By Kevin Crawford
The chilly Stars watch for Your Tread
Engines of Babylon delivers all of the instruments you want to upload customized autos and low-tech procedure ships to the unfastened Stars with no quantity online game method. even if as trophies of impressive adventuring wealth or as savage harbingers of a antagonistic energy, you'll locate every thing from gravitic backyard skiffs to major conflict tanks inside of those pages and the tips you wish for development method ships for these campaigns set in a closer future.
Not simply that, yet inside of you'll discover a strong trove of valuable treasures to present the interest of reckless freebooters, and a range of maltech horrors to whet the remorseless appetites of any villain important of the name!
Inside this 42-page number of tech, you'll find....
* principles for developing customized autos, with 15 instance cars on your use.
* ideas for low-tech method ships for near-future sci-fi campaigns.
* Fifteen instance process ships for simple creation into your game.
* Twenty important treasures of area to gift the avaricious interest of your fearless explorers.
* 8 abhorrent miscreations of forbidden maltech, applied sciences devised for hideous ends to fulfill the mad objectives in their creators.
Grab Engines of Babylon and plunder the useless previous on your gaming this day!
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