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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with
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Superman as punk because it is about hope is a real thing right now. -
Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with
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Solarpunk is probably the most genuinely punk of the punkpunks since cyberpunk. Punk doesn’t mean pessimistic, it means... -
Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Burnside's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
I don't understand why people make an issue of this one. Why is this assumed to be an in-game term? It's a rules term. People aren't...
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
D&D has never been "medieval fantasy", so it can scarcely "no longer apply", I would argue. I mean, what setting is that true in...
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Ralif Redhammer's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
A steampunk character could fit into D&D just fine. But so could a Conan-esque barbarian, a snarky Locke Lamora-style rogue from...
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
You mean the story where Georgian hobbits meet dark age horse lords and Arthurian knights led by a descendent of magitech Atlantis?
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Cap'n Kobold's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
I believe those are more leaning into the vibe of "punk" being about rebellion against the establishment. I think at the time when the...
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Willie the Duck's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
Others have discussed the appropriateness of the term steampunk. Others have discussed medieval. I am going to address the 'no longer'...
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
A bit of a tangent here, but I would argue there’s a reverse-Clarke’s Law going on with D&D’s magic. It is sufficiently understood so as...
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
D&D is pretty much its own genre and its own artistic style/vibe at this point. And that isn't a dig. It is cool that it has an identity.
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
Modrons aren't steampunk.
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
"Steampunk" is a specific genre, with specific elements that make it what it is. No, D&D is not Steampunk. Some of the art in Von...
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
Not all speculative fiction involving anachronistic technologies in historical periods is steampunk. Steampunk pretty specifically...
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
Steampunk is an aesthetic borne out of retro-futuristic technology during the Victorian era. As Dungeons & Dragons is by no means...
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Levistus's_Leviathan reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
It isn't medieval but it is definitely not steampunk. Do words no longer have meaning?