Thread: Steampunk campaign
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March 13th, 2017, 17:13 #1
Steampunk campaign
I was thinking of starting a Steampunk campaign but didn't know where to start with Fantasy Grounds. Is Savage Worlds with the Deadlands setting a good place for wild west steampunk? Or would Pathfinder using Pure Steam work better?
MikeSee through the skies, far beyond our world tonight,
Hear the sounds of freedom ring, in a silent dream,
and a million miles away.
Reach for the stars, and live our lives forever free,
In our hearts for a thousand years, and a thousand lifetimes before.
And the dawn of a new day will rise, a light for us all. -Dragonforce
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March 13th, 2017, 20:41 #2
Those are two massively different systems. I would first decide what you want PF or SW then decide which steampunk world you want...There are plenty of options out there in every system that you can find your setting easily. Biggest thing, is do you want the bookkeeping and battle system in PF or the less bookkeeping more cinematic battle system of SW?
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March 13th, 2017, 21:08 #3See through the skies, far beyond our world tonight,
Hear the sounds of freedom ring, in a silent dream,
and a million miles away.
Reach for the stars, and live our lives forever free,
In our hearts for a thousand years, and a thousand lifetimes before.
And the dawn of a new day will rise, a light for us all. -Dragonforce
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March 13th, 2017, 22:10 #4
Deadlands is the weird west. It terms of comic books, it has much in common with Jonah Hex, the Sixth Gun, and Pariah, Missouri. It is a mashup of spaghetti westerns and something approaching the call of Cthulhu - some evil, mystical undercurrent. It does have plenty of steam-punkish technology items (gattling pistols, automatons, gyrocopters, jetpacks, a funky jet ski device), but it doesn't necessarily revel in them.
Anyhow, it has some of the trappings of Steampunk and a GM could bring them into focus, but most of these items are expensive and uncommon at best.
There are a couple of settings for Savage Worlds that probably are more recognized as having heavy Steampunk roots. Look for THE WIDENING GYRE and RUNEPUNK. I don't know if either of these is being ported to Fantasy Grounds.Various and sundry VTT publications that can be blamed entirely on me:
Maps of the American West for FG --- Black Hawk, Colorado --- Dodge City, Kansas --- Victorian Era Tokens - Set A --- Placerville, California --- Salida, Colorado --- Western Tokens Set A --- Western Tokens Set B
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March 13th, 2017, 22:24 #5See through the skies, far beyond our world tonight,
Hear the sounds of freedom ring, in a silent dream,
and a million miles away.
Reach for the stars, and live our lives forever free,
In our hearts for a thousand years, and a thousand lifetimes before.
And the dawn of a new day will rise, a light for us all. -Dragonforce
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March 13th, 2017, 22:32 #6
Another setting: The Kerberos Club
Various and sundry VTT publications that can be blamed entirely on me:
Maps of the American West for FG --- Black Hawk, Colorado --- Dodge City, Kansas --- Victorian Era Tokens - Set A --- Placerville, California --- Salida, Colorado --- Western Tokens Set A --- Western Tokens Set B
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March 14th, 2017, 07:55 #7
There is a Space 1889 offering over on Bundle of Holding.
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Space1889
Im in the process of adding a Ubiquity roll to MoreCore too.
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March 14th, 2017, 08:38 #8
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