The adventure begins in the tried and true manner of having the PCs employed as caravan guards on their way to Corvis. Only this year’s festival will be one everyone will be talking about for years to come. The Longest Night is the first volume of a three volume campaign, and the events detailed in this volume are intended to take place over several weeks, if not months, leading up to Corvis’ celebration of the Longest Night, a rowdy carnival on the night of their regular lunar eclipse. But, enough with the history lecture, let’s get to the fun stuff: Steam power began to be harnessed in the early and mid 19th Century, and it wasn’t until the late 19th Century (at least until after the American Civil War on this side of the Atlantic) that the dark, satanic mills with their plumes of coal ash became the signifiers of industrialization. The Industrial Revolution spread to the United States as trained millwrights immigrated, selling their knowledge to proto-industrialists. The Industrial Revolution began in England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries with the construction of water powered mills where great leather belts carried the energy from the water wheels to looms and other machinery. The folks at Privateer also seem to be laboring under the mistaken assumption that steam power was the determining factor in the development of the Industrial Revolution. Craft Wondrous Item).įurthermore, although steam power has been available in the Iron Kingdoms for more than a century, it apparently has had only a slight impact on the society, culture, and economy of the Iron Kingdoms. This can easily be patched, though, by requiring more magical training for the construction and maintenance of steam boilers (i.e.
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By making steam power primarily a technical art, it is free from the alchemical constraints that they placed on firearms. One of the few other flaws in the setting, apart from the distinctive geography, is that the folks at Privateer Press have both made steam power too accessible and underestimated its impact. Luckily, Corvis seems to be in a fairly cool climate, so disease shouldn’t be too much of a problem. Corvis is also built along the three corners of the diverging rivers, despite the fact that most prudent folks in our world built their cities upstream of convergences in order to avoid flooding. I am not aware of any rivers on Earth that diverge the way Corvis’ rivers do, but diverge they do. Now you may be thinking, didn’t he mean “convergence” rather than “divergence”? No, I didn’t. The first nine pages of The Longest Night describe Corvis and its surroundings, providing a general overview of points of interest, governance, merchants, and guilds. Corvis sits among the marshlands at the divergence of the Black and Dragon’s Tongue rivers and thrives on the river trade to the north, south, and west. The Longest Night is set in the City of Corvis, a river city in the Kingdom of Cygnar. An unfortunate oversight that Privateer claims will soon be corrected by providing information on their web site. However, no stats are provided for steamjacks. Large construct of magic and steam that do the heavy lifting at the docks and that assist in law enforcement and that closely resemble the steam golems from Mage Knight. One of the most distinctive aspects of Corvis is the presence of the steamjacks. Additional rules for firearms are available at the Privateer Press web site. Rules are provided for both, including new skills such as Craft (gunsmith), Knowledge (firearms), Profession (steam engineer), and Knowledge (steamworks). Steam power and firearms are both present in the setting, only with an alchemical spin that both minimizes their presence in the setting and provides a fresh perspective on including these items in a fantasy game. The Iron Kingdoms features an intriguing blend of high Renaissance and steampunk.
All of the spoilers have been saved for the later part of the review, so read on until you get to the warning. The second book in the trilogy is now available. The Longest Night is the first book in the Witchfire Trilogy and Privateer Press’ introduction to its Iron Kingdoms setting and is designed for 1st-3d level characters.
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