Resources for Victorian/Steampunk game?

[Adina]

As the title says..

I may soon be running a high adventure steampunk game using GURPS 4E.

More specifically what Pyramid issues would be helpful?

Are there any non-SJG's works that could be useful?


Jeff

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by jmurrell

As the title says..

I may soon be running a high adventure steampunk game using GURPS 4E.

More specifically what Pyramid issues would be helpful?

Are there any non-SJG's works that could be useful?

Marcus Rowland's Forgotten Futures has a huge amount of period literary material attached to its various modules.

Bill Stoddard

[quarkstomper]

The Castle Falkenstein suppliment "Comme Il Faut" is useful for any type of Victorian campaign. It has a lot of useful stuff about society in the Victorian Era.

Castle Falkenstein is a fun setting, but might have too much of a "kitchen sink" approach. As a friend of mine commented about another R. Talsorian game back in the '80s, "Some of us like our Cyberpunk without the twist of Elf." Still, it has some useful stuff in it, such as "Comme Il Faut", and "The Steam Age", a sourcebook for steampunk machines.

Space 1889 is also a good setting with material you can use if your campaign is going to venture out into the lumiferous aether.

[aesir23]

Since Bill was too modest to mention it himself, I'll go ahead and recommend the 3e GURPS Steampunk, just in case you're not familiar with it. Even if you ignore all the 3e crunch, it's still a good resource.

Pyramid volume 3 issue 39 is dedicated to Steampunk. If you have GURPS Action, the Pulp Action advice in issue 3.08 may also be useful to you, there's a lot of overlap between Victorian adventure fiction and early 20th century pulp fiction.

I don't have the recent Weird Science Pyramid issue (no budget for game books while I'm an unpaid volunteer), but it seems like it might be quite useful for Steampunk.

If you're interested in non-gaming resources, I also recommend the Steampunk short-story collections edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Steampunk and Steampunk II), as well as the Extraordinary Engines Anthology. Many great short stories, set in many great Steampunk worlds. I recommend going with short story anthologies because you can see several different approaches to the genre in a relatively short period of time.

[dcarson]

http://www.victorianweb.org/ has lots of reference material for the real Victorian era.

[Adina]

Originally Posted by whswhs

Marcus Rowland's Forgotten Futures has a huge amount of period literary material attached to its various modules.

Bill Stoddard

I was not familiar with this, there is indeed a huge amount of material.

Originally Posted by aesir23

Since Bill was too modest to mention it himself, I'll go ahead and recommend the 3e GURPS Steampunk, just in case you're not familiar with it. Even if you ignore all the 3e crunch, it's still a good resource.

I have this already.

Pyramid volume 3 issue 39 is dedicated to Steampunk. If you have GURPS Action, the Pulp Action advice in issue 3.08 may also be useful to you, there's a lot of overlap between Victorian adventure fiction and early 20th century pulp fiction.

I do have Action so I will look at these two.

I don't have the recent Weird Science Pyramid issue (no budget for game books while I'm an unpaid volunteer), but it seems like it might be quite useful for Steampunk.

Anyone who does have this care to comment? how much of it would work for the Victorian era?

Originally Posted by quarkstomper

The Castle Falkenstein suppliment "Comme Il Faut" is useful for any type of Victorian campaign. It has a lot of useful stuff about society in the Victorian Era.

Is this legally available for download anywhere?

Castle Falkenstein is a fun setting, but might have too much of a "kitchen sink" approach. As a friend of mine commented about another R. Talsorian game back in the '80s, "Some of us like our Cyberpunk without the twist of Elf." Still, it has some useful stuff in it, such as "Comme Il Faut", and "The Steam Age", a sourcebook for steampunk machines.

I have the GURPS version but its too magical for this campaign.

Thanks all, lots of material to look at.

Jeff

[Phil Masters]

Originally Posted by jmurrell

Is this legally available for download anywhere?

DriveThruRPG carry it.