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<blockquote data-quote="DragoonLance" data-source="post: 5149636" data-attributes="member: 76135">I enjoy steampunk, but I agree with Insight that it needs to be carefully thought out in what it changes.&nbsp; One of the most well known steampunk settings is Iron Kingdoms, and they IMO are a bad example, due to the overabundance of firearms, specifically machine guns and cannon that would radically alter the state of warfare and the use of magic in a fantasy world.&nbsp; Something along the lines of Eberron's house Cannith that use steampower instead of elementals (or using elementals to make steam engines that don't need refueling) could work without affecting the PCs too much, especially if the engines are too large and bulky for anything smaller than a train or ship.While I love some of the quirky techno-magical stuff from FF and Eberron, once you have mass transit it makes a POL setting much more implausable unless you have a Wild West idea in mind...which could actually work nicely with a heroic tier West Marches kind of plot.&nbsp; The PCs could do &quot;explore the frontier&quot; missions at low levels, then help defend and/or keep the peace in their new towns/settlements.&nbsp; It's something I've been thinking of running for a group of gamer friends that love board games like Settlers of Catan. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="DragoonLance, post: 5149636, member: 76135"] I enjoy steampunk, but I agree with Insight that it needs to be carefully thought out in what it changes. One of the most well known steampunk settings is Iron Kingdoms, and they IMO are a bad example, due to the overabundance of firearms, specifically machine guns and cannon that would radically alter the state of warfare and the use of magic in a fantasy world. Something along the lines of Eberron's house Cannith that use steampower instead of elementals (or using elementals to make steam engines that don't need refueling) could work without affecting the PCs too much, especially if the engines are too large and bulky for anything smaller than a train or ship. While I love some of the quirky techno-magical stuff from FF and Eberron, once you have mass transit it makes a POL setting much more implausable unless you have a Wild West idea in mind...which could actually work nicely with a heroic tier West Marches kind of plot. The PCs could do "explore the frontier" missions at low levels, then help defend and/or keep the peace in their new towns/settlements. It's something I've been thinking of running for a group of gamer friends that love board games like Settlers of Catan. ;) [/QUOTE]

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