On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 8:34 AM CST Onno Meyer wrote:
>What makes the difference between age of steam vehicles and >steampunk vehicles? I'm thinking of 'background' vehicles, >not the one-of-a-kind vehicles by inventor protagonists or >antagonists. To me, for a vehicle to be steampunk rather than age of steam it needs to require a significant change in scientific progress (and likey the laws of physics) to exist -- in other words, an alternate history. >Cutting corners for profit? Check. > >Rigid class differences in accommodations? Check. > >Exploding steam engines? Check. > >Insufficient lifeboats? Check So the Titanic was steampunk? Brandon _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
