A Much Belated Runepunk Review

I finally had the chance to pick a copy of Runepunk from Reality Blurs and its pretty good. In case you don’t know they’re the folks who gave us such Savage greats as Realms of Cthulhu and the upcoming Agents of Oblivion.
Runepunk keeps the Savage Worlds tradition of off beat settings. It’s unique but still brings several familiar themes into a setting that’s fun to play. So what is it? It’s an odd mix of dark fantasy, post apocalypse, steampunk and pulp. The city at the center of this hodgepodge is Scatterpoint. There’s a nice section of the setting and the history of Scatterpoint.
You’ve got all sorts of interesting races you can play. There’s the usual humans but you also some fairly nifty races. There’s the rat-like Ferren, the steampunkish man-machine Overwrought, the half-demon Malakar and the gothy Andari. Of course, there are humans but do I really need to mention them.
It’s pretty easy to pull in just about anything your own demented imagination can drag up into the universe of Runepunk. Might I suggest kit bashing Realms of Cthulhlu with Runepunk. Numerous adventures from various genres can be tweaked to fit into the setting. Runepunk is really good if you want to run a game but you have absolutely no idea what you want to do.
On the crunchy side, It’s got some nice Edges and Arcane Backgrounds. They capture the feel of the Runepunk setting and like any good Savage Worlds book the crunchy bits can be easily exported to whatever setting happens to catch your fancy at the moment. Did I mention some cool Weird Science and Arcane Backgrounds? Of course, those are there too.
Now, I know why this a popular Savage Worlds setting. It was a good buy and I wish I had picked it up earlier.