(Tentative) Table of Contents
Welcome to the Age of Supermankind
What is a Role Playing Game?
1. Character Generation
Templates of Predominant Stereotypes
Attributes
Skills
Supernatural Powers
Shortcomings
2. Completing your Hero or Heroine
Adjust Combat Scores
Alignments and Associations
Levels
Equippage and Finances
3. Worlds of Adventure
Combat: Man and SuperMankind
The Gentle Art of Pugilism
Armor Class
Deadeyes and Sureshots
Performing acts of skill and acts of puissance
4. Public Mayhems
Breaking Things
Vehicles and their maintenance
Stalking The Night and its Vermin
Persons encountered in the course of duty
5. The Victorious Era
Forward to the Past!
Timeline of Events
Law and Crime in the Victorious Era
Society and Classes
Great Britain and London
United States and New York City
Europe and Africa
Central and South America
The Orient
The "Great Game"
Espionage and the Spy
Victorians Secret: The Dark Side of Victorian Culture
6. A Gallery of the Curious and Strange:
Heroes: The Great and the Good
10-12 Heroes Detailed
Neutral: Persons of Dubious Intent
5 Neutral Figures Detailed
Evil: Villains of the Deepest Dye
12-15 Villains Detailed
A Bestiary of Phantasmagoria
Animals of Nature
Animals of Mythology
Animals of the Beyond
7. Introductory Adventure: The Night of the Jackals
8. Appendixes
Appendix I: Who's Who in the Victorious Era
A. Map of London and the British Isles
B. Persons of Note in the British Empire
C. Map of New York City 1880 and New England
D. Persons of Note in the United States of America
Appendix II: Lives and Livelihood
Cost of activities and Entertainments
Employment and Remuneration
Finance and its Conversions
Appendix III: Suggestions for Further Reading
Historical Books
Novels of the 19th Century
Modern Steampunk Fiction
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Always remember, as a first principle of all D&D: playing BtB is not now, never was and never will be old school.- Tim Kask, Dragonsfoot
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The obvious will always trip you up FAR more than the obscure.
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High Warden of the Castles & Crusades Society
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