2/27/2023 0 Comments Offworld activation soundboard![]() I'll note here that Carbon 2185 does change the names of two of the stats (wisdom and Charisma to Technology and People. At a skim, however, the basic mechanics of the game are fundamentally unchanged from 5E.Īfter a brief gloss of the setting (Put a pin in that), and another brief gloss over the rule conceits, we jump right into character creation. In fact, I'd say that its greatest flaw is that it doesn't adapt enough, given the conceptual distance between its setting conceits and those of D&D, but that said it does provide some interesting takes on the 5E formula that are worth a deeper look, which we'll get to as we go. It starts a basic rundown of the rules, flows into character creation, then into a deeper rules chapter before a clean break to talk about the setting in detail, all while giving you lots of little morsels of setting in an organic and easily digestible format.īefore I begin delving into the chapters, I should start by explaining that Carbon 2185 is, from a rule standpoint, very little other than a mild variant of 5E D&D. ![]() I suspect a couple of pieces are 3d Render art, but done well enough that their only real flaw is that the don't fit with the graphic theme of the rest of the art.Ĭarbon 2185 is also well organized as a book, better organized, for example, than the 5E D&D PHB. Just say no, man.Ĭredit to Dragon Turtle Games, the book is beautiful and well put together, with solid artwork that mostly fits a specific theme and style, creating a solid visual cohesion to the work, though there are a few pieces that don't quite fit quite as well thematically, I can only recall the single background piece that doesn't fit qualitatively. like napkin-sketch bad, tucked in behind a much more professional bit of artwork in the character chapter. I was going to avoid any social commentary, especially involving 'behind the scenes speculation', but I did note that in the credits that someone with a familial name (wife? Daughter? Trans-son?) of the designer/lead writer, was given an art credit, and there is a single piece of stand-out art, in the worst possible way, in the book. ![]() Pleasantly, the artwork on the website is very much in line with the artwork in the book, so no false advertising. ![]() To begin with, it seems it is only available from the company's website, with prices listed in Euros, so I'm going to guess that they are European? The book was reasonably pricey, but not obnoxiously so, but it did arrive fairly quickly, I'd say just over a week. I saw this game mentioned in a thread on Cyberpunk, and as I'm an unrepentant fan of the genre, I decided to check it out, without knowing anything else about it. ![]()
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