Steampunk

Sitemap of Steampunk content for Table-Top Roleplaying Games.

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People

• Andromeda Andropoulis
  "On Steampunk Earth 6, Professor James Moriarty was the Napoleon of Crime. Note the use of the past tense, because on a very early spring morning in 1889, Moriarty and several members of his gang were found dead in the middle of a park in London."
  
  
• Captain Pari of the Solar Service
  "Captain Pari is a proven combat veteran who is tough, brave, efficient and able to think fast under pressure. She has ..."
  
  
• Joe Babbage, Steambus Driver
  "Yep, sonny, I've been running this old girl from the Bay Bridge to Daly City for the better part of 17 years now and you'll not find a more reliable Steambus in all of the Bay Area!"
  
• Joe Bosley, Street Sweeper
  "Like I was saying, this is a hell of a town for garbage in the streets. Last week, it was the Brotherhood of Airshippers parade and them boys was partying hard up in those zeppelins."
  
  
• Kirstin Danger, Scientific Detective
  "In her early days at university, Kirstin was unsure of where she was going with her life. Many business concerns and universities had already offered..."
  
  
• Lady Maxine Smillington-Karp
  "In 1866 Queen Victoria, with the assistance of certain members of the British government, established an elite intelligence service that would deal solely with 'threats of a scientific nature.' In order to maintain very tight security,..."
  
  
• Molly O'My
  "First off, Molly's last name is not really 'O'My.' She took that surname partly to distance herself from her well-to-do Irish family, but mostly because it is what she heard so often as a child...as in,..."
  
  
• Professor Elisa Sandoval
  "The legend among students is that working with Professor Sandoval is the greatest learning experience you'll ever get, assuming that you survive."
  
  
• The Amazing Little Sindy
  "It was the summer of 1889 that the noted scientific team of Walter Morell and Kendall Bellflower found themselves confronted by two terrible facts: Kendall's daughter, Sindell was dying from a terrible form of skin cancer and..."
  
  

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Places

• Alabama "Better Living Through Chemistry"
  "Then, in his quiet way, Argus addressed the group, telling them that he thought he might have solved 'this whole damned race thing.' He told them that he had..."
  
  
• Delaware "Evil Geniuses Welcome Here!"
  "The fact is that starting in 1880, the tiny state of Delaware began allowing Mad Scientists and Evil Geniuses to set up shop in the state as long as ..."
  
  
• Indiana "White People Go Home!"
  "While it is not legal to actually discriminate against white people, there is very little chance that they would find a home for sale and almost no chance of buying land on which to build anything."
  
  
• Kentucky "Faster Horses"
  "The fastest speed ever clocked by a horse from Kentucky was 87 miles per hour, a speed that the horse kept up for just over 20 minutes."
  
  
• Montana "Water, Water Everywhere!"
  "The most interesting iteration of the Big Sky State is the one on Earth 109, where most of the state is ..."
  
  
• New Jersey "Bedeviled"
  "Shortly after the first white settlers set foot in New Jersey, a terrible creature came out of the forest and killed a few of them. Thus was the legend of the Jersey Devil born."
  
  
• Ohio "The Steam State"
  "What this Ohio does is make steam engines. Lots and lots of steam engines ... huge ones, tiny ones, super efficient ones, lightweight ones ..."
  
  
• Professor Pilbon's Flying Laboratory
  "It was in the early fall of 1881 that young Professor Archimedes Pilbon decided that having to leave his laboratory to go to various locales on missions for the Queen just would not do."
  
  
• Tennessee "The Invisible State"
  "... used his Light Diffusement Cannon to render the entire state invisible, with the intent of then ransoming Tennessee for millions of dollars. Imagine his surprise when ..."
  
  
• The Amazing Mobile Village
  "It has long been a joke that if you give the Society of Inventors enough money, sooner or later they will invent something useful. Well, the kings of the Five Lands gave them a whole bunch of money in hopes of getting war machines that could hold off the Southern Horde, but what they got was..."
  
  

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Things

• By the Numbers: 8
  "... known as a lusty and energetic fellow, it's rather amazing that ..."
  
  
• By the Numbers: 79
  "The ... support boats report that ... submerged successfully, but failed to ..."
  
  
• E is for Ecto Gun
  "Invented in 1870 by the famed Bavarian ghostbuster Rudolph Bader, the ecto gun is an indispensable part of any occult investigator’s bag of tricks."
  
  
• Floaty Gravel
  "Ahem! If you will open your textbooks to page 112, we shall discuss that most important discovery of this century, Gravity Negating Granite, or as I'm quite sure all of you call it, 'Floaty Gravel'."
  
  
• Jump Gates
  "This can cause all sorts of problems from the minor ... to the catastrophic (you weren't there to enter the shutdown code when your tacyonic power generator went critical and turned New York city into a smoldering crater)."
  
  
• Popping Rocks
  "But some years ago, a scientist found that crushed popped Popping Rocks could be blended with other chemicals to create ..."