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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voneth" data-source="post: 165772" data-attributes="member: 1016">Steampunk is a misnomer to a degree.Originaly it was called punk more as a marketing tie in to ride on the coat tales of cyberpunk (which was about gleaming tech which contrasted with a dystopian future and those who  couldn't even fit in such a world)Steampunk was sort of a rebellion in the opposite sense as well as an attempt by Gibson not to be pigeon holed by the cyberpunk movement he started. Steampunk was old technology (or old theories of science that eventaly never worked out) set in a more upbeat setting.The term has sort of grown too generic and now includes any sort of old or disproven tech (sorry Telsa) that works in a sort of alternate reality from ours where the laws of physics are more forgiving. A lot of old Pulp and Jules Verne has ironicly been given this name.Some game resources  for Steampunk. Most are set in a variety of background worlds that may or not ingore the "punk" version of the game. As an aside, though the 1930s are considered late for steampunk there are two things to consider. 1.) Mark Twain, the writer of Huck Finn had died only 20 years earlier, so the Old West was not so Old then. 2.) Sure people had running water and electrcity ... in the big city. Lots of rural communities still sat squarely in the mid 1800s as far as tech went for decades to come.d20 Deadlands (gritty but also toungencheek)Dragon Issue 277 (great primer for generic DND steampunk)Castle Falkenstein (Victorian and very gentel, yet some fast paced adventures as well)Space 1889 (Edison joins the steampunk world and flys to Mars)Crimson Skies (a board game that brings steampunk to the 1930s through air pirates and a second Civil War that is not North/South based)Adventure! (Pulp heroes with skads of gadget rules)Iron Kingdom (cool pics of "steamjacks" but the publishers admit  the setting runs on a lite tech setting so as to not scare away the fantasy purists)And for upcoming projects, there is Forgotten Kingdoms which will have a 1800s, 1930s and another setting for steampunk and pulp.</blockquote>

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