[UA] What Mechanomancers built in my game (was Steampunk)

[Greg Stolze]

>Cassady Toles escribió:
>>
>> On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 23:29:54 -0500, ua at lists.uchicago.edu wrote:
>>
>>   >However - OK, here's the real question - if Mechanomancers cannot create
>>   >Machines capable of magical effects, then what kind of artifacts would
>> they
>>   >build?  (I love the artifact rules, BTW.  Simple, elegant and sensible.)
>>   >
>
>I am mostly in the no magickal effects, but I'd also allow a few eerie
>effects.
>
>I.E., somewhere in my HDD I've got a unfinished scenario with a
>clockworker afraid of the Sleepers. The guy owns a tow lot, and he has
>several defensive clockworks hiding among the cars. The clockworks can
>somehow communicate among themselves and coordinate efforts, but not by
>any normal means like sound, smell or gestures. They just can do it.

Why not smell?  The idea of clockworks belching pheremones out of their
tailpipes has a certain appeal.  Or the creak of their metal could be a
secret language...

-G.

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