hand to pull off a particular action [[Just as planned<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </del>(to the annoyance of everyone else as those cards wouldn't be in circulation). It also <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">led </del>to a near pathological desire in all players to look for any reason to jettison any Spades they held as they were nearly always useless.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As you <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">can </ins>hold up to 4 cards if you got them<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>you <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">can </ins>store a hand to pull off a particular action [[Just as planned<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|</ins>(to the annoyance of everyone else as those cards wouldn't be in circulation)<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>. It also <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">leads </ins>to a near<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-</ins>pathological desire in all players to look for any reason to jettison any Spades they held as they were nearly always useless.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The system theoretically lets you play as magicians, fey (many different varieties) and even dragons although the rules that accompanied them varied from stupid to entirely broken.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The system theoretically lets you play as magicians, fey (many different varieties) and even dragons<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>although the rules that accompanied them varied from stupid to entirely broken.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>System quirks aside, astonishing fluff, almost [[Space: 1889]]-like in its period genre madness.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>System quirks aside, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">there's some </ins>astonishing fluff, almost [[Space: 1889]]-like in its period genre madness.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Set in a Victorian era where Bismark and his Prussians were out to conquer Europe with their land tanks and Unseelie Fey allies, held back by the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">air ships </del>and plucky heroes of the German principality of Bayern, while the rest of the great powers mainly bickered and intrigued amongst themselves. RTG produced half a dozen supplements including an ok one on America to expand the setting (all done from the point of view of a time travelling American from the 80s).</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Set in a Victorian era where Bismark and his Prussians were out to conquer Europe with their land tanks and Unseelie Fey allies, held back by the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">airships </ins>and plucky heroes of the German principality of Bayern, while the rest of the great powers mainly bickered and intrigued amongst themselves. RTG produced half a dozen supplements including an ok one on America to expand the setting (all done from the point of view of a time travelling American from the 80s).</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For all the many quirks of the system, it was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">however </del>a pioneering <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">steam punk </del>setting <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and the </del>very fluid nature of the rules <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">meant </del>it is very easy to integrate almost anything into the story so GMs could plunder any literary source they felt like <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so games </del>including Sherlock Holmes, HG Wells <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">time machine</del>, War of the Worlds <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Martians</del>, Frankenstein, Fu Manchu, Phantomas weren't uncommon kind of like playing a game based on Anno Dracula by <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Kim Newman (</del>[[Jack Yeovil]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">)</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For all the many quirks of the system, it was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nonetheless </ins>a pioneering <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">steampunk </ins>setting<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. The </ins>very fluid nature of the rules <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mean that </ins>it is very easy to integrate almost anything into the story<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>so GMs could plunder any literary source they felt like<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Games </ins>including Sherlock Holmes, HG Wells<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">' ''The Time Machine''</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Martians from ''</ins>War of the Worlds<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>, Frankenstein, Fu Manchu, Phantomas <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and the like </ins>weren't uncommon<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>kind of like playing a game based on <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>Anno Dracula<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'' </ins>by [[Jack Yeovil<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Kim Newman</ins>]].