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2007-07-19, 04:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Steampunk Books?
I just finished watching Howl's Moving Castle and am suddenly very interested in a steampunk style setting. I know Ebberon is meant to be sort of semi-steampunk but I don't know of any other settings.
Does anyone know of any steampunk style setting books?Dub Club in the Playground
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Try Etherscope and its expansions. It's built a bit like d20 Modern, but it's a good system.
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Similar topic: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48542
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Really? I thought it was a low-magic - wait, no, that's Iron Heroes.
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2007-07-19, 10:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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People have already suggested Etherscope and Iron Kingdoms
For general information (and the basis of 4 settings) GURPS: Steampunk is useful.
Legends & Lairs: Sorcery and Steam from Fantasy Flight Games is a useful D&D steampunk resource, but it does not contain any specific settings.
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While not completely fleshed out, Dragon 352 had stuff for a Bas-Lag setting. (the world in the books Perdido Street Station, The Scar, and Iron Council).
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2007-07-19, 10:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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There's also OGL Steampunk, by Mongoose. Never played it, but it looked fairly interesting when I flipped through it once.
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there's now a d20 version of deadlands; it's weird west, which is pretty steampunk.
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I fail to see how Iron Kingdoms is different enough from other steampunk to warrant its own subgenre.
Iron Kingdoms is a good setting so long as you don't mind a few things.
-Khador is fantasy USSR. Red Army, cossacks, industrial behemoth, the works.
-Cygnar is "t3h g00d g13s"
-Menoth (a god) has a holy symbol, the Menofix, it's a cross. Menites periodically menofix (see: crucify) people on Menofixes (crosses).
-A gun that deals damage equal to a good composite longbow costs as much, but the ammo costs about 120 times more.
The guns & ammo things is easily fixed, it's just that the ammo costs are ridiculous, scale it down and that's one thing off the list. You'll have to deal with everything else, but if it doesn't bother you, it's a nice little world.
*snip* maybe I shouldn't say that, Just not to my taste.Last edited by Townopolis; 2007-07-20 at 02:49 AM. Reason: Figure I probably shouldn't condemn things just 'cause I dislike them.
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To each his own.
But then again, I played DBA, DBM, Spearhead, and a little Warhammer before I picked up the Warmachine book, so maybe my views are colored as well.Last edited by Townopolis; 2007-07-20 at 02:51 AM. Reason: ratcheting down the unnecessary argument.
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If you just need flavor stuff or otherwise don't care about non-d20 sources, there's probably a GURPS Steampunk. There's like a GURPS everything.