GURPS Classic: Steampunk

✍ Scribed by William H. Stoddard

• Publisher: Steve Jackson Games Incorporated
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 147
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/steampunk/

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The Steampunk Genre
Science and Technology
Alternative Technology
Charles Babbage
Ada Byron
Weird Science
Other Eminent Victorians
Other Places and Times
Other Ages of Steam
Society
Incorporating Magic?
Other Variant TLs
2. The Spirit of the Age
Science
What If?
Geography and Exploration
What If?
Warfare
Land Warfare
What If?
Naval Warfare
What If?
Aerial Warfare
Organizations
What If?
Politics
Representative Government
What If?
The Depth of the Past
Primitive Man
Social Classes and Daily Life
Victorian Safety Net
What If?
The World of Ideas
Separate Spheres
The Scandalous Victorians
What If?
Looking Forward
3. Characters
Character Concepts
Aesthete
Army or Navy Officer
Captain of Industry
Clergyman
Creation
Demimondaine
Detective
Engineer
Explorer
Inventor
Medium
Native Leader
Reckoner
Reformer
Reporter
Scientist
Servant
Sportsman
Social Position
Women as Adventurers
Advantages
Advantages
New Advantages
Disadvantages
New Disadvantages
TL5 Skills
TL(5+1) Skills
New Skills
Economics
Currency and Prices
Social Status and Cost of Living
Job Table
Using Characters from History and Fiction
Captain Nemo
4. Matters of Life and Death
The Duel
Civilized Warfare
Martial Arts
The Playing Fields of Eton
On the Front Line
Scientific Fisticuffs
Mechanized Warfare
Aerial Combat
Military Organization and Rank
Colonial Warfare
Naval Combat
The Age of Sail
Purchased Commissions
Rail Transport and Logistics
Communication
The Age of Steam
Field Intelligence
The General Staff
The Dreadnought Age
Naval Organization and Rank
The Great Game
Criminal Investigation
Codes and Cryptography
Bertillon Statistics
Punishment
Healing and Medicine
Drugs
Nursing
Medicine and Mortality Rates
Inventing the Past
5. Marvelous Inventions
The Inventor
New Materials
The Skyscraper
Prime Movers
Water Power
Wind Power
Clockwork
Steam Engines
Primary Batteries
Power Transmission
How Much Power Do We Need?
Vehicles
Land Vehicles
Simple Steampunk Vehicles Design
Vehicle Stats Key
Water Vehicles
Air Vehicles
Space and Time Vehicles
Analytical Engines and Automata
Examples
Mechanical Men
Weapons
Personal Equipment
Optics
Tools
Other Devices
Clothing and Armor
The Chemist's Shop
TL5 Drugs
TL(5+1) Drugs
Chemical Substances
6. Weird Science
The Luminiferous Ether
Properties of the Ether
New Elements
Mysterious Rays
Wireless Telegraphy
Reactionless Drives
What Makes the Sun Shine?
Etheric Shock
Habitable Planets
Sunken Continents
Elan Vital
Antigravity
Gravity Screens
Negative Mass
The Secret of Life
Making Men from Animals
Alternative Theories of Evolution
Making Men from Corpses
Making Men from Chemicals
Psychical Research
Psychic Powers
Ghosts
Eugenics
Humanity Transformed
Etheric Devices and the Spirit World
Psychic Archaeology
Predictive Social Science
Magic
Fairy Tale Magic
Victorian Ritual Magic
Phrenology
Industrial Magic
Transcendentalism
7. The Grand Tour
Travel and Its Difficulties
As Powerful as a Locomotive
Circumnavigation
The British Empire
Free Trade
Colonialism and Its Discontents
The Metropolis
The Irish Question
Abolishing Slavery
Our American Cousins
Latin America
The Continent
The Wild West
Asiatic Kingdoms
The Balkans
Virtual Europe
Japan
Zionism
Mecca
Japonaiserie
The Dark Continent
The South Seas
Missionaries
The Planets
Mercury
Venus
The Boers
Leopold’s Crime
Mars
Places of Mystery
Jupiter
Saturn
The Planet Vulcan
8. Steampunk Campaigns
Building the Campaign
Cross-Genre Campaigns
Worlds of Wonder
Etheria
Being Etherian
Etheria’s World of the Mind
Venereans
Iron
Martians
Being Ironic
Iron’s World of the Mind
The Pinkertons
Steel Soldiers
John Bauer
Qabala
Being Qabalistic
Qabalah’s World of the Mind
Rabbinical Enchantments
Rebekah Schwartzberg
Providence
Being Providential
Providence’s World of the Mind
Nine Worthies
Father Carlos Javier
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

✦ Subjects

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