Steam power on Golarion


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In my current game, I am about to send my players on an extended river boat trip. Are there steam powered vehicles (i.e. ships) on Golarion, or am I limited to sailing type ships?

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BBiggar wrote:
In my current game, I am about to send my players on an extended river boat trip. Are there steam powered vehicles (i.e. ships) on Golarion, or am I limited to sailing type ships?

To the best of my knowledge, the highest technology level available on Golarion is comparable to the early to mid Renaissance. So, I do not think that there are steam vessels.

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No steam power on Golarion. There are certain magical types of propulsion, but those tend to be very rare and strange and weird.


James Jacobs wrote:
No steam power on Golarion. There are certain magical types of propulsion, but those tend to be very rare and strange and weird.

Yeah I kinda thought so, now maybe a clockwork powered riverboat.....


Make it a gunpowder-powered engine...just don't forget to have your players make a save vs. deafness.


James Jacobs wrote:
No steam power on Golarion. There are certain magical types of propulsion, but those tend to be very rare and strange and weird.

...and as I understand it, they also do bad things to people/societies that use them. the Shory had all sorts of weird badness just hit them out of the blue one day.

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