Can't find a match...

[Captain_K]

I'm thinking of allowing a little bit of tech into our game. matches, acids, smoke bombs, that kind of thing. No guns or laser rifles... I cannot find anything in the CKG on these sort of small bits... well I found acid I think and lots of guns, but not the other stuff. Am I missing it some place in CnC books? I know where to find some in 2nd or 3rd ed DnD as a model.

Any suggestions outside the above notes would be most welcome.

[Traveller]

Nothing in C&C, as tindertwigs, sunrods, and tanglefoot bags are all d20 inventions.

[Captain_K]

Good to hear, I could not find anything but guns in the CKG and I definitely don't want to go there. Just did not want to miss anything. But my group is largely engineers and one mathematicians. These guys are always thinking of stuff there character supposedly just dreams up that their characters would never know without alchemist or engineering training in their character background and even then their tech ideas are above the tech of the world. Thus I'm looking for a few things that are period close to help illustrate the correct level of technology. Obviously there is steel, fire, steam power was known, water's lifting power is known, war engines exist, ropes-block-tackle, etc. How good are the "traps", locks and instruments? Those are the kinds of things I'm going to look into. Any help would be welcome if someone has already done some work on this front.

[mmbutter]

Try to find a copy of "...And a 10' Pole"...

[serleran]

You might be able to cull something from: Here or here.

I would suggest at least looking through the entire conversion. Might be a nugget of use. Or not.

[Captain_K]

Got a ton of stuff there, snitched some... all your work?

[serleran]

Got a ton of stuff there, snitched some... all your work?

My conversion of the original work, yes. There are a few things that I added which were not in the source material.

[Captain_K]

You made a whole game system??? Wow, impressive.

[Treebore]

You made a whole game system??? Wow, impressive.

He pretty much converted a whole game system, but he wasn't the creator of the original. Arduin and what is now more commonly known as Talislanta are still their own RPG's.

[Captain_K]

I did not know any of that.. I guess I live in the woods...

[serleran]

I did not know any of that.. I guess I live in the woods...

Part of the reason these were selected for conversion was to give them a bit of new life, so that someone might discover them for the first time and, just maybe, like them as I do.

[Captain_K]

There are so many great ideas in there for the alchemist. Who would I credit for those ideas in the article I plan to write for the Doomsday? Please provide me a bibliography style ref for the Doomsday article. Here are some others I'm using as source material:
1. Landels, J.G., “Engineering in the Ancient World”, University of California Press, Berkeley 94720, ISBN 0-520-04127-5.
2. "Knave of spades Leavell 1702" by William Barclay Parsons Collection - New York Public Library Archives. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... l_1702.jpg

[Traveller]

Credit Robert, but tack on a "based upon works by [author]". For Talislanta that is Stephan Sechi, and for Arduin it's David Hargrave. So, " Robert Doyel, based upon works by Stephan Sechi" and "Robert Doyel, based upon works by David Hargrave".

[Captain_K]

Got it, thanks!