The genre of "steampunk" is still very young, being around for only about 20 years or so. While the concept, and use of, steamp powered machines and equipment has been around for centuries, modern steampunk takes a different route and usually integrates this technology into a modern victorianesque setting, an alternate history setting, or even a fantasy setting with magic or special weapons. Many pen & paper RPG's touch on this and there have been a couple kickstarters for boardgames and such, but the type of game that I'm proposing is a successor to Arcanum.

Who's up for a successor to Arcanum? I figure since the post-apocalyptic genre have gotten modern renditions such as Wasteland 2, Torment has it's Torment:ToN successor, and Pillars of Eternity is in the footsteps of Baldurs Gate and Icewind Dale, Divinity Original Sin brings that fantasy series back to it's roots, and Shadowrun Returns touches on the lesser seen cyberpunk/fantasy, a straight-out steam engine bearing successor to Arcanum just seems befitting. It need not be like Arcanum, but be in the vein of it in that it has steampunk elements.

There was Warmachine Tactics and it's successful kickstarter campaign last year (http://www.warmachinetactics.com/), but that's strategy, not RPG. Divinity Dragon Commander was considered a hybrid RTS/TBS/RPG, but again, it feels more strategy than RPG. The same can be said with other titles with steam engines.

What do you think?

Thanks for reading! :)

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IT'S ALWAYS TIME FOR A NEW STEAMPUNK RPG.

THIS MAN HAS THE RIGHT IDEA.

/signed

You took the words right out of my mouth... *lol*

+1 for you ;)

I say since there can be so many set in fantasy settings or even sci-fish settings, why not the genre that's been evolving with the game world for about 20 years?

It's time for a steampunk revolution!

Right, TinyE?!

Even true sci-fi RPGs are pretty rare. Standard fantasy has a stranglehold on the genre.

I am also STILL waiting for my old west rpg !

I much prefer cyberpunk myself. But why not?

it is always a time for a good RPG no matter the setting.

About a few titles you named - somehow tbs and rts games gain being steampunkish (meaning a good game turns great when you add gyrocopters and such). Making a truely great rpg among other things requires delivering a belivable world for the player to experience. It just cannot be done by by cheap moves alone.

PS Steampunk as a genre can be dated by more than a century back. Circa 20 years is just a modern approach to a much older esthetic.

ditto

Arcanum is in my wishlist, played long time ago and it was great! I fondly remember the music.

I hope that the new steampunk rpg would be old-school too, ruining the game for many but us, old-schoolers.

I want a new Steampunk movie. "City of Lost Children" was too damn long ago.

Shhhh! Not so loudly! Or else EA will hear you, make it as the newest Steampunk RPG App for phones, and charge you 10 dollars for clicking each conversation option. Of course you will be able to bypass this feature by harvesting cogs from the Junkyard, which will take 7 hours in real-time to equal one branch of a single npc's dialogue tree.

Sure, let me call Nintendo and see if they have room for that in the--

Oh, right. They've got their headquarters shielded from communications and logic.

No, it isn't. It's on your shelf.

Check your PMs ; )