</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{RTG-RPGS}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{RTG-RPGS}}</div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>ElMusha http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Castle_Falkenstein&diff=112446&oldid=prev 2021-01-23T20:52:43Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:52, 23 January 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{skub}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{skub}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It's a magic/steampunk [[RPG]] published by R. Talsorian Games. Throw away your dice and grab your deck o' cards as if you were dumb enough to play poker. Also grab your "player as contributory GM" hat, because you will make up almost as much shit as the dude hypothetically in charge. This is mainly due to the odd nature of the system where to achieve anything you would test your skill rating of 2-12 plus cards against a target number. The cards added their face value (or 11 for a jack, 12 for a queen, 13 for a king or 14 for a Ace) if the suit was aligned to the action. Clubs physical, Hearts Charisma, Diamonds perception, Spades social graces. As this meant that the cards were way more important than your characters skill they often determined what your course of action would be so mild mannered librarians holding clubs would be able to out shoot a veteran gunfighter holding hearts.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It's a magic/steampunk [[RPG]] published by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>R. Talsorian<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>Games. Throw away your dice and grab your deck o' cards as if you were dumb enough to play poker. Also grab your "player as contributory GM" hat, because you will make up almost as much shit as the dude hypothetically in charge. This is mainly due to the odd nature of the system where to achieve anything you would test your skill rating of 2-12 plus cards against a target number. The cards added their face value (or 11 for a jack, 12 for a queen, 13 for a king or 14 for a Ace) if the suit was aligned to the action. Clubs physical, Hearts Charisma, Diamonds perception, Spades social graces. As this meant that the cards were way more important than your characters skill they often determined what your course of action would be so mild mannered librarians holding clubs would be able to out shoot a veteran gunfighter holding hearts.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As you could hold up to 4 cards if you got them you could store a hand to pull off a particular action [[Just as planned]] (to the annoyance of everyone else as those cards wouldn&#039;t be in circulation). It also led to a near pathological desire in all players to look for any reason to jettison any Spades they held as they were nearly always useless.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As you could hold up to 4 cards if you got them you could store a hand to pull off a particular action [[Just as planned]] (to the annoyance of everyone else as those cards wouldn&#039;t be in circulation). It also led to a near pathological desire in all players to look for any reason to jettison any Spades they held as they were nearly always useless.</div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>Nubnuber http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Castle_Falkenstein&diff=112445&oldid=prev 2021-01-23T20:52:15Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:52, 23 January 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{skub}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{skub}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It's a magic/steampunk [[RPG]] published by R. Talsorian Games. Throw away your dice and grab your deck o' cards as if you were dumb enough to play poker. Also grab your "player as contributory GM" hat, because you will make up almost as much shit as the dude hypothetically in charge. This is mainly due to the odd nature of the system where to achieve anything you <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">would use the </del>would test your skill rating of 2-12 plus cards against a target number. The cards added their face value (or 11 for a jack, 12 for a queen, 13 for a king or 14 for a Ace) if the suit was aligned to the action. Clubs physical, Hearts Charisma, Diamonds perception, Spades social graces. As this meant that the cards were way more important than your characters skill they often determined what your course of action would be so mild mannered librarians holding clubs would be able to out shoot a veteran gunfighter holding hearts.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It's a magic/steampunk [[RPG]] published by R. Talsorian Games. Throw away your dice and grab your deck o' cards as if you were dumb enough to play poker. Also grab your "player as contributory GM" hat, because you will make up almost as much shit as the dude hypothetically in charge. This is mainly due to the odd nature of the system where to achieve anything you would test your skill rating of 2-12 plus cards against a target number. The cards added their face value (or 11 for a jack, 12 for a queen, 13 for a king or 14 for a Ace) if the suit was aligned to the action. Clubs physical, Hearts Charisma, Diamonds perception, Spades social graces. As this meant that the cards were way more important than your characters skill they often determined what your course of action would be so mild mannered librarians holding clubs would be able to out shoot a veteran gunfighter holding hearts.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As you could hold up to 4 cards if you got them you could store a hand to pull off a particular action [[Just as planned]] (to the annoyance of everyone else as those cards wouldn&#039;t be in circulation). It also led to a near pathological desire in all players to look for any reason to jettison any Spades they held as they were nearly always useless.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As you could hold up to 4 cards if you got them you could store a hand to pull off a particular action [[Just as planned]] (to the annoyance of everyone else as those cards wouldn&#039;t be in circulation). It also led to a near pathological desire in all players to look for any reason to jettison any Spades they held as they were nearly always useless.