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What I mean by “Goofy Slapstick Steampunk Tropes” is nothing silly just for the sake of silliness. Steampunk embodies a wide spectrum, from gritty gears-and-smoke realism to over-the-top silliness. For this campaign, we’re leaning toward the dramatic, weird, gothic end of the scale (Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Poe), and away from the cartoon comedy end. Examples of what I'm not going for: Silly gadgets like a steam-powered top hat that shoots lasers, an umbrella that turns into a pogo stick, or monocles that shoot lightning beams just because it’s funny. Cartoon logic, like jetpacks made from tea kettles, mechani

Also, all questions require an answer, so you might want to add a "None of the Above" in case someone would love to play in several games they've heard of, but doesn't want to GM them, or vice versa.

Sexual fantasy

Sexual attraction

Sexual influence

One of my character ideas on a list of some, below. I will let you take a guess. I assume the expected character has to be, well... classic and not colorful, I guess... I imagine that a character that overflows with steampunk isn't good for this. Just making assumptions. I know the theme looked for here is dark, gothic or weird. I am struggling to find a character I like with what I know so far of the "theme". My last one before this miiight fit but I am still unsure about it, to be fully honest... I thought about maybe going with Lilium (vampire or not). She is of victorian age but doesn't quite fit the wild west or steam

Guess we will start with this, while I think about things I really want. I expect I would probably agree with it, but more checking where the line is on cartoony or not, is probably good to have everyone on the same page. I do like Steampunk as a concept, but have only read/experienced a little of it, so good to get at least a general idea of the sort of technology you/we are thinking. Especially if we push more in that direction than Wild West or have characters connected to it.

Ah, good thing that was caught before anyone voted. Got that fixed.

Social influence

Bad influence

Not sure if I have much to say in that area. Rather open minded, I would be surprised at this point if there is anything I strongly don't like. Will keep thinking about anything that falls in the strong like area, but not sure yet if there is anything will fall into that category, rather than just things that fall more into I think it is cool category.

The last question is a "pick one" list.

Poll is up. I will keep an eye on this for new votes. See who/how many many vote. Give it some time. Again, this is a long term project, so won't rush into a choice, unless maybe a whole lot of people I enjoy writing with pick one option. Even then, that will just make me choose one to pick reading more quickly. Will take some to read and figure it out, especially I am a GM rather than player. Broke it up into three questions, whether you want to play as a player, GM, and if you are already familiar with the system. https://ecchidreams.com/community/topic/9930-poll-satais-library-of-mostly-unread-ttrpg-which-would-you-be-intereste

I briefly discussed this on the General Discussion thread. Over the years I have picked up a library of TTRPG books. Some I have had since childhood, some more recent acquisitions. I did read some of the childhood collection for fun, mostly reading the lore/player options/treasures/monsters sort of thing. But never played any game like this (though as of writing this I am preparing to get into one that is not part of this list). Dipping my toes into actually playing this sort of game. I decided to see how popular the books I had were, whether people were interested in playing them. This is not a short term project. This will take

She's good at that.

It might be too early for the Golden Dawn, but it was inspired by Masonic organizations and I think the Rosicrucians... or was it the other way around? I get my esoteric orders all mixed up. Regardless, if those organizations didn't exist til later, perhaps this character was an inspiration for them, a practitioner of secret thaumaturgic sexual arts, a coitamancer or something...

Oh god, who would want to get mixed up in that! Is it too late to change my character?

I think you can see why I want to play someone like him. Sex so good it's literally magic.

I know it sounds like a silly, obvious thing to say, but we ofc have the OOC here to discuss anything if there's any discomfort that DOES arise. <3

Start with this. Tell me what you want to exist in the setting. If you want people with bunny ears, now is the time to mention it. Also, tell me what you don't want. If anything I put in my last post about what I imagine and what I don't imagine for the setting runs contrary to what you imagine, we need to work it out now, not when we're a couple weeks into a roleplay.

@IsabellaRose Thank you for putting what I was just working out how to express so cleanly and clearly.

I was planning to just wholesale import basic historic reality (more like... um... well, as if it were a tv show - sometimes veering into exploring darker themes, sometimes just handwaving the troublesome aspects, depending on how much anyone wants to focus on them and what fits into the story) and alter whatever needed to be altered to fit the setting. That includes the the rebel remnants, ex-confederates, recently freed slaves, the encroachment of the settlers on First Nations lands, the Army carrying out its campaign to clear the "savages" from the lands... But as WickedCadrach said, as background unless it becomes useful to the plot

I feel like we could still explore a post-Civil War era without the civil war having been started for the same reason. The introduction of strange steampunk technology could result in the same sort of divide between the industrialized north and the plantation focused south. Perhaps we could use automatonized people instead? Or perhaps an inbalance in the existence of the special blue-coal type resource? It could be shifted instead into a war created mostly from a class disparity, perhaps one which existed much more heavily in the south. Maybe they instead shifted closer to neo-feudalism, and it wasn't a specific set of peoples but more a gene

I agree with this notion. It's a touch early for the Golden Dawn to be a thing, but it feels like Hermetic and Thelemic magic might be an aesthetic choice that makes sense for a character like that. EDIT: Oh! Also, if you want to go nuts with it, Google 'Thelemic sex magic'. Crowley was just... if I read about this man in a book, I'd say the author was stretching believability. EDIT 2: Eroto-comatose lucidity - aka, slow, tantric sex until you see the gods and spirits of the invisible world. Like I said... wild stuff.

Well yes we're meant to be fleshing out the world, seeing what sorts for the players and whatnot rn. What I listed are details I definitely think would make the game world more interesting and would really like so we can discuss and all that so anything you really want you can list, and anything you don't as well but definitely what you might want. Helps keep the players on the same page and of course see what works for Isabella.