Steampunksetting out there?

By DarthDude, in Genesys

Is there a Steampunk/victorian age setting out there besides FFGs "Sovereigns of Steam"?

I've been working on a quasi-steampunk setting (actually ancient world with some steam tech and sorcery mixed in) called Elemental Steam , but I'm a long ways off from having it ready for the Foundry.

Abney Park had an Airship Pirates RPG released through Cubicle 7. I've gotta be like the only guy in my state who bought it. Setting is neat, if a bit wonky, and is basically just an ad for the band. The system is kinda unique, being a weird redux of the Heresy System from Victoriana, but lends itself pretty well to the setting.

The basic gist of the Setting is that someone screwed up the timeline, and now the vast majority of humanity lives locked away in NeoVictorian Change Cage Cities, where technology is artificially frozen at the Victorian era, and the teaming masses live in toil under a fascist regime lead by Emperor Victor Hypocrates III. Outside these cities live the Free Folk: The NeoBedouin, a nomadic people who roam the ground and regularly deal with super-predators and pirate raids, and the SkyFolk, who live in floating platforms (Think Columbia from Bioshock Infinite, with less racism) or cities built into mountains, such as High Tortuga. The Imperial Navy is set on destroying those who do not live in the Change Cage Cities, and players usually have to evade them whilst pulling daring heists and generally causing mayhem. The existence of two different Chrononautilus allow for time travel shenanigans as well, though there's a very good chance the players will just wind up dead if they use one (as doing so requires them to get drunk and then pilot their way out of a storm, if they got their calculations correct and didn't emerge in space).

http://airshippirates.abneypark.com/

Edited by AlanTheBothersome
Wonky grammar.
7 hours ago, Sturn said:

I've been working on a quasi-steampunk setting (actually ancient world with some steam tech and sorcery mixed in) called Elemental Steam , but I'm a long ways off from having it ready for the Foundry.

Looking forward! 😊

Edited by DarthDude

Thinking about it, I realized I'm more fond of diesel punk than steam punk.

What is diesel punk ? Settings like Mad Max ?

2 minutes ago, WolfRider said:

What is diesel punk ? Settings like Mad Max ?

If steam punk uses visuals and technology based on the late 1800s, diesel punk is more in the 1920s-1950s inspired. A lot of the alt history WW2 era settings, film noir, old pulp magazines and so forth fall into diesel punk.

Anyone have a term for ancient world steampunk? Steampunk means steam-era technology replicating near modern technology. What about ancient-middle ages technology replicating steam-era?

54 minutes ago, Sturn said:

Anyone have a term for ancient world steampunk? Steampunk means steam-era technology replicating near modern technology. What about ancient-middle ages technology replicating steam-era?

I know clock punk refers to settings which use pre-industrial revolution era technology, akin to Da Vinci's works, and it often crops up in medieval fantasy and the like. That's as closest as I've seen to what you're talking about.

1 hour ago, Sturn said:

Anyone have a term for ancient world steampunk? Steampunk means steam-era technology replicating near modern technology. What about ancient-middle ages technology replicating steam-era?

I'd call it Aeolipile Punk as ancient greek already knew about steam technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile :D

On 12/22/2019 at 5:09 PM, Swordbreaker said:

If steam punk uses visuals and technology based on the late 1800s, diesel punk is more in the 1920s-1950s inspired. A lot of the alt history WW2 era settings, film noir, old pulp magazines and so forth fall into diesel punk.

Thanks. So when I played Mage Noir it was a diesel punk setting for Mage the awakening. 😉

I found this site called Genesys Realms a while ago that has a steampunk setting and content...