</div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>Nubnuber http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Castle_Falkenstein&diff=112444&oldid=prev 2021-01-23T20:51:29Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:51, 23 January 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{skub}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{skub}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It's <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an </del>magic/steampunk [[RPG]] published by R. Talsorian Games. Throw away your dice and grab your deck o' cards as if you were dumb enough to play poker. Also grab your "player as contributory GM" hat, because you will make up almost as much shit as the dude hypothetically in charge. This is mainly due to the odd nature of the system where to achieve anything you would use the would test your skill rating of 2-12 plus cards against a target number. The cards added their face value (or 11 for a jack, 12 for a queen, 13 for a king or 14 for a Ace) if the suit was aligned to the action. Clubs physical, Hearts Charisma, Diamonds perception, Spades social graces. As this meant that the cards were way more important than your characters skill they often determined what your course of action would be so mild mannered librarians holding clubs would be able to out shoot a veteran gunfighter holding hearts.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It's <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a </ins>magic/steampunk [[RPG]] published by R. Talsorian Games. Throw away your dice and grab your deck o' cards as if you were dumb enough to play poker. Also grab your "player as contributory GM" hat, because you will make up almost as much shit as the dude hypothetically in charge. This is mainly due to the odd nature of the system where to achieve anything you would use the would test your skill rating of 2-12 plus cards against a target number. The cards added their face value (or 11 for a jack, 12 for a queen, 13 for a king or 14 for a Ace) if the suit was aligned to the action. Clubs physical, Hearts Charisma, Diamonds perception, Spades social graces. As this meant that the cards were way more important than your characters skill they often determined what your course of action would be so mild mannered librarians holding clubs would be able to out shoot a veteran gunfighter holding hearts.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As you could hold up to 4 cards if you got them you could store a hand to pull off a particular action [[Just as planned]] (to the annoyance of everyone else as those cards wouldn&#039;t be in circulation). It also led to a near pathological desire in all players to look for any reason to jettison any Spades they held as they were nearly always useless.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As you could hold up to 4 cards if you got them you could store a hand to pull off a particular action [[Just as planned]] (to the annoyance of everyone else as those cards wouldn&#039;t be in circulation). It also led to a near pathological desire in all players to look for any reason to jettison any Spades they held as they were nearly always useless.</div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>Nubnuber http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Castle_Falkenstein&diff=112443&oldid=prev 2018-10-19T15:36:04Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 15:36, 19 October 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{skub}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{skub}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It&#039;s an magic/steampunk [[RPG]] published by R. Talsorian Games. Throw away your dice and grab your deck o&#039; cards as if you were dumb enough to play poker. Also grab your &quot;player as contributory GM&quot; hat, because you will make up almost as much shit as the dude hypothetically in charge. This is mainly due to the odd nature of the system where to achieve anything you would use the would test your skill rating of 2-12 plus cards against a target number. The cards added their face value (or 11 for a jack, 12 for a queen, 13 for a king or 14 for a Ace) if the suit was aligned to the action. Clubs physical, Hearts Charisma, Diamonds perception, Spades social graces. As this meant that the cards were way more important than your characters skill they often determined what your course of action would be so mild mannered librarians holding clubs would be able to out shoot a veteran gunfighter holding hearts.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It&#039;s an magic/steampunk [[RPG]] published by R. Talsorian Games. Throw away your dice and grab your deck o&#039; cards as if you were dumb enough to play poker. Also grab your &quot;player as contributory GM&quot; hat, because you will make up almost as much shit as the dude hypothetically in charge. This is mainly due to the odd nature of the system where to achieve anything you would use the would test your skill rating of 2-12 plus cards against a target number. The cards added their face value (or 11 for a jack, 12 for a queen, 13 for a king or 14 for a Ace) if the suit was aligned to the action. Clubs physical, Hearts Charisma, Diamonds perception, Spades social graces. As this meant that the cards were way more important than your characters skill they often determined what your course of action would be so mild mannered librarians holding clubs would be able to out shoot a veteran gunfighter holding hearts.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l12">Line 12:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For all the many quirks of the system, it was however a pioneering steam punk setting and the very fluid nature of the rules meant it is very easy to integrate almost anything into the story so GMs could plunder any literary source they felt like so games including Sherlock Holmes, HG Wells time machine, War of the Worlds Martians, Frankenstein, Fu Manchu, Phantomas weren&#039;t uncommon kind of like playing a game based on Anno Dracula by Kim Newman ([[Jack Yeovil]]).