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...and while I'm posting links to other blogs with inspirational ideas, I should also link to Brass Goggles, dedicated to "the lighter side of Steampunk" according to their subtitle. The blog itself often features handcrafted steampunk-style creations, but also links to other steampunk-styled art - books, films, games, images, anything to do with steampunk.

We haven't done any steampunk-style gaming yet - the closest we've come is our pulp-era "Tales from the Aether" series, which is a related but different genre - but I'm sure if we decide to use a steampunk setting for a future game, we'll be able to find a lot of good reference material through this blog.

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Through The Morning News today I found a link to the blog Paleo-Future: A Look into the Future that Never Was. Looks like a good source for pulp/retro-style sci-fi ideas for games. The particular post linked to in the title above has some promotional postcards from around 1900, made by a German chocolatier, that purport to depict life in the year 2000. The posts are labelled by decade, so you can browse for posts about views of the future from, say, the 1920s. Also, popular topics such as cities of the future, flying cars, robots, and the year 2000 are linked in the sidebar as well.

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Castles of Tuscany ("castelli toscani") is a cool site about castles and other fortifications in the Tuscany province of Italy. It has clickable maps of the region that show where the castles, towers, and fortified cities are, and pages for each with some photos and information about them. Some of the pages include a basic plan of the fortification or map of the town, and also links to other sites with more photos or information. It's a neat resource whether you're planning some kind of game using medieval-style fortifications or simply like history or medieval architecture.

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In This RPG... the random RPG situation creator.

In this RPG... The PCs are avant-garde missionaries (and former lovers) who, with snarky blog entries, fight off unwanted advances for control of the town in a story ripped from today's headlines.

In this RPG... The PCs are a bloodthirsty mob of caped crusaders living in this very town who, with wire-assisted martial arts, fight treehugging hippies for reasons of their own, all in rhyming couplets.

Just hit refresh.

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