>Steampunk sword
>>43696542
>shytposting
>>43696542
You'd think the go-to would be some sort of steam-powered chainsaw or something, for the pseudo-high tech theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCuE5rHbPA
>>43696542
I mean, whenever I've made time-based weapons and stuff, I've always modeled them to use a lot of glasswork, watchwork, and delicate lesser materials, but that was always just my most enjoyed style of time-centric equipment. I was always sad is was more co-opted as 'steampunk'. I just don't get the style though. It seems kind of lazy and without much variation.
>>43696611
>implying you don't need a clock on your greatsword
>implying that extra belts and gears aren't of paramount importance
>>43696542
That'd actually make some sort of sense - rachet it back with a pneumatic compression loaded mechanism, then release to perform an augmented steam power swing!
>>43696763
This is a nice sword, but it has a lot of ways it could improve its look if it let up the hard 'gears and brass' limit.
>>43696799
you mean make it a katana and stick bicycle gears on it?
>>43696852
Looks like some Borderlands shit.
Not as bad as I thought it would be.
>>43696852
I like the look of that. I mean it's the usual Cool Sword, but it does have a nice simple aesthetic. It doesn't look Steampunk at all though, it could fit into many settings and concepts. Steampunk, post-apoc, junkyard turf wars, some game, an industrial town, someone repairing some family or legendary blade with limited tools, and so on. A good prop sword.
>>43696752
If those aren't there it can't cut time.
>>43696852
I'd dig some demented knight whose only equipment source and steed is a shitload of bicycles from some source.
I like baroque styles with a focus. Actually, I think the only thing that ever came close to Steampunk that I liked was FF6s aesthetic, which was more like, the industrial revolution happens but decides to found it on magic dead shit instead of dinosaur dead shit. Felt like it had a focus and a style its own.
>>43697211
Shit, wrong bicycle pic.
>>43697211
I have questions....
>>43697233
>>43697262
>>43697211
>tg_goes_jousting.jpg
>>43696852
Isn't that just a bike gear and brake stuck on it?
>>43697261
No, Anon, hush. There are some things man was not meant to know.
>>43696763
I like this one. Very well done.
>>43696542
She doesn't look very enthusiastic.
>>43697483
There are no smiles in steampunk. There is only smug.
>>43697211
I think I just took a d4 of sanity damage
>>43697416
I like the idea of some juryrigged magitech. Like a magic sword with a bike brake integrated, the brake acting like a damper on whatever killing enchantment is on the weapon.
>>43697817
Having gone to steampunk conventions and parties etc I have to disagree. Yeah the gluing gears on shit is dumb and most people agree but at the end of the day when everyone gets together to be silly together it's incredibly fun. Nobody is smug, they all know how ridiculous it is.
Plus a lot of steampunker's have crazy good booze.
Steampunk: fucking retarded.
>>43697261
And I don't have answers.
I wish steampunk focused less on victorian clockwork and more grungy industrialism.
>>43696852
He's done some other shit.
>>43699164
>>43699174
>>43699193
They're okay.
>>43699082
Your looking for diesel punk. More turn-of-the-centruy/post Great War.
>>43699164
>>43699174
>>43699193
>>43699214
These make me angrier than they probably should.
>>43699193
That's just a fucking trombone handle.
>>43699232
Did I post a diesel train nigger?
>>43699232
/n/ here. He did not in-fact post a diesel train.
I gotta admit, diesel train or just heavy locomotive is a pretty awesome aesthetic when used right. Or as some joke/strongman equipment.
>>43699466
But that's a steam train.
>>43696542
>Swordpunk watch
>>43699486
>or just heavy locomotive
>captcha: select all trains
>>43696542
What function does the clock serve? Why does a steampunk sword even HAVE gears on it? Do you even know how to steampunk?
>>43699551
What would an adventuring party composed of nothing but trains be like?
>>43699374
>>43699450
The post was:
>I wish steampunk focused less on victorian clockwork and more grungy industrialism.
Not
>I wish it focused more on dirty steam trains
>>43699596
That's why Steampunk bothers me, because any use of gears or clocks makes me think it's a time-item, so the other aesthetics are eh.
I honestly love more for weapons and armor to look total dirt industrial, bulky and gas-powered. I don't like pointless shit tacked onto weapons unless it's somehow holy, magical, or clearly mechanical like a small engine or whatever.
>>43699604
Fun until they figure out they're being railroaded
>>43699082
God damn that train brings back some memories of youth, just that look of FILTH.
I split rocks when I was a kid with my family company. I wish I could do a Miner/Driller aesthetic thing. It's crystal clear in my mind. But like 2 people would get it or dig it. I loved a lot of Fallout 3 and New Vegas for letting you fuck around with power tools used as weapons like the chainsaw and explosives and thermal lance, etc.
>>43699703
>>43696542
>My favorite game is Kingdom Hearts
>>43700480
I could stomach Kingdom Hearts weird gimmick key thing for one game. It was fun. I even liked some of the designs in 2. But god damn there have been so many of those awful things and trying to be even remotely serious with it just looks so fucking dumb.
