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Re: BrikWars: SteamPunk
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Thu, 17 May 2001 21:20:49 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.nelug, Wayne McCaul writes:
> There was another RPG, Space 1889 (?) I'm not sure how relevant it might be,
> but I'm fairly certain that it was Victorian-era space travel.

Another good RPG is Deadlands, though it's darker than Space 1889.

> > "Suzanne D. Rich" wrote:
> > 
> > > Suggested reading/viewing would, again, be better selected by the other
> > > guys, but from what I gather, it's kind of a low-tech, Victorian age
> > > sci-fi. Like, what they thought the future would be like. kinda creepy
> > > clockwork, mad scientist, fantastical, industrial, "magic with a dark
> > > side" (as said in the imdb). So, you might look to:
> > > 
> > > Jules Verne
> > >   20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
> > >   Paris in the Twentieth Century
> > > John Boland
> > >  League of Gentlemen
> > > Journey to the Center of the Earth (maybe?)
> > > Brazil (maybe?)
> > > Adventures of Baron Munchausen
> > > Edgar Rice Burroughs
> > > Time Bandits (maybe?)

Good list. Even the "maybes".

Frank



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If you have Sci-Fi, they have a show about Jules Verne - it's not very good story-wise, but there's some decent special effects; it features things like giant airships, an underground drilling vehicle, a hover tank, a robot, etc. Also, Disney is (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)

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