06-05-2009, 05:10 PM | #11 | |
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: The Kingdom of Insignificance
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Re: Steampunk Elves!
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06-06-2009, 01:01 AM | #12 |
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Texas
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Re: Steampunk Elves!
Sounds a bit like the Fuzion setting, Victoriana.
And forum regular Tectuctitlay already has an excellent GURPS conversion in PDF :-) |
06-06-2009, 02:37 PM | #13 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: The Enchanted Land-O-Cheese
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Re: Steampunk Elves!
Thanks for the feedback, everybody.
The first few sessions of this campaign have been a little rudderless as I've been trying to feel my way around and establish background, but I think I've finally got some traction. As I said, my wife's character, Stella, is young woman studying engineering at a university. She originally came from a mining community in the province of Franklin, and so she's using her interest in clockwork automata to try to invent a mechanical beetle that can test air quality in mines. I've been letting her put together the prototype bit by bit. A handsome young man named Tad, who is the captain of the school's rowing team, has been courting her. He delighted Stella, (and scandalized Stella's landlady) by picking her up for a dance in a steam automobile. On their latest date, he took her to an automobile race he had entered. Shortly before the race started, however, a group of toughs waylaid Tad and beat him up, breaking his arm and rendering him unable to drive; forcing Stella to take his place. It was a fun, exciting race and my wife enjoyed my descriptions of the other cars. After the race, Stella meets Tad's father, an influential senator, and some of his father's friends, including a mysterious elvish count from Bohemia. These men are part of a cabal, which will become important later. The Count takes an interest in Stella and persuades her to accept first a ride back to town, then dinner at a restaurant, and then... Well, this is a family board so we'll just leave it to say that Tad is going to be really annoyed. |
06-06-2009, 03:34 PM | #14 |
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Cumberland, ME
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Re: Steampunk Elves!
Man, I wish I had half as much creativity as you do. That sounds like great stuff.
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06-08-2009, 10:58 AM | #15 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Re: Steampunk Elves!
For some reason, I'm seeing the dwarves (in the UK, at least) as having Scottish accents, rather than Welsh. Maybe it's the engineering stereotype. Knockers are Cornish, I'm not sure what the actual Scottish equivalent would have been.
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06-08-2009, 11:08 AM | #16 |
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: On the road again...
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Re: Steampunk Elves!
Bah. The more civilized Dwarves should clearly speak with upper-crust Oxford accents, while the wild Elves should have Irish accents. Give the Gnomes and Hobbits... sorry, Halflings Cornish accents, and make Goblins use ridiculous French accents ("Fetchez la vouche!") for the sheer Whiskey Tango Foxtrot moments. Humans? They're Norse.
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06-08-2009, 11:30 AM | #17 | |
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Of course, given that the House of Windsor is of German extraction, maybe that's a pointer to the proper accent for Elves. |
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