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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hunter" data-source="post: 1201255" data-attributes="member: 14845">Great campaign setting! I really like the Steam-Tech idea!-(especially the airships).I am a big Comic Book fan of Chris Bachalo's artwork. He did a series titled SteamPunk-(It ran for 12 issues).In the letters page there was a contest for Steam Enhancements.Fans would write in describing their Steam Enhancements if they lived in the Steampunk world. Maybe this could give you some ideas for technology in your world:From Crispin Smith:I would be a shaggy Scottish highlander, with kilt and all. My lungs will have been replaced with the sacks of a bagpipe, the pipes of which are jutting from my back. I'd have a flask of moonshine and one of those little black dogs with a kilt of its own.From Joseph Crockett:A creature that gathers the brains of the recently deceased for addition to  an "archive" it carries within its body. This isn't an evil character, but rather one that wishes to preserve the memories of the dead. Those memories can be accessed by, but do not control, the creature.From Stephan Beg:A steam-powered lightbulb mounted in a socket affixed to the top of my head.To elaborate: this lightbulb works through the action of twin turbines, one on each side of my head in place of my ears. These turbines generate an electrical current as they rotate under gaseous pressure produced in my stomach (usually after I eat) and cybernetically channeled to my ear canals. Steam plumes from my "ears" and ultimately activates the bulb only in special circumstances, such as whenever I overthink, whenever I conceive a useful or ingenious idea, and whenever I become angry or lose my temper. Either way I make a good living as a lamp post. Just let this steam-powered lightbulb protruding from the top of my head(especially the imagery of steam madly blowing out from my ears, spinning metallic cylinders, and a bright light being turned on) serve as a metaphor for intellectual and emotional states that are popular and peculiar to the human condition.From Carl Philip Grunert:An old observatory dome over half of my head, the other half a whirling mess of cranks and gears. Out from the dome-half instead of an eye, a telescope would extend; and I'd be clothed in a cape of stars.From Stuart Bromwich:I would like a steam powered circulatory system, but only if there was a programmable regulator. This would allow me to slow my metabolism down and go into hibernation or tune out particularly boring parts of my life. It would also make getting to sleep easier.From Tom (aka MI2crimson):If I lived in the twisted world of Steampunk, I would stop by the offices of Absinthe and Medik and have'em slap on a big honkin' Steam-Enhanced Jaw! Yeah, that's right! A Steam-Enhanced Jaw. Stainless steel that can bite through anything, more powerful than a locomotive.Winner of contest:Alex Neilson:Rigga's Mekanoautonomic Wound-weaver.This largish organomekanical spider is connected to its host via an ichor-dripping metallic hose. A network of microscopic rupture sensors spreads out from the linkage point. When a wound is detected, the spider skitters across the host's body to seal the wound with strands of pinkish thread.Maybe this example along with GURPS Steampunk and Stemtech can get your outside world populated with interesting characters.~H</blockquote>

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