How do we fix Steampunk?
Start by clearly stating what's there to fix.
By actually creating something besides 4chan threads.
>>97196423Try to have something to say, don't rely on retarded aesthetic for arthoes to carry you.This also applies to making a thread on 4chan.org
>>97196423Why would you do that? The tensions between technology, magic and nature that your pic brought in have already become fantasy staples. Its in goddman everything, has been for decades. The rest is just when goths discovered brown suits could hide their growing guts and if you added in more colours there were more girls you could photograph.
>>97196526>Its in goddman everythingmention 10 rpgs with this theme
alternate history Ancient Greece, where Hero of Alexandria's steam engines took off millennia early (but electricity, medicine, etc did not).so then you have the Greek gods and shir, not just London with blimps.
>>97196423Arcanum is technically a fantasy-steampunk crossover. Not pure steampunk. Your problem is fixed just by picking something without magic or classical fantasy races.
>>97196423Give it its own identity beyond "fantasy Victorian industrial era with cogs glued on".>>97196570Steampunk is automatically fantasy because the "technology" ranges from plausible anachronism to outright impossibility.
>open ended question>OP will not reply to any posts in itMod thread.
>>97196606Technically true, but I was talking about artistic genres. Not level of being grounded in reality.>Steampunksci-fi, steam technology, industrial revolution, victorian, colonization, humanism, orientalism, etc.>FantasyTolkien-esque, mythical races, medievalism, magic, knights and kings, spiritualism, etc.
>>97196531Here, mix of obscure and things even your grandma knows about. >Eberon (Basic bitch forgotten realms too)>Spire>Blades in the Dark>Mage the Nouning, only going to count once even though its a bunch of games >Magic the Gathering >Dungeon World >Engines & Empires>Dragonmech>World of Warcraft >Fucking Starwars Its in god damn everything. Hippy garbage man vs nature dualism is deeply ingrained in western culture.
>>97196737I clog the way you line up the cats.
>>97196563This is what I did with my setting because I fucking love Automatons as a concept
Did people not like the Dwemer
>>97196423Steampunk is an aesthetic, not a genre. There is nothing to fix.
>>97196737>colonization, orientalismthese two being considered offensive to depict nowadays is precisely why steampunk is dead
>>97196765You monster.
>>97196737>Not level of being grounded in reality.Fantasy directly pertains to the level of grounding, in terms of its application to games at least."Artistic "genres"" mindlessly parroted by limpdicks and leatherheads don't matter, because they're always worthless pigeonholes whose "definitions" change depending on who you ask, and they're pretty much always cited to profess some higher knowledge, importance, or culture the person doesn't actually possess.
>>97196805How could you call me a monster in the face of such an overwhelmingly positive response?
>>97196423You can't. It was made without any foundations, so it isn't substantial enough to fix.
