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And Now For Something Else Completely Different! Josh Roby's Renegade Jennys and Boilerplate Jacks

More steampunk swashbuckling goodness that Bishrook would have loved to bits.  It's still under development and playtesting, but rest assured that when it IS published, it's joining my library.  (I've got a couple of Mr. Roby's other games, like Full Light Full Steam, and I backed his supplement for Houses of the Blooded, so I admit a certain positive inclination toward his work.) Steampunk has a problem, although the degree to which it impacts your game depends on a number of factors such as which rule-set and setting you are using, the composition of your play group, and whether the GM is prone to pettifoggery on certain historical details.  Namely that the 'default' group is generally European (thus white) and tends to be middle-upper or upper class to one degree or another.  To be fair, there are exceptions!  In my (somewhat limited) experience, that's how things turn out--diversity, should it arise, is more likely in settings where you have Elves and