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General Information

Machina Obscura is a project to create a Steampunk Roleplaying Game with Pen & Paper, cardgame and Tabletop characteristics. The players can create and develope their characters in the pen & paper part (with all features of a normal pen & paper rpg) and battle with their vehicles, ships or airships in the Cardgame/Tabletop part.

The Colonial Steamship "Phantom"
copyright by Machina Obscura
Artist: Tomek Belzowski

In this game, which is set in a steampunky, somewhat victorian background (in our world, it would be the time from 1840 - 1900), the skies are crowded with airships (not only zeppelins, but also actual flying ships...), the oceans are conquered not only by sailing ships but also by steamboats and steam-submarines. There are cities which have train lines with other major cities, some even have an inner-city train line (or tram-lines). But there are also many land vehicles powered by steam or electricity which roam the continents.

This is an after-war world; there were the so-called "Ancient Civilizations" who fought a war which brought them nearly to extintion, at least to a state where all the knowledge was lost. Now, after hundreds of years, the civilization has recovered, and Archaelogists and Adventurers bring the news of the old civilizations - i.e. in the Great Rainforest of Southern Maccara, where several gigantic mechanical spiders can be found. Those are long destroyed & long beyond repair - and overrun by the forest plants. But they were the foundation of the invention "Mechanical Spider", which is a small but fearsome machine which everybody with the necessary skillz and parts can build.

The players can choose from different character classes (not races, as there will be no dwarfs, elves and the like to the game), which involve Engineer, Chemist, Blacksmith, Professor, Adventurer, Archaelogist, Electrician, Businessman and many more. A big part in the game are the inventions. You will use manuals, which you can buy or discover if you are lucky, and use if you have the necessary skills. In order to do so, you will need to have the necessary parts, and then with a test on your specific talent you can create those inventions. It will be even possible for the players to create their own, mindblowing wonders of technology - if the game master is grateful. You can send these inventions to this account if you like, and if they fit in the gameplay, they will be added to the official manuals.

There will be a newspaper, the "New Central Chronicle" where new technologies and every major event in the gameworld will be presented.

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All content of the project Machina Obscura, both visual and textual, are fully or in parts (participating artists are notedly accounted for their work, and additionally they can are listed in the "Impressum" with links back to their original artworks) the personal creation of Florian Liedtke, and are copyrighted under German Copyright Laws, UrHG Gesetz über Urheberrecht und verwandte Schutzrechte (Urheberrechtsgesetz), see www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/BJNR012730965.html#BJNR012730965BJNG000101377

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