Steampunking

Hey guys,

Your loyal Hamiltonian Slacker here. During my slow recovery from the weekend, I have been thinking about doing possible one off LARP with an option to go into a ongoing depending on how I feel at GMing and how successful it is.

I presently have a basic Steampunkish story based around Babbage’s Analytical Machine, set in 1855. Basic just is that with the Advent of the Machine, the United Kingdom has become a superpower, the US is still split between the Confederates and the Union and are still fighting. France has allied with the UK, and Germany is still fractured, but is slowly uniting with some of it’s surrounding states in order to try and combat the UK. A Hacker generation is slowly developing, as the Analytic Machines become as wide spread in the Uk as computers are today. Transportation has developed into vast steam, and primitive diesel powered engines have been developed.

Obviously that isn’t all the info I have, but at this point, I’m just wondering how to develop a possible one day game off of it, so any tips and/or tricks for character creation and one day gaming would be most apreciated…

Do you want players to make their own characters (typical for a campaign), or will you write the characters (typical for a one-off game)?

Write the characters for now…

sounds interesting, shades of both the difference engine and etherscope.

Crazy the Wellington crowd is coming up for an idea for a Steam punk game as well.

wow great minds think alike, I also have been working on something steam punk for the last couple of years.

Mmmm, steampunk! :smiley:

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Sounds like I wasn’t the only one looking to do this. Didn’t know 'bout Etherscope. Any advice you can give me?

finally an excuse for a gasmask-corset combo

I’d love to play in a semi-regular steampunk game. I think that costuming would be a big part of it and I’d like to put a bit of effort into costume and props, in the hope that I’d be able to use them more than once.

Ah captain Vladislas Dante of the outlanders :slight_smile:

I’d most definitely be keen on steampunk larping of any kind

Hey guys,

Can anyone here recommend or know of a Rule System I can use for this?

What about the Kick Arse system? Do you need anything other than combat resolution?

That’s the main system I’m looking for. Where would I download the system?

[quote=“SlackerJ”]That’s the main system I’m looking for. Where would I download the system?[/quote]Not anywhere, as far as I know, sorry.

Most people are ordinary. If they get into a fight, they quietly play Rock-Paper-Scissors to work out the winner of the fight then mime out the result as spectacularly as possible.
Some people are Kick Arse. They automatically win a fight against someone who is ordinary. (Give them a card to demonstrate this to skeptics.)

You can tinker with this by setting up some intermediate levels, like Somewhat Kick Arse, or Super Kick Arse, if your setting requires it, and also vary the area of Kick Arseness, like a Scientific Kick Arse. You can also resolve skill challenges which don’t have a specific antagonist by playing Rock-Paper-Scissors against the GM.

Have come up with a basic ruleset, for a possible on going 'Punk larp, just in the process of developing the core rules, skills, costs, and purchases. Also trying to rack the brain cells in-between study to develop a one off to give this a go. Just wondering if I do a one day Saturday event, an over nighter and other such logistics.

Just trying to take this one step at a time, just in case I actually get round to actually running this…

Check out the http://www.greyveil.comwhich is the beginnings of the Wellington Steampunk LARP system.
and look at the other post, cus there is a lot of movement on the steampunk front…

Tell me how yours goes as I’d love to include anything you think was needed or was hard to do?

I have been keeping an eye on it, and it seems like an interesting way to go. Main problem is the issue of character creation, and trying to come up with a system to do it…

This has absolutely nothing to do with LARP, but I just noticed that the new Weta Workshop kids show, the WotWots has a steampunk spaceship in it. :smiley: No big surprise that some of the Weta people would be into steampunk I guess.

youtube.com/watch?v=VujjtKYUEiA

Made for really young kids, but I love the expressions they manage to create on those little aliens. Cute!