Airships, Flintlocks, Cthulhu and Magick!

A whole new game line, coming soon from Cakebread & Walton!

Pirates like gold. Dragons like gold. When the terrors of the sea meet the terrors of the sky, there’s bound to be trouble!

They came from Albion, from Gaule and Esbania and Batavia, in search of the treasures of the New World. They found a menace older than mankind – dragons!

In their mountain lairs on the Dragon Isles, giant beasts – old and wise and malevolent – sit on their piles of gold, surrounded by their zombie minions. The natives have found ways of appeasing or evading them – the Dragon Tribes honour them with gold and human sacrifice, the other Islanders use their magic to hide away or resist. The Uropans must rely on gunpowder and cold steel.

And the pirates? The pirates will use whatever comes to hand in their battle with the dragons. Armed with science, sorcery, steel and superstition, they take the fight into the dragons’ lairs in their endless quest for gold.

Pirates & Dragons is a role-playing game of fantasy swashbuckling in a world of magic and treasure, of fantastical islands inhabited by strange beasts and vile necromancers, of treachery and heroism. Together with a group of friends, you take on the role of pirates, out for adventure and booty – raiding the treasure galleons of Esbania, the merchant fleets of Gaule and Batavia, the dragon-hunting ships of Albion, the ruins of lost Adalantas… and the gold-filled caves of ancient and evil dragons.

Gather your crew. Load your flintlocks. And prepare to plunder!

Pirates & Dragons features slick, cinematic game mechanics based on the acclaimed Renaissance D100 system, and comes to you from the Origins Award nominated authors of Abney Park’s Airship Pirates and Clockwork & Chivalry.

Watch out for news of the Kickstarter launch! Follow Cakebread & Walton on Facebook!

Cakebread & Walton are one of a number of RPG companies breathing new life into Lovecraftian horror roleplaying. Based on their critically acclaimed Reniassance Deluxe role-playing system (an OGL variant of the long established D100 Basic Roleplaying system), C&W have a number of products which take the Cthulhu Mythos to new places.

Dark Streets casts the players as members of the Bow Street Runners, investigating Mythos activity in the grim, vice-ridden streets of 18^th century London. The core worldbook contains an in-depth guide to the London of 1749, complete with detailed period maps, information on the Mythos in the era, and a long adventure, “Gin and St Giles”, which takes the characters to the deadly heart of the St Giles rookery. Dark Streets needs the Renaissance Deluxe Core Rulebook.

Also available for Dark Streets is a 50-page adventure, Hellfire, which leads the Bow Street Runners from the brothels of London to the country estate of the infamous Sir Francis Dashwood of the Hellfire Club.

Further adventures are planned for the Dark Streets world.

Also available is Clockwork & Cthulhu, which adds the Cthulhu Mythos to the alternate historical fantasy world of Clockwork & Chivalry, in which the English Civil War is fought between the battle alchemists of the Royalists and the clockwork war machines of the Parliamentarians. Clockwork & Chivalry contains background information on the period and three long adventures, “The Doom That Came to Oxford”, “The Bay of Terror”, and “The Whisperers in Furness”. Clockwork & Cthulhu can be played in conjunction with either the Clockwork & Chivalry 2^nd Edition Core Rulebook, the Renaissance Deluxe Core Rulebook, or the free downloadable Renaissance SRD. Although set in the Clockwork & Chivalry universe, the adventures can easily be adapted to standard English Civil War historical background.

Also available for Clockwork & Cthulhu is a 30 page adventure, The Mystery of Shirdley Hall, in which the Adventurers must investigate strange events at the newly inherited home of their friend William Cartwright.

“What can I say about this gem? As soon as I started reading it I was hooked, with ideas galore springing up as to what I could do with it.” – Ade J., DriveThruRPG

“These guys are making some of the most amazing historical books I’ve seen in a very long time. Their Dark Streets … brings the mythos to 18th century London with exquisite details, and a system that’s very compatible with CoC’s. … Hellfire … details a dark and secret evil lurking in Sir Francis Dashwood’s Hellfire Club, in an adventure that could have been easy to make very shallow, but instead the authors went for something complex and magnificence, with some unexpected surprises.” – RPG Pundit

“This is by far my favourite implementation of the d100 systems.” – Aaron, Roleplayers’ Chronicle

Cakebread & Walton’s print games are distributed by Cubicle 7 Entertainment and are available from all good game stores. They are also all available as PDFs from DriveThruRPG. Renaissance Deluxe, Clockwork & Chivalry and Clockwork & Cthulhu are already in print, with Dark Streets and Hellfire to follow shortly. The Mystery of Shirdley and the free Renaissance SRD are available in PDF format only.

Dark Streets

The Adventures of the Bow Street Runners in their Struggle Against the Minions of the Cthulhu Mythos

London, 1749: A city of vice, crime and misery. Gangs of ruffians rule the streets, unopposed. Brothels proliferate. Child-beggars starve in filthy gutters. Corrupt night-watchmen and thief-takers turn a blind eye to wrong-doing. And dark creatures lurk in back alleys, called from beyond by the desperate with nothing left to lose.

But there is a new force on the streets of London; for the author and magistrate Henry Fielding has teamed up with his brother John to form the city’s first police force – the Bow Street Runners. The Fieldings have persuaded parliament to fund their crime-fighting endeavour, but they know that there is something behind the vice – for John Fielding’s blind eyes can see things that others cannot – things that man was not meant to know.

Dark Streets is a worldbook and adventure for the Renaissance Deluxe RPG, in which players take on the roles of officers in London’s first, desperately small, police force, investigating the dark secrets behind the sordid crimes of eighteenth century London. A mixture of authentic history and the cosmic horror of H.P. Lovecraft, Dark Steets comes to you from the designers of Clockwork & Cthulhu, Clockwork & Chivalry and the Origins Award Nominated Abney Park’s Airship Pirates RPG.

Requires the Renaissance Deluxe RPG core rulebook.

Dark Streets is available NOW from DriveThruRPG, and as a special Christmas offer, you can buy it in a special bundle with the Renaissance Deluxe rules, for only $1 more!

Dark Streets will be out as a paperback book from Cubicle 7 Publishing early in 2013.

Great reviews of Clockwork & Chivalry 2nd edition, Kingdom & Commonwealth Omnibus I, and Renaissance Deluxe over at RPGNet…

“Clockwork and Chivalry is one of the best historical games I have seen this year, and the only one from this column that has gone on to become a regular weekly campaign for my regular gaming group. Cakebread and Walton, the authors, deserve high honors for their game and should be proud to live up to their title of purveyors of fine imaginings.”

http://www.rpg.net/columns/abitofhistory/abitofhistory44.phtml

A great review of Renaissance Deluxe over at Roleplayers Chronicle!

Overall: 9 out of 10
I definitely recommend the Renaissance d100 system as an excellent comparison to its predecessors. I also definitely recommend it for those wanting a game set in a black powder setting. These are two things that Renaissance Deluxe does very, very well and it’s worth taking a look at if you’re shopping for a new game system.

http://roleplayerschronicle.com/?p=27914