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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5203988" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>I wasn't saying that "Weird Westerns" = Steampunk, just that they involve the same chronological period and have overlapping tech, and as such, elements of such stories would not be out of place in a Steampunk campaign. And given the "positive" worldview of America in general at the time, its not inconceivable that the America of that world might be a bit more utopian than the Europe of the same time frame. It was, after all, one of the main differences between the RW American West and Europe of that time.</p><p></p><p>In addition, because of the overlap, it would also make for an easy alteration to make the Weird West more steampunk in nature. After all, you had the great expansion of the American railroad system with deplorable treatment of the black slave and Chinese workers that is no less dark than the streets of London. And its not like the Old west was all tiny towns- there's nothing stopping you from having a Weird West/Steampunk fusion campaign or story arc taking place in St. Louis, KC or San Francisco, for instance.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps Jesse James, dissatisfied with the Gatling Gun, goes to Colorado Springs to kidnap Nicola Tesla in order to get himself a Lightning Gun and some mechanical resonators to bust open bank vaults. (Or, as per <em>The Prestige</em>, a teleporter?)</p><p></p><p>Or what about some of those western boom towns? I could easily imagine a steampunk take on Cybermen, for instance, trying to take out a mining village during the 1849 California Gold Rush...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 5203988, member: 19675"] I wasn't saying that "Weird Westerns" = Steampunk, just that they involve the same chronological period and have overlapping tech, and as such, elements of such stories would not be out of place in a Steampunk campaign. And given the "positive" worldview of America in general at the time, its not inconceivable that the America of that world might be a bit more utopian than the Europe of the same time frame. It was, after all, one of the main differences between the RW American West and Europe of that time. In addition, because of the overlap, it would also make for an easy alteration to make the Weird West more steampunk in nature. After all, you had the great expansion of the American railroad system with deplorable treatment of the black slave and Chinese workers that is no less dark than the streets of London. And its not like the Old west was all tiny towns- there's nothing stopping you from having a Weird West/Steampunk fusion campaign or story arc taking place in St. Louis, KC or San Francisco, for instance. Perhaps Jesse James, dissatisfied with the Gatling Gun, goes to Colorado Springs to kidnap Nicola Tesla in order to get himself a Lightning Gun and some mechanical resonators to bust open bank vaults. (Or, as per [I]The Prestige[/I], a teleporter?) Or what about some of those western boom towns? I could easily imagine a steampunk take on Cybermen, for instance, trying to take out a mining village during the 1849 California Gold Rush... [/QUOTE]
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