For more information on Steampunk, visit the Steampunk page. If you want to know how to write a Steampunk, check out Write a Steampunk Story. For more information on punk punk genres in general, visit the Punk Punk page. Steampunk has some significant overlap with its more magic-oriented counterpart Gaslamp Fantasy and its more advanced cousin, Diesel Punk, and usually exists side by side with Clock Punk.
Themes And Concepts:
- Alternate History
- Alternate Techline
- Avoiding the Great War
- Hollywood Science
- Industrialized Evil
- Ludd Was Right
- Romanticism Versus Enlightenment
- Rule of Cool
- The Sky Is an Ocean
- Science Is Good
- Technophobia
Character Types
- Action Girl
- Action Hero
- Adventurer Archaeologist
- Blue Blood
- Bold Explorer
- The Captain
- Cyborg
- Egomaniac Hunter
- The Engineer
- Evil Brit
- Evil Colonialist
- Evil Luddite
- Evil Poacher
- Gadgeteer Genius
- Gentleman Adventurer
- Gentleman and a Scholar
- Gentleman Thief
- Gentleman Wizard
- Great White Hunter
- Historical Domain Character
- Lady of Adventure
- Mad Scientist
- Man of Wealth and Taste
- Mr. Fixit
- Officer and a Gentleman
- One-Man Industrial Revolution
- Proper Lady
- Quintessential British Gentleman
- Railroad Baron
- Railroad Employee Roundhouse
- Robot Master
- Science Hero
- Sky Pirate
- Spirited Young Lady
- Steampunk Gadgeteers
- Submarine Pirates
- Wicked Cultured
- Wrench Wench
Settings
- Adventurer's Club
- Cattle Punk
- Clockworks Area
- Cosmic Horror Story
- The Empire
- Eternal Engine
- Floating Continent
- A Foggy Day in London Town
- Gaslamp Fantasy
- The Good Kingdom
- Industrial Ghetto
- Industrial Revolution
- Industrial World
- Lovecraft Lite
- Mad Science Fair
- Mad Scientist Laboratory
- Nightmarish Factory
- No OSHA Compliance
- Retro Universe
- Victorian London
- Wretched Hive
- Wrong Side of the Tracks
Objects And Inventions
- Adventurer Outfit
- Airships
- Artificial Limbs
- Awesome Anachronistic Apparel
- Big Electric Switch
- Clock Punk
- Clockwork Creature
- Cool Airship
- Cool Car
- Cool Train
- Cow Tools
- Dread Zeppelin
- Eldritch Abomination
- Giant Squid
- Goggles Do Nothing
- Goggles Do Something Unusual
- Gorgeous Period Dress
- Gratuitous Laboratory Flasks
- High-Class Glass
- Humongous Mecha
- Kraken and Leviathan
- Magitek
- Mechanical Abomination
- Mechanical Monster
- Mecha-Mooks
- Of Corsets Sexy
- Phlebotinum-Induced Steampunk
- Schizo Tech
- Steam Never Dies
- Submarine
- Those Magnificent Flying Machines
- Wind-Up Key
- Zeppelins from Another World