</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For all the many quirks of the system, it was however a pioneering steam punk setting and the very fluid nature of the rules meant it is very easy to integrate almost anything into the story so GMs could plunder any literary source they felt like so games including Sherlock Holmes, HG Wells time machine, War of the Worlds Martians, Frankenstein, Fu Manchu, Phantomas weren&#039;t uncommon kind of like playing a game based on Anno Dracula by Kim Newman ([[Jack Yeovil]]).</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{RTG-RPGS}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{RTG-RPGS}}</div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>The Hat That Was http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Castle_Falkenstein&diff=112442&oldid=prev 2018-06-23T23:47:34Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:47, 23 June 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l11">Line 11:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Set in a Victorian era where Bismark and his Prussians were out to conquer Europe with their land tanks and Unseelie Fey allies, held back by the air ships and plucky heroes of the German principality of Bayern, while the rest of the great powers mainly bickered and intrigued amongst themselves. RTG produced half a dozen supplements including an ok one on America to expand the setting (all done from the point of view of a time travelling American from the 80s).</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Set in a Victorian era where Bismark and his Prussians were out to conquer Europe with their land tanks and Unseelie Fey allies, held back by the air ships and plucky heroes of the German principality of Bayern, while the rest of the great powers mainly bickered and intrigued amongst themselves. RTG produced half a dozen supplements including an ok one on America to expand the setting (all done from the point of view of a time travelling American from the 80s).</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For all the many quirks of the system, it was however a pioneering steam punk setting and the very fluid nature of the rules meant it is very easy to integrate almost anything into the story so GMs could plunder any literary source they felt like so games including Sherlock Holmes, HG Wells time machine, War of the Worlds Martians, Frankenstein, Fu Manchu, Phantomas weren't uncommon kind of like playing a game based on Anno Dracula by Kim Newman [[Jack Yeovil]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For all the many quirks of the system, it was however a pioneering steam punk setting and the very fluid nature of the rules meant it is very easy to integrate almost anything into the story so GMs could plunder any literary source they felt like so games including Sherlock Holmes, HG Wells time machine, War of the Worlds Martians, Frankenstein, Fu Manchu, Phantomas weren't uncommon kind of like playing a game based on Anno Dracula by Kim Newman <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(</ins>[[Jack Yeovil]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">)</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{RTG-RPGS}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{RTG-RPGS}}</div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>Because http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Castle_Falkenstein&diff=112441&oldid=prev 2018-06-23T23:47:10Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:47, 23 June 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l11">Line 11:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Set in a Victorian era where Bismark and his Prussians were out to conquer Europe with their land tanks and Unseelie Fey allies, held back by the air ships and plucky heroes of the German principality of Bayern, while the rest of the great powers mainly bickered and intrigued amongst themselves. RTG produced half a dozen supplements including an ok one on America to expand the setting (all done from the point of view of a time travelling American from the 80s).</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Set in a Victorian era where Bismark and his Prussians were out to conquer Europe with their land tanks and Unseelie Fey allies, held back by the air ships and plucky heroes of the German principality of Bayern, while the rest of the great powers mainly bickered and intrigued amongst themselves. RTG produced half a dozen supplements including an ok one on America to expand the setting (all done from the point of view of a time travelling American from the 80s).</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For all the many quirks of the system, it was however a pioneering steam punk setting and the very fluid nature of the rules meant it is very easy to integrate almost anything into the story so GMs could plunder any literary source they felt like so games including Sherlock Holmes, HG Wells time machine, War of the Worlds Martians, Frankenstein, Fu Manchu, Phantomas weren't uncommon kind of like playing a game based on Anno Dracula by Kim Newman.