D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll)

[Crimson Longinus]

To be fair, most folks can’t tell their Victorian from their Edwardian from their turn of the century American, etc. It’s all just “post-industrial old-timey.” And most folks treat “steampunk” as meaning scifi/fantasy with a post-industrial old-timey aesthetic.

Which perhaps is a level of conflation that is fine in a fictional context. But I feel these days in D&D anything pre-WWII gets conflated into "olden times" and thrown in the mix without rhyme or reason.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Which perhaps is a level of conflation that is fine in a fictional context. But I feel these days in D&D anything pre-WWII gets conflated into "olden times" and thrown in the mix without rhyme or reason.

The wheelchair is post-WW2, in design and technology required to make it.

And it bothers me less than the impractical lack of trousers in early D&D.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I literally live in Victoria, BC

That’s in America, right?

I have a friend who is a hardcore steampunk cosplayer.

Anyway the reason you should use the correct labels is because if you actually want to run a medieval or steampunk D&D campaign, people won’t know what you mean.

Also, steampunk enthusiasts and medievalists are offended.

 

[TiQuinn]

That’s in America, right?

I have a friend who is a hardcore steampunk cosplayer.

Anyway the reason you should use the correct labels is because if you actually want to run a medieval or steampunk D&D campaign, people won’t know what you mean.

Certain people may not know what he means. I think you’re being a bit dogmatic in pinning down what is and is not the steampunk aesthetic, particularly when it comes to accurately defining what is Victorian vs Edwardian or Late Georgian.

 

[Charlaquin]

That’s in America, right?

Canada

 

[Laurefindel]

Canada

Which is in America. Just not in the United States

 

[Cadence]

That outfit is early 20th century, not late 19th (he has no hat!).

Since Victoria died 22 Jan 1901 her era does definitionally get a teeny-tiny bit of the 20th century.

Anyway, I was thinking that it wasn't like a light was switched on and everything changed at once, and was trying to see what the slide from Victorian to Edwardian was like. Came across this in terms of the changeover from 1890-1914:

Brief Timeline of the Late Victorian and Edwardian Eras

1890s Women’s clothing becomes less voluminous, lawn tennis takes place of croquet as means of meeting opposite sex, bicycle becomes fashionable. Agricultural depression as cheaper frozen meat from…

www.edwardianpromenade.com

 

[Charlaquin]

Which is in America. Just not in the United States

It’s part of the continent North America, but people don’t generally refer to that as just “America,” whereas the United States of America does often get referred to that way.

 

[Cadence]

It’s part of the continent North America, but people don’t generally refer to that as just “America,” whereas the United States of America does often get referred to that way.

Is "the Americas" more common than just America if one wanted to go beyond the US and didn't want to specify North, South or maybe Central? Or does that just identify me as being a USAian?

 

[Tonguez]

Is "the Americas" more common than just America if one wanted to go beyond the US and didn't want to specify North, South or maybe Central? Or does that just identify me as being a USAian?

I for one have never use 'The Americas' and instead use America to mean both North and Central America. But South America gets its own tag (specifically Chile, Brazil, Argentina)

Strangely enough Americans refers specifically to USAians - so North America is occupied by Canadians, Mexicans and Americanos