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Always thought it would make a great setting for BRP. For those interested in PDFs, you can get the everything bundle that includes all the rules, source books and adventures for $29.99 until July 5. I think it includes 17 pdfs.

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=2551&products_id=92700&filters=0_0_0_0&manufacturers_id=2551

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IIRC there are some notes somewhere by Marcus Rowland on converting Space 1889 to Cthulhu By Gaslight... Last time I ran a game in the setting I used BRP, I'd do the same again in a heart beat.

Nick

There's Cthulhu 1889 chapters in Volume One and Four of the Transaction of the Royal Martian Geographical Society.

http://www.heliograph.com/trmgs/trmgs4/cthulhu1889.shtml

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Oh dang. A good way to lose $29,99. I really really want that Victorian bonanza.

I think that I can now reveal that I have a Steampunk game in the pipeline. I cannot say anything about the date or the exact system, but it will be d100 and it will have airships, armoured steam trains and other steampunk weirdness.

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I think that I can now reveal that I have a Steampunk game in the pipeline. I cannot say anything about the date or the exact system, but it will be d100 and it will have airships, armoured steam trains and other steampunk weirdness.

I get the "steam" part of the term. But where does the "punk" part come in? To me, Space 1889 was simply H.G. Wells/Jules Verne/Edgar Rice Burroughs space fantasy translated into RPG terms. All very staid and proper Victorian gentlemen (except for that loutish American chap, Carter). ;)

In contrast, "cyberpunk" has pretty consistently painted a neo-Marxist, high tech, nihilistic dystopian future. Everyone's a punk in that genre. X(;D

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