For more information on Steampunk, visit the Steampunk page. If you want to know how to write a Steampunk, check out SoYouWantTo.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
- Ludd Was Right
- Romanticism Versus Enlightenment
- The Sky Is an Ocean
- Technophobia
Character Types
- Action Girl
- Bold Explorer
- Evil Luddite
- Gadgeteer Genius
- Gentleman Adventurer
- Gentleman and a Scholar
- Gentleman Wizard
- Historical Domain Character
- Lady of Adventure
- Mad Scientist
- Mr. Fixit
- Officer and a Gentleman
- Proper Lady
- Sky Pirate
- Spirited Young Lady
- Steampunk Gadgeteers
- Wrench Wench
Settings
Objects And Inventions
- Adventurer Outfit
- Airships
- Awesome Anachronistic Apparel
- Clockwork Creature
- Cool Airship
- Cool Car
- Cool Train
- Dread Zeppelin
- Eldritch Abomination
- Giant Squid
- Goggles Do Nothing
- Goggles Do Something Unusual
- Gorgeous Period Dress
- High-Class Glass
- Kraken and Leviathan
- Magitek
- Mechanical Monster
- Of Corsets Sexy
- Phlebotinum-Induced Steampunk
- Schizo Tech
- Steam Never Dies
- Those Magnificent Flying Machines
- Zeppelins from Another World
