Ideas for victorian campaign needed.

[Abdomens]

(My first thread, so be gent.. whatever)

I’m planning to run a campaign set in late 19. century. The setting will be much like the graphic novel, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. It will be the Victorian Age, but with a twist, i.e. air-pirates, submarines, Dracula, Jekyll/Hyde, etc.
The PC will be hired by the British Government, sent out to investigate strange happenings in the British Empire.
I think that we’ll be using the D20 Modern rules for most. Of course barring the too modern equipment and maybe some of the skills (Computer Use, Drive, Pilot).

Right now I’m searching for ideas or if anybody has seen a D20 product that could be useful…

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I did a web search. I came up with The Victorian Web & The Victorian Era. Also A Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe might be up your alley. I hope this helps.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Here's a links section I threw together for the section of my site that would be devoted to my Victorian campaign. I'm in the process of putting the site together, but here's a peek. Visual aids (i.e. old pictures to show off) help a lot, I think. I get enjoyment out of using them.

Ahh, the Victorian time. I love it.

http://www.geocities.com/dragonfire0129/ResurrectionCity/links.html

 

[Turanil]

WotC will release "d20 Past" in the middle of 2005. This supplement is for using d20 Modern in precedent centuries. I guess it wouldbe useful for your campaign.

 

[Abdomens]

Here's a links section I threw together for the section of my site that would be devoted to my Victorian campaign. I'm in the process of putting the site together, but here's a peek. Visual aids (i.e. old pictures to show off) help a lot, I think. I get enjoyment out of using them.

Thanks a lot for the links, A.D. Gable.
I think, it will really help me create the right mood.

 

[ragboy]

(My first thread, so be gent.. whatever)

I’m planning to run a campaign set in late 19. century. The setting will be much like the graphic novel, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. It will be the Victorian Age, but with a twist, i.e. air-pirates, submarines, Dracula, Jekyll/Hyde, etc.
The PC will be hired by the British Government, sent out to investigate strange happenings in the British Empire.
I think that we’ll be using the D20 Modern rules for most. Of course barring the too modern equipment and maybe some of the skills (Computer Use, Drive, Pilot).

Right now I’m searching for ideas or if anybody has seen a D20 product that could be useful…

Crud. I thought I posted last night, but I guess I was hallucinating...

One of the best inspirations, game-wise, that I used for my Victorian fantasy/future campaign was a game called Forgotten Futures. It's free and available here:

http://www.forgottenfutures.com/

The game rules are pretty simple, but the richness of the campaign materials will blow you away. Each 'campaign book' is derived from scientific romances of the late 19th and early 20th century (Rudyard Kipling, George Griffith, Arthur Conan Doyle, etc). Each setting contains a campaign book and an adventure book both just jam-packed with ideas, scenarios and other stuff for the pillaging.

Anyway. Highly recommended.

 

[Wombat]

Well, most of the really good links have been listed, but here are a couple of more:

Steampunk: Victorian Adventures in a Past That Wasn't --

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9094/STEAM2.html

Another Shirt Ruined: the official Amelia Peabody site!

http://www.barbaramichaels.com/amelia/index.html

And...

City of Shadows: A Gothic Tour of Victorian London

http://cityofshadows.stegenga.net/

 

[Stormborn]

Non d20 resources

GURPS books are always great resources for Flavor, even if you don't play with those rules. In fact the supplements tend to be more flavor than crunch anyway.
Check out GURPS Steampunk and Steamtech.
Also look into Space:1889

 

[Arrgh! Mark!]

Rider Haggard: Group of adventurers go into darkest africa and find a civilisation of half-caste cannibals led by an immortal white woman. She tries to turn them to the dark side but their rampant whiteness denies her. Remember phallic symbols.

Dracula.

Even Heart of Darkness - Group of adventurers goes into darkest africa and finds nutball white man. Adventurers go nuts themselves.

Lots of Penetrating Continents and finding lost civilisations and shooting them.

Cannibals everywhere! especially where there are none.

Or you could go real world style. Penetrate to the heart of Australia, fail to find an inland sea, die of starvation and thirst. Like every australian explorer ever did.


Vice versa, go to the middle of australia and find a civilisation of half-white cannibals. Sounds familiar somehow. Ahh well.

Conan Doyle and his lost world comes to mind.

There's many others. Some ideas and books to read for you

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Masque of the Red Death d20 is now out. That could be a base for what you want to do.