Thanks for the help!

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I'm new to this board but love the genre.  I was in a one on one steampunk game that died out and am in a email game with a bunch of other players that is going well.  I'm glad to be here with people that love this game genre.

Hey, guys, I'm still in, but I have very little time to post. I'd like to be able to read everything in this game, though.

Thats fine.

The founder set this to one for easy reading, no posting requirements. So we don't "shoot up the charts" with posts. People can come by and check when they wish.

Happy Holidays and well wishes for your new year 2014

Happy holidays, all!

Happy New Year to all!

Well I think I figured out why it's been so quiet here lately.  My server stopped auto-bumping the forums Wanted Players ad back in January.  I suppose I should check on that thing every once in a while.

Once again the occasional reminder we are user driven here

Ask questions, ask for advice, suggest a show of get your Steam on. Its how we roll here.

Um... I'm almost done with my next steampunk book. That's about all the news I have.

Gravity still works. My concussion tells me so. :-P

Your sacrifices in the name of science are noted, and appreciated.

I am given to understand ligamental torsion still sucks; likewise barometric lressure

So say my back, knee  and ankles.

If ether of a propulsive capacity exists, or can be manipulated, then one day I may fall and not have a Newtonion concussion. Ergo, it is important to test. Afterall... the saying along the lines of... an absence of negative does not affirm the positive

All glorious to pursue in the name of science, brown and goggles!

Anyone see Doctor Snuggles? The wood and steam builder of space ships, earth drills and gizmos galore? Old cartoon show.

Here's a question for everyone:

What would you want to know better about your Victorian & Steampunk games?

I'm usually stumped on what everyday steampunk items the PCs would see. My game isn't heavy steampunk, but supposed to be Victoriana, so the whole world isn't overrun with steampunk gadgets and stuff yet. What's likely to have filtered down to remote areas that are still reasonably 'civilized'?

BBC had a show IIRC called Victorian Farm


In the Victorian days the rurual where using horse and blacksmithing to run farms.

So something like the post-to-post tractors where a big difference. If you think of a ferry boat pulling along a rope that goes to posts on each bank of the river you have an idea. The next series would be tractors more easily steered.

>A< tractor would be a big deal for a village. It might even see people trying to rent or crop share for the fella with the tractor to do work on their fields.

The transition also saw the tractor owners starting to buy up the nearby fields and that means those farm families had to leave. PCs on the roads might met some of those displaced people because of the tractor marvel. Then arrive at the farm land and see it at work.

An accurate pocket watch, say from a naval officer, might be a valued oddity. It being the only clock in the community. Seriously. No clock towers, no cell phones, no watches. Up at sunset and work till dark. The idea of counting minutes and seconds would be curious. Perhaps he folks with the watch ring the bells at 5 pm to call folks home for dinner or something. Or the medieval built church was donated the naval officer's pocket watch and use it to tell when the bell ringing hauls on the ropes

Two ideas to work with anyway

Routine reminder we are a question and answer driven group. So new posts generally come from asking questions. We function to save the answers so we can all search through the threads for ideas.

If a steam engine auto of gasses in the wilderness and there is no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Kachuga Kachuga Kachuga

You can tell by how the leaves vibrate.

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Our board often goes through quiet times. We save answers so as time went by a lot of questions could be looked up rather than asked. Thus we have quiet times. When a new person joins they ask questions. Any existing person can ask questions too. Then we save the answers and the quiet resumes.

Well let's see if we can liven things up shall we?

Remember to ask questions and tell what you are interested in.

We are a question & answer forum so its things like that which generate activity. Posts are saved to facilitate local research.

Though it is after our period I recommend the youtube channel "The Great War" hosted by Indy. It is doing a once per week episode on the events of WW1 which was 100 years ago. Plus they do various specials on this and that. If you see where 1889 might have gone in 1914 you can get an idea for what your mad scientists are working on in their Steampunk labs. Spoiler alert:

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A lot of people die.

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