A Steampunk Request for Suggestions Thread

[Reynard]

oh man, if you ever track down the original SNES version or the PS1 version (which is the same, but ads some animated cutscenes) - it's amazingly large storytelling given the tech constraints of the time.

I don't like JRPGs as a rule, though recently I bought Octopath Traveler 2 based on how much Mortismal Gaming loved it (and I have pretty much never disagreed with with his takes). I have not yet loaded it up. And I guess Expedition 33 is technically a JRPG, and I mean to get to that.

 

[djotaku]

I don't like JRPGs as a rule, though recently I bought Octopath Traveler 2 based on how much Mortismal Gaming loved it (and I have pretty much never disagreed with with his takes). I have not yet loaded it up. And I guess Expedition 33 is technically a JRPG, and I mean to get to that.

That is fair. To me it's the apex of the series. But that doesn't mean it's for you if you don't like jrpgs.

 

[coyote6]

Pinnacle has their Rippers setting for Savage Worlds; IIRC, it's steampunk horror. Deadlands also has some steampunk flavor, with the weird science stuff.

Castle Falkenstein is a fairly early steampunk RPG, AFAIK - released in 1994. It's available in PDF and POD via DriveThruRPG. Also, there was a GURPS Falkenstein.

Steve Jackson Games also has GURPS Steampunk books/pdfs for both 3e and 4e.

Space: 1889 might be the OG "steampunk" RPG, maybe? It was published in 1989. There have been many versions, using at least five different systems: the original system from 1989 (unique, AFAIK), a Ubiquity engine version, a Savage Worlds version (subtitled Red Sands), a D&D 5e version, and a system called Empyrean.

 

[jdrakeh]

City of Clocks by Battlefield Press might be of use. It's a systemless setting book, so you can use it with 5e or any other edition of D&D you choose.