Tephra RPG

Tephra: The Clockwork Roleplaying System • About Tephra & Playtesting
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Tephra: The Clockwork RPG

Tephra RPG Playtesting

Cracked Monocle playtestes their steampunk RPG, Tephra at Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® Austin on Monday nights.

If you’re weary of the same old elves and dwarves of fantasy; if you live science fiction, but it’s become a bit overdone; if you’re looking for a new modern RP experience – then, welcome, good gentlesirs and gentleladies – to Tephra.

About Tephra

Steam, magic, automatons, your ancestral sword, her magnetech rifle, a little luck and a dirigible’s worth of courage – these are your weapons in the world of collisions. Board your airship and hold on tight, everything from sky pirates to tax collectors to evil spirits are just over the prow. Join our world and experience Tephra, the revolutionary tabletop roleplaying experience, and create your ultimate gentleman adventurer.

Tephra RPG Steampunk Paladin Steam, wild gizmos, hulking automatons controlled by advanced brainworks and bio-engineered abominations, chainsaw swords, locomotives and elegant airships – let me introduce you to steampunk, a time ruled by intelligent industry, vests, top hats, and corsets. A time where adventure was one dirigible’s ride away, and gentlemanly duty was society’s norm. Welcome to Tephra, a steam-powered fantasy world, where fantasy meets science fiction all pounded together into a pre-industrial technological boom.

Tephra is an evolutionary roleplaying experience, D12 built by gamers who enjoy an easy-to-learn system with unlimited options. You’ll feel at home in our easy to use system, with just one die (a twelve-sider), over 400 different character abilities, and a seemingly unlimited amount of character combinations. We’ve done away with the class – you build your character the way you see them, the way you want them to work. Everything’s available from level 1, and it only gets better.

Then delve into our rich and easy crafting system. Customize your razor-edged, chainsawing claymore or your electrified, steam-powered longrifle to your heart’s content. And it doesn’t stop at weapons – you can build an entire automaton, customizing its body, the way it thinks, the weapon’s it uses, and how it functions, and, when you’re done with that one, build another! And steampunk wouldn’t be complete with airships, dirigibles, and locomotives. And, of course, you can build them all! Customize your train so that it has a deployable helium-filled envelope, is entirely amphibious, has magnetech cannons lining its side, and has a roaring engine that nobody can out pace. And that’s just the beginning.

From our easy character creation system to our intuitive and high-movement combat rules to our enormous array of character abilities, Tephra will leave you building, creating, and dreaming until you can’t take it anymore. This is steampunk – the options are unlimited.

Playtesting

Cracked Monocle conducts playtesting through one-shot RP sessions, multi-session short games and long-term campaigns, examining every facet of their revolutionary RPG system.

They’re happy to teach new players aout their system or even to induct new role-players into the hobby. They’ll teach prospective players about the steampunk genre and induct them into the Tephra RPG.

Tephra is a unique D12 (12-sided die) based system with incredible options for character creation, item imagination and storytelling.

WHEN: Monday nights at 7 PM
WHERE: Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® Austin
COST: Free

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Cracked Monocle Productions

Cracked Monocle Productions Cracked Monocle is a steampunk company working to put its own spin on the genre. Best known for their Steampunk Tabletop RPG, Tephra, they have been hard at work expanding the steampunk and tabletop gaming community.

Steam engines, wild gizmos, hulking automatons with advanced brainworks, chainsaw swords, locomotives and elegant airships – let me introduce you to steampunk, a time ruled by intelligent industry, vests, top hats, and corsets. A time where adventure was one dirigible’s ride away and gentlemanly duty was society’s norm. Welcome to Tephra, a tabletop roleplaying game set in a world where fantasy meets science fiction, all pounded together into a pre-industrial, steam-powered boom.

Cracked Monocle has also recently started producing steampunk props and jewelry, much of which will soon be for sale online!

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Location & Directions

Address:

Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® Austin
6111 Burnet Rd
Austin TX 78757

austinmap Directions from IH35
• Exit 2222/290 West exit.
• Turn right on Burnet Rd.
• Dragon’s Lair is in the blue awninged shopping center on the right (there is a 7-11 on the corner).

Directions from MOPAC (Loop 1)
• Exit Northland/2222 exit and head east.
• Turn left on Burnet Rd.
• Dragon’s Lair is in the blue awninged shopping center on the right (there is a 7-11 on the corner).

Need help finding our Austin store? Get directions on Google Maps.

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Schedule

Date	Time	Event
Monday April 4	7 PM	Tephra RPG Playtest
Monday April 11	7 PM	Tephra RPG Playtest
Monday April 18	7 PM	Tephra RPG Playtest
Monday April 25	7 PM	Tephra RPG Playtest
Monday May 2	7 PM	Tephra RPG Playtest
Monday May 9	7 PM	Tephra RPG Playtest
Monday May 16	7 PM	Tephra RPG Playtest
Monday May 23	7 PM	Tephra RPG Playtest
Monday May 30	7 PM	Tephra RPG Playtest