>>43696940
underrated post
>>43696542
>>43696763
>>43696852
>>43699164
>>43699174
>>43699193
>>43699214
God fucking dammit. That's next level cogfoppery, when you ignore the few that's left on the material to just slap cogs on it.
I mean, fuck, Steampunk is supposed to be victorian. Where's the cavalry saber? Where's the infantry sword? Where's the sword cane? WHAT'S FUCKING VICTORIAN ABOUT THE GODDAMN BUSTER SWORD?
>>43699604
I do love me a properly done Giant Fucking Sword, gotta admit. Emphasis on 'proper'.
>>43701653
My idea of a steampunk setting was always a resurgence of the steam engine hype, air fortresses(which were common in the early 1900s) with only influence in terms of dress, but not much else. The society I'd imagine would be heavily blue collared, and to add realism I wouldn't add anything larger than a shed with a steam engine.
The thing about gears and cogs and...steam engine, is that it'd be clunky, inefficient, unrealistic, and get old since everything will have gears and cogs. However in my setting to have fun I wouldn't be above a steam powered giant, clunky robot suit. It would have not much practical except moving large things, and has a constant power supply of steam. If can further be used if lube was added to it's joints to increase speed...assuming you want to go through heavy maintenance.
>>43697211
>>43697262
>random encounter table
>>43696542
>Swordpunk steam
>>43701964
I would have it be heavily focused onSOCIAL JUSTICEwhere you have blue collar engineer/tinkerers having to decide between fighting the corrupt industrialists and left-over nobility who oppress the poor and break up unions, or joining them and getting filthy fucking rich themselves but never being able to enter "polite" society as the left-over nobility still serves as the gateway to it.
IE, you can get rich enough to get your kids into the upper class by having them be wealthy enough to marry the nobility who are all still rich as fuck themselves, but you yourself will never be able to do so.
Would you specialize in making your own equipment? Utilizing others? Enhancing your own body with biology or steamwork power armour? Will you be a quick-talking thief, a noble who has to hid just how desperate he is for money or else he'll be kicked out the upper class and demoted to commoner? A mad inventor who sells to the highest bidder? A genius engineer supplying the revolution with unique weapons and performing industrial sabotage?
Essentially, I want to run a M&M/Shadowrun steampunk mash-up.
>>43699551
>STAY AWAY FROM MY ERUDAMNED FUCKMOTHERING SILMARILS
>>43696625
>by the 3rd post
Thank the god of steam and brass, that lass' sword is really quite crass
>>43696852
>have shitty metal strip
>Sharpen it badly
>Stick it on a wooden handle
>Use gears as guard
>Use brake as handle guard thingy to stop swords
>>43699269
Daily reminder that gun-swords did exist.
Daily reminder people did even make gun-forks.
Daily reminder, someone, at some time, was killed by a gunfork.
Fucking steamshit, ruining my fucking fun. I mean, look at this fucking boat right here. It's sleek, it's cool, it's part of a faction of Jules Verne inspired mad scientists. No cogs, no gears, just the best example of steampunk not being shit ever.
No 'woo, we're all rich people and it's all nice', just the grind of industrialised warfare.
And I thought I was fucking safe. How wrong I was...
>>43702957
... And then this fucking giant 'bigger is better' robot turns up and everyone needs one. And of course it's a fucking giant samurai. Fuck off with that shit, please.
>>43702957
The red looks so damn good on the Covenants.
I have a chinese fleet myself
>>43697211
Thanks I'm saving this moment
>>43696542
>half a gear
This annoys me more than it should.
I don't really have as much against the steampunk look as some, but for god's sake, make the cogs *do something*.
>>43702957
I love the Dystopian wars style of Steampunk. They make it look steampunkish, cool and silly while not having random gears everywhere.
>>43698092
>magic bicycles
Now THAT is a good way to start something interesting.
A bicycle possessed by the spirit of a legendary beast.
>>43703287
It does something.
It blocks off half the handle.
Not that you'd want that, but it's a sword with a pair of belts and a wall clock on it. We're obviously looking at somethign that has a hefty stupidity quota to fill.
There is no reason to add guns,cogs,clocks to a simple sword.
Picrel is how I like steampunk
>>43700480
Really? Kingdom hearts? It looks a lot more like it's Chrono Trigger inspired.
>>43705072
Chrono Trigger did not have ridiculous swords like that.
Daily reminder that Dieselpunk is superior.
>>43704988
>simple sword
>blade is in parts
Really.
>>43697211
>Post-apocalyptic entertainment.
>>43696542
I think one of the problems is that Steampunk is the only *punk genre people know.
If people actually knew that other kinds like Diesel, Gear/Clock, etc, existed, I don't think this would happen. Stereotypical/"mainstream" "Steampunk" is basically a fucked-up Diesel/Gear/Steampunk mashupand I unironically like it
>>43699269
this thread has ruined my day someone is going to get punched
>>43702937
The gun isn't the issue
>>43705320
The opposite view is of course that because it is the most visible to the normies, it is steampunk that produces cogshit like in the OP.
