It's Steam Punk. It's simple. It includes theatrical and complete combat rules, interesting and quick character creation, and very theme appropriate and unique rules around Victorian "form". It is more storytelling theatrics and 0 tactical but it still has a minimum amount of crunch that I enjoy. I also enjoy the rule that you line up against your foes and take on one a time. Tactically this makes little sense but it is SO much more theatrical! Perfect for the type of game this is. Makes me want to go around saying "Jolly Good!" and "Good show, dear chap!" After reading through it, I certainly want to try it out!

This book does NOT include a much world background though. It supposes using revisionist earth which can be a sandbox and gives you a sample starting scenario but a little advice on working this out would have been great.

If this works out successfully in a real session, I'll be back to give my review 5 stars and an update.

This is the third iteration of Simon Burley's "Code of" RPG System, and it is even more refined than the previous two. What you have here is a very open, flexible system with just enough structure to get a group of people playing quickly, but with enough depth to it to provide plenty of interest for more than just a handful of pick up sessions. The steampunk genre is a great fit for this system, and I hope to see more iterations of this system to come.