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<blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5197218" data-attributes="member: 6957">I am going to suggest a bunch of things that aren't directly Steampunk, but that give a feel.To get a feel for a steampunk setting, though without any weird tech, the excellent movie The Man Who Would Be King.Documentaries about WWI - there is a level of nihilism that is often neglected in steampunk games. (And I am as guilty of that as anyone - my tastes run toward the Vernesean. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) An awful lot of Steampunk builds on a framework analogous to WWI.The Island of Doctor Moreau.The silent film Metropolis is in some ways the quintessential steampunk movie - decades before the term is coined. I cannot recommend it enough. (And a newly restored version is nearing completion - with the twenty minutes or so that have been missing for eighty years. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )The not all that good Lionsgate movie of War of the Worlds - it makes an attempt to be true to the period.For magical Steampunk - the novel Whitechapel Gods is nice and grim.And now it is bed time, I have been misspelling words all over the place.The Auld Grump</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheAuldGrump, post: 5197218, member: 6957"] I am going to suggest a bunch of things that aren't directly Steampunk, but that give a feel. To get a feel for a steampunk setting, though without any weird tech, the excellent movie The Man Who Would Be King. Documentaries about WWI - there is a level of nihilism that is often neglected in steampunk games. (And I am as guilty of that as anyone - my tastes run toward the Vernesean. :) ) An awful lot of Steampunk builds on a framework analogous to WWI. The Island of Doctor Moreau. The silent film Metropolis is in some ways the quintessential steampunk movie - decades before the term is coined. I cannot recommend it enough. (And a newly restored version is nearing completion - with the twenty minutes or so that have been missing for eighty years. :) ) The not all that good Lionsgate movie of War of the Worlds - it makes an attempt to be true to the period. For magical Steampunk - the novel Whitechapel Gods is nice and grim. And now it is bed time, I have been misspelling words all over the place. The Auld Grump [/QUOTE]

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