9/19/2023 0 Comments Steam punk wars list![]() ![]() After much consideration I left off Orrorsh, part of the TORG line because the brief Victorian Empire mention feels like window dressing. For example both Fringeworthy and GURPS Alternate Earths present secondary materials for Steampunk or Victorian settings, but they’re a fragment. So if one module offers some steampunk bits, I’ve left it off the list. I’ve focused on core game lines or supplements offering a significant shift or change to the setting. Something like Children of the Sun’s Dieselpunk or Eberron’s background material owe a debt to the style. Reasonable persons may disagree about this categorization. Games which borrow or rework the images and concepts of Steampunk. Steampunk-esque: The most subjective of the definitions. ![]() Steampunk: Games which call themselves steampunk and reference the ideas and aesthetics of it. This includes games which focus on the imagery and society, but perhaps without the technology. Unhallowed Metropolis’ Neo-Victorian setting). Also where a game explicitly embraces the culture despite not being of the period or place (i.e. Alternately referencing the British Colonial Experience. Victoriana: Material set in the Victorian period and in England or greater Europe. I decided to consider things in three categories: If it had a political or social content at the start, that’s been streamlined away in favor of “the look.” Like other subjective genre elements it has a continuum, with some books, movies, games and TV shows embracing it fully and others just throwing in some knobs and goggles. I think of it generally as a set of design and aesthetic elements - generally recognizable symbols. There’s a good deal of debate about what constitutes Steampunk - resulting in many argument panels at various conventions. Victoriana’s reasonably easy to spot, but Steampunk offers more of a challenge. I could have presented them individually, but the lists would overlap heavily. Because these two concepts have been tied closely, I opted to link them for this list. I focus on tabletop games, though many video games could easily fall into this category (the classics Thief: The Dark Project, Arcanum and Final Fantasy VI). This list begins to trace the history and development of Victoriana and Steampunk RPGs. ![]()
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