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GALVANIC ADVENTURES

Galvanic Adventures is a Victorian fantasy and steampunk inspired tabletop roleplaying game.

What's Included

Apart from the core rules, this setting contains the following unique elements, which help expand on the themes and tropes found in Victorian fantasy adventures and stories:

SKILLS AND FEATURES: customised skills and features specific to the setting.
MAGICAL ABILITIES: over a hundred magical abilities to let you customise and tailor your character’s connection to the magical world.
ENCHANTED EQUIPMENT: simple rules for designing custom enchanted equipment to give to your brave adventurers and explorers.
MODIFICATIONS: customise and modify your weapons and armour, giving your equipment special and unique properties.
LOCATIONS: unique environmental effects that offer benefits and penalties for being in different urban locations.
UNIQUE CREATURES: creature creation rules and hundreds of creature templates for quick use in your adventures. Creature types include: beast, construct, draconic, elemental, fey, humanoid, monstrosity, and undead.
CUSTOM VEHICLES: vehicle creation rules and a plethora of vehicle templates for quick use in your adventures. Vehicle types include: wheel, walker, watercraft, airship, and propeller.
VEHICLE COMBAT: integrated combat rules that won't require switching between infantry and vehicles.

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The Setting

The Victorian fantasy setting focuses on life during the 19th century – a period of burgeoning science, industrialisation, extreme hardship, and inequality – but combines it with other elements, such as fantastical magic, advanced technology, urban and metropolitan life, steampunk and gaslamp, and the gothic themes of horror, death and violence.

Perhaps more than any other, the Victorian period captures the imagination of many because it is a crucible of unlimited potential, ingenuity and determination; a time where anything seems possible. However, in stark contrast, it is also set against a backdrop of extreme poverty, belligerence, selfishness, desperation, and centralised power, where ancestry and lineage can drastically alter one’s circumstances.

The unique alchemy of the setting paves the way for adventures filled with hope, wonder, intrigue, mystery, fear, and horror. While primarily focused on urban exploration, it is also possible to explore more rural adventures. This book will focus on some of the most popular and commonly used settings and themes, which include: Metropolis Living, Gothic Adventures, Crime and Investigation, Science and Technology, Magical Powers, and Sailing the High Seas.

Each of these elements can be thematically linked or combined in some way to explore a unique fusion of the settings. For example, a series of unusual crimes could be occurring where it is believed that the culprit is using magic, merging the investigation and magical elements.

Alternatively, a city could become a hunting ground for a coven of vampires, terrorising its denizens and renewing their fear of the night. Irrespective of the combination, a unique story can be told that captures the feel and essence of the period…with a twist. The only limit is your imagination.

FEATURES

Metropolis Living

It would be impossible to imagine the Victorian era without cities and metropolises. The stench of the slums. The affluence of the commerce district. The cacophony of the docks. They are all intrinsically linked with the period. Knowing your way around any urban locale is an art form.

This book provides you with unique environments that are tied to different urban locations. For example, using the sewers is a great way to travel unseen and reduces the travelling time from one district to another. But the murky depths are difficult to navigate and might be hiding their own share of surprises.

Alternatively, you may choose to try hunting down a rumour at the docks, which is filled with plenty of gossip about the city. However, the sheer volume of clutter and cargo makes it a nightmare to find anything. Learning to use these locations to your advantage is an exciting way to promote exploration and facilitate immersion of the setting.

Gothic Adventures

The dark is home to all manner of creatures, whose intentions can be good or ill, depending on your perspective. Whether you are stalking prey in the woods near a hamlet, witnessing the terrifying transformation of a were-beast, or expelling supernatural creatures from a haunted apartment, there is always something lurking in the gloom, provided you have the courage to face it. Although, it is important to remember that violence isn’t always the answer and perhaps there is more going on below the surface.

This book provides you with unique features for stalking, battling, and capturing the forces of the night, exploring mysteries and adventures as a legendary monster hunter.

Crime & Investigation

In the age of industry, crime is as rampant as pollution. The struggle for survival brings with it a coldness that pushes creatures to perform the unspeakable.

From gangs of ruffians fighting turf wars over control of illegal commerce and goods, to serial killers who prey on the poor and affluent alike at the behest of the voices in their head, there is no shortage of work for constables and inspectors. Grab your nightstick and lantern and begin scouring the darkness for evil.

This book provides you with an impressive array of ways to personalise your constables and inspectors be it through violence and coercion, exceptional investigation skills, or smooth talking and sharp wits. Someone needs to rid the cobblestone streets of violence and filth.

Science & Technology

No Victorian fantasy setting would be complete without a healthy dose of retro science and technology. Perhaps one of the most thematic and exciting aspects of the Victorian era was the exploration and expansion of knowledge on the psychological and physical elements of the universe.

This book provides you with ways to express your inner scientist or artificer by inventing gismos and gadgets to help you with your adventuring, or by creating living, breathing creations to serve as allies.

In this setting, you can create fantastic companion creatures to carry out your commands, or invent things on the fly with features that allow you to augment your equipment to function in weird and wonderful ways.

Magical Powers

The power of magic can be represented as either archaic, contemporary, ubiquitous, or rare, depending on the type of adventures you hope to explore.

The fantasy element of the setting allows you to infuse everyday elements with magical properties, or treat them as rarities that conjure wonder, fear and mystery. Deciding on this prevalence will grant your setting with a unique feel and culture.

This book provides you with magical powers that you can use to create wondrous effects from flying to turning yourself invisible. Similarly, it offers you the ability to acquire equipment that is enchanted with magical properties.

Sail The High Seas

Enjoy swashbuckling adventures as you sail from port to port as a salty sea dog, working under a sun-bleached captain, and protecting precious cargo from vicious pirates on route to exotic locations.

Alternatively, steal a vessel and take to the high seas as a bloodthirsty pirate yourself, plundering and pillaging with your own crew of cutthroats.

This book provides a plethora of ships you can use in your adventures to simulate exciting sea battles, exploring life as a sailor or corsair aboard a mighty sea rover. They can also be used as a setting for sea-faring adventures.