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3[[http://ageofsteelrpg.com/ Age of Steel]] is a TabletopRoleplayingGame in the DieselPunk genre. The game is set in Neres, a world very similar to our own during the [[TheRoaringTwenties 1920s]] and [[TheThirties 30s]] except for the presence of diesel-powered mecha, airships being preferred over planes, and WeirdScience powered cybernetics.
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5Six years ago the various nations of Neres became embroiled in a global conflict called the Great War, a mirror of our [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI World War 1]]. Hundreds of thousands of men and women fought and died in the trenches, as bombs, gas, and {{Mecha}} were used by both sides.
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7Fearing the Great War would lead to the end of the world, [[AntiVillain genius scientist]] Johann Ansler created a super-weapon named the Peace Ray and used it to scare both sides of the war into an enforced ceasefire. Ansler subsequently vanished, leaving a fragile peace only maintained out of fear that he was out there, somewhere, watching.
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9Six years later and the tentative peace is beginning to fray. The various Great Nations have begun plotting against one another again, and in the shadows something even more insidious plots against all of humanity.
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11Age of Steel games blend [[AncientConspiracy occult conspiracy]] with cold war plotting and a good dose of action adventure.
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15!!Tropes found in ''Age of Steel''
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17* ActionGirl: The setting is gender-neutral, so women fought in the Great War. Several specific examples are mentioned in the main book, including [[AcePilot Red Molly]] and [[KnightInSourArmour Eleanor Greywood]].
18* ArtificialLimbs: Called Mechaugmetics, invented during the Great War and powered by AppliedPhlebotinum.
19* AntiVillain: Professor Ansler murdered hundreds of thousands of people in order to save millions.
20* DieselPunk: The core theme of the setting.
21* DisintegratorRay: Anslertech pistols and rifles, both of which leave nothing but dust of their victims.
22* EnforcedColdWar: The Great War was ended by Professor Ansler using his ‘[[WaveMotionGun Peace Ray]]’ to destroy a city on each side, and threatening to do so again unless the fighting stopped immediately. He subsequently vanished, leaving the various world governments keeping the peace out of fear of him returning.
23* TheFederation: the Litvian Empire is somewhere between this and a HegemonicEmpire. Although they are a lot more morally grey than most Federations.
24* GadgeteerGenius: a standard character type
25* {{Mecha}}: Heavy Battle Rigs are somewhere between mecha and Walking Tanks
26* MiniMecha: Rigs and Battle Rigs are this.
27* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Professor Ansler is a renowned physicist, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and mathematician. He is responsible for the majority of the AppliedPhlebotinum technology in the setting, which is referred to in-universe as 'Anslertech'
28* PoweredArmour: Anslertech armor are custom-built suits of armour that enhance a wearer's strength and include all manner of gadgets and subsystems.
29* RisingEmpire: the Free Nations of Kijani. A growing ProudWarriorRace nation.
30* SpaceColdWar: The so-called ‘Silent War’ currently being waged by the various governments against one another. Not actually an ‘official’ war.
31* StateSec: the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Midnight Order]] of the Theocratic Empire.
32* TheRepublic: the Republic of Kesh.
33* TheTheocracy: the Theocratic Empire of Prynne, complete with GodEmperor and StateSec.
34* VestigialEmpire: the Haldoran Third Kingdom. They once ruled most of the world, but are now in decline.
35* WalkingTank: Heavy Battle Rigs are basically this.
36* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Airships in Age of Steel are filled with safe ‘loftium’ which replaced the more dangerous hydrogen and inefficient helium. Additionally, airplanes never became as popular in Neres.
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