New York, New York, it’s a helluva city! The Bronx is up however the Battery’s additionally up as a result of they each run on anti-gravity now! Haha, oh my sides. Please excuse my very whimsical Broadway introduction to Aether & Iron, a sci-fantasy RPG from an alternate Thirties wherein New York has taken a flip for the Bioshock Infinite, hovering by way of the clouds care of fancy “aether” expertise.
It’s impressed by artwork deco and Thirties detective comics, incorporates a turn-based fight system involving getaway automobiles, and is the work of a staff that features former Ubisoft scribe Justin Cummings. Right here’s a trailer.
In Aether & Iron you play an offensively trendy smuggler who sports activities the sort of trenchcoat and fedora mixture I dream of pulling off, however which usually makes me look as if I’ve gotten dressed at a themepark giftshop whereas escaping a flood. Utilizing what seems to be a mix of ornate map screens, visible novel backdrops and workshop menus, you’ll recruit a crew and carry contraband whereas increase three core stats – Hustle, Smarts, and Brass.
“Regardless of how good you’re at all times a cube roll away from success or failure,” the blurb cautions. I think about they lose a whole lot of cube up there in giddy, free-floating New York. Town’s tabletop role-players have to be an absolute plague on the folks dwelling beneath – think about being killed by a D20 dropped from 10 miles up. However I digress.
In the middle of making a tidy haul on the seedy facet of the tracks, additionally, you will have the chance to “rise as a savior, withdraw as a renegade, or evolve into a logo of resilience in a world of authoritarian barons and high-stakes technique”. Whichever route you decide, it seems like there might be loads of automobile chases. The sport’s aether-powered roadsters could be outfitted with smoke dispensers, flame throwers, metal plates and grenade launchers. Going by the trailer above, the vehicular battles are grid-based with the quirk that the splitting of the highway may divide one driver from the remainder.
Aether & Iron appeals to me partly as a result of they’ve efficiently rolled a type of D20s and conquered the urge to label it “aetherpunk”. Properly finished, builders Seismic Squirrel! That was an in depth one. I additionally fairly benefit from the snippets I’ve caught of the writing from the trailer. You’ll be able to learn extra on Steam.