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For all the many quirks of the system, it was however a pioneering steam punk setting and the very fluid nature of the rules meant it is very easy to integrate almost anything into the story so GMs could plunder any literary source they felt like so games including Sherlock Holmes, HG Wells time machine, War of the Worlds Martians, Frankenstein, Fu Manchu, Phantomas weren't uncommon kind of like playing a game based on Anno Dracula by Kim Newman <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Jack Yeovil]]</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{RTG-RPGS}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{RTG-RPGS}}</div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>Because http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Castle_Falkenstein&diff=112440&oldid=prev 2018-06-23T23:46:04Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:46, 23 June 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l3">Line 3:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 3:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It&#039;s an magic/steampunk [[RPG]] published by R. Talsorian Games. Throw away your dice and grab your deck o&#039; cards as if you were dumb enough to play poker. Also grab your &quot;player as contributory GM&quot; hat, because you will make up almost as much shit as the dude hypothetically in charge. This is mainly due to the odd nature of the system where to achieve anything you would use the would test your skill rating of 2-12 plus cards against a target number. The cards added their face value (or 11 for a jack, 12 for a queen, 13 for a king or 14 for a Ace) if the suit was aligned to the action. Clubs physical, Hearts Charisma, Diamonds perception, Spades social graces. As this meant that the cards were way more important than your characters skill they often determined what your course of action would be so mild mannered librarians holding clubs would be able to out shoot a veteran gunfighter holding hearts.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It&#039;s an magic/steampunk [[RPG]] published by R. Talsorian Games. Throw away your dice and grab your deck o&#039; cards as if you were dumb enough to play poker. Also grab your &quot;player as contributory GM&quot; hat, because you will make up almost as much shit as the dude hypothetically in charge. This is mainly due to the odd nature of the system where to achieve anything you would use the would test your skill rating of 2-12 plus cards against a target number. The cards added their face value (or 11 for a jack, 12 for a queen, 13 for a king or 14 for a Ace) if the suit was aligned to the action. Clubs physical, Hearts Charisma, Diamonds perception, Spades social graces. As this meant that the cards were way more important than your characters skill they often determined what your course of action would be so mild mannered librarians holding clubs would be able to out shoot a veteran gunfighter holding hearts.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As you could hold up to 4 cards if you got them you could store a hand to pull off a particular action[[Just as planned]] (to the annoyance of everyone else as those cards wouldn't be in circulation). It also led to a near pathological desire in all players to look for any reason to jettison any Spades they held as they were nearly always useless.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As you could hold up to 4 cards if you got them you could store a hand to pull off a particular action [[Just as planned]] (to the annoyance of everyone else as those cards wouldn't be in circulation). It also led to a near pathological desire in all players to look for any reason to jettison any Spades they held as they were nearly always useless.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The system theoretically lets you play as magicians, fey (many different varieties) and even dragons although the rules that accompanied them varied from stupid to entirely broken.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The system theoretically lets you play as magicians, fey (many different varieties) and even dragons although the rules that accompanied them varied from stupid to entirely broken.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l9">Line 9:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 9:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>System quirks aside, astonishing fluff, almost [[Space: 1889]]-like in its period genre madness.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>System quirks aside, astonishing fluff, almost [[Space: 1889]]-like in its period genre madness.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Set in a Victorian era where Bismark and his Prussians were out to conquer Europe with their land tanks and Unseelie Fey allies, held back by the air ships and plucky heroes of the German principality of Bayern, while the rest of the great powers <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">main </del>bickered amongst themselves. RTG produced half a dozen supplements including an ok one on America to expand the setting (all done from the point of view of a time travelling American from the 80s).</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Set in a Victorian era where Bismark and his Prussians were out to conquer Europe with their land tanks and Unseelie Fey allies, held back by the air ships and plucky heroes of the German principality of Bayern, while the rest of the great powers <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mainly </ins>bickered <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and intrigued </ins>amongst themselves. RTG produced half a dozen supplements including an ok one on America to expand the setting (all done from the point of view of a time travelling American from the 80s).</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For all the many quirks of the system, it was however a pioneering steam punk setting and the very fluid nature of the rules meant it is very easy to integrate almost anything into the story so GMs could plunder any literary source they felt like.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For all the many quirks of the system, it was however a pioneering steam punk setting and the very fluid nature of the rules meant it is very easy to integrate almost anything into the story so GMs could plunder any literary source they felt like <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so games including Sherlock Holmes, HG Wells time machine, War of the Worlds Martians, Frankenstein, Fu Manchu, Phantomas weren't uncommon kind of like playing a game based on Anno Dracula by Kim Newman</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{RTG-RPGS}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{RTG-RPGS}}</div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>Because