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Cakebread & Walton is a British games company that creates and publishes tabletop games.Best known for its Clockwork & Chivalry, Renaissance System and Abney Park's Airship Pirates games, they also offer titles covering a range of licensed and self-developed properties.
A clockwork mechanism is often powered by a clockwork motor [4] consisting of a mainspring, a spiral torsion spring of metal ribbon. Energy is stored in the mainspring manually by winding it up, turning a key attached to a ratchet which twists the mainspring tighter. Then the force of the mainspring turns the clockwork gears, until the stored ...
In Venice, the musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, with the help of Milady de Winter, steal airship schematics made by Leonardo da Vinci.However, they are betrayed by Milady, who incapacitates them and sells the blueprints to the Duke of Buckingham.
[1]: 430 Cakebread has worked on numerous games and systems including Clockwork & Chivalry, Airship Pirates, Dark Streets, the Renaissance d100 rules, Pirates & Dragons and the popular One Dice rules. [2] Cakebread has also written the novel The Alchemist's Revenge (2013), [3] and was the lead author of the mystery novel The Morecambe Medium ...
In September 2019, after the announcement of bankruptcy by Clockwork Publishing earlier that year, Ulisses North America announced that it had acquired the rights to Space: 1889. Under license in December 2023, Strange Owl Games successfully crowdfunded Space: 1889 After , which is set ten years after 1899 and has two different sets of rules ...
Clockpunk, similar to steampunk, reimagines the Early Modern Period (16th–18th century) to include retro-futuristic technology, often portraying Renaissance-era science and technology based on clockwork, gears, and Da Vincian machinery designs. [25] Such designs are in the vein of Mainspring by Jay Lake, [26] and Whitechapel Gods by S. M ...
Zeppelin "L 30" seen from the front Right gondola of Zeppelin "L 30". Zeppelin "L 30" (factory number "LZ 62") was the first R-class "Super Zeppelin" of the German Empire.It was the most successful airship of the First World War with 31 reconnaissance flights and 10 bombing runs carrying a total of 23,305 kg of bombs, [1] with the first ones targeting England, and the four final raids ...
Trevor Graham Baylis CBE (13 May 1937 – 5 March 2018) was an English inventor best known for the wind-up radio.The radio, instead of relying on batteries or external electrical source, is powered by the user winding a crank.