Rooting through my old game books I found the full set of Castle Falkenstein splat books and core book (no adventures, if any were ever published). Sat down and started messing with it. I like the magic system. Not really tuned to big, flashy spells, but just for laughs I tried to recreate Magic Missile with it. Best I could get was an arrow of fire, but it did the job. We did a little "fun run" when two of the group were away with an all-human team who accidentally killed the bad guy they needed to question to find where the main villain was lurking. (Their contact was killed by the villain, and the Sorcerous Order he belonged to believe the party did it.)
Role-playing high-society characters in the Steam Age is actually kind of hard. When language got free I often had to ask if the character really used "those exact words" just in case some ladies fainted at the salty language. Then a bad draw of the cards would happen and instead of the usual verbiage it was funny watching everyone try to find more appropriate words like "Drat!", "Zounds!", and "Dash it all!" Yeah, it was tough, but fun!
I think the funniest part was when one of the guys had difficulty getting into the Victorian swing. We had to remind that Victorians didn't use "thee" and "thou" and "thy". He had gotten a bit TOO proper, but his character evolved into a Shakespearean actor, so his vocal flubs sounded more "normal".
It was a fun evening, and I was wondering if anybody else here has ever played it.
