GURPS Steampunk 1 Settings and Style

✍ Scribed by Phil Masters, Nikola Vrtis

• Publisher: Steve Jackson Games
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 57
• Series: GURPS 4th Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
What Is Present
Publication History
About the Author
1. Dreams of Steam
What Is Steampunk?
Sources
Period Fiction
The Steam Age and Punk
Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor
Proto-Steampunk
The First Years of Steampunk
Historical Fiction
“Maker” Culture
The 21st Century: Goths Discover Brown
2. The Inspirational Era
The Age of Romantic Science
Revolutions, Political and Otherwise
The Long 19th Century
The World in 1789
The Napoleonic Wars
Late Georgian Days
An Age of Exploration
Crime and Police
The Early Victorian Era
A New Kind of World
Go West!
Imperial Expansion
Mitteleuropa n Cool, Prussian Villainy?
The Long Afternoon
New Technologies
Steam in the West
The Looming War
The Fashoda Incident
The Scramble for Africa
Edwardian Twilight
Non-Western Steampunk
3. Steampunk and Game Worlds
Subgenres
Modes
The One Big Difference
Moods
Technological Bases
What’s Wrong With Airships?
Quick and Dirty Steam-Tech
Neo-Steampunk Futures
Steampunk Inventing
Wild Technological Malfunction Table
Magic and Psychic Powers
Clockpunk Alchemy
Victorian Magical Practices
The Victorian Paranormal
Assembling the Elements
Period vs. Punk
Combinations and Permutations
The Mob Has Spoken!
4. How to Be Steampunk
The Spirit of the Steam Age
A Flawed Era?
Maybe It’s All Just Show?
The Numbers Game
Social Class
Masters and Servants
What Social Status Gets You
Going Pulp
Hysteria, Fainting, and the Vapors
All Is Lost!
Scandalous Victorians
Dressing the Part
Georgian Costume
Victorian Costume
Edwardian and Pre-WWI Costume
Steampunking Other Genres
Period Punk and Raygun Gothic
Etiquette
Formal Manners
More Scandalous Victorians
Putting Some Punk on It
Glossary
Further Reading and Viewing
Index

✦ Subjects

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