If the 20s Jazz Age aesthetic had greater attraction to the mainstream than romanticised Victoriana then dieselpunk would held in scorn and all "true" alt-tech types would prefer steam.
What would you call ficton that postulated alternative alternative sub-cultures based on alternative technologies?
Double-punk?
>>43706184
>What would you call ficton that postulated alternative alternative sub-cultures based on alternative technologies?
You mean like there's one culture that has Steampunk, another has Gearpunk, etc.?
I've been building a setting with that, there's Hindu Cyberpunk India, Wild West/Dieselpunk Japan, etc. It's pretty damn fun.
>>43696542
Steampunk is literally the most autistic setting around, and I have never met a person that liked steampunk who wasn't a social spastic with body odour.
>>43706226
I think he means a world where autistic nerds on the internet are really into rebar instead of gears and call themselves barpunk
>>43706226
More in the vein of blogs from a convention set in a world that is not quite like our own, where all the kids dress up as Roger Bacon or Paracelsus and show off alchemical contraptions. All the while as the Kabalah-punks look down on them for choosing the pleb-tier mysticism to base their fantastic histories on.
Cultural Alternative History if you will.
>>43699507
Underated post
>>43706672
If you are going to post reddit memes, at least spell them correctly so my filter catches them you reddit piece of shit.
>>43704630
So sparklelord
>>43707589
Why you gotta go assuming everyone's a tard? He clearly meant that the post hasn't been ated enough.
>>43702937
Gunspoons?
>>43706384
I would read that.
>>43697233
Delete button exists anon.
>>43696542
well at least it has a handy barometer
although on closer inspection that's a clock still pretty handy
the rest is just standard useless gears though. gears belong on magical time swords
>>43701653
im pretty sure to count as cogfop it has to be pretty much all gears that just sit there looking pretty.
>>43720998
The biggest problem is the half gear that's preventing you from gripping the sword properly. Could've made it into a handle guard, but nope.
![guerre-infernale-04_660j4sq0[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Jc8qcId.jpg "guerre-infernale-04_660j4sq0[1].jpg")
>>43702957
I will never understand why steampunk diverted from its original turn-of-the-century sci-fi focus.
Using the works of Jules Vernes, H.G. Wells, E.R. Burroughs, or Danrit makes for far mores interesting settings that the usual "Victorian era with cog magic".
Plus there are tons of old pulp illustrations for reference material.
>>43703287
>>43704710
I am under the impression that she's holding that one in her hand.
>>43721032
oh yeah your right that's pretty horrible design
>>43721106
Because retards boil steampunk down to "hurrdurr cogs".
>but I don't want to look at stupid old pictures by dead people.
>But old books are stupid.
>Muh enlightened modern age WITH COGS.
Cogfops can't into inspiration, stylistic consistency or iterations on an evolving design. They don't want reference material, they just want to be part of the latest fad subculture. They don't put any thought into it- there's no inkling that they've considered their design in relation to late-19th/early-20th century sci-fi, just that they've decided that "airship pirates are cool".
>>43721447
>Realistic steampunk
>Be black
>Forever stuck wearing overalls and shoveling coal
>>43721494
>Taking inspiration from the works of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells means steampunk is racist.
>Have to keep all the social mores of the time.
>Only cogfops aren't into racism.
Fuck off, mate.
Guys.
Guise.
Nuclear trains.
Nuclear Mag-trains.
Giant Nuclear-powered Mag-trains in a post-apocalyptic world.
Giant Nuclear-powered City-trains in a post apocalyptic world.
Giant Nuclear-powered City-trains in a post apocalyptic world waging war against different Train-nation states over the few patches of ground stable enough for mining operations, usually through boarding actions that devolve into Trench-warfare straight out of WW1 on the giant city-trains.
>>43721703
/tg/ has had this discussion before.
>>43721557
I don't follow.
>>43721725
Massive Trainpunk following when?
>>43721447
>Cogfops can't into inspiration, stylistic consistency or iterations on an evolving design. They don't want reference material, they just want to be part of the latest fad subculture. They don't put any thought into it- there's no inkling that they've considered their design in relation to late-19th/early-20th century sci-fi, just that they've decided that "airship pirates are cool".
I don't disagree, but I must admit.. I'm not that much better. I think you're spot on. But..
Airship pirates *are* cool.
>>43721789
I liked Stardust.
![6b4ff36f46594e7d4e18876d78145f8cb0df6e9b[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ijebYSF.jpg "6b4ff36f46594e7d4e18876d78145f8cb0df6e9b[1].jpg")
>>43721787
Oh, it's already there.
In France we have the Snowpiercer comic series (very good) and the Ice Compagny (meh) that has something like 100 books, where the only thing surviving in the world are massive trains. I suspect the government suports it because it's free PR for the state-owned railways.
You americans can keep your vaults, we will survive the apocalypse by cruising in our glorious giant trains, honhonhon.
>>43721789
Yeah, but every fucker and their dog dresses as an airship pirate. Like zombies, which have been overused to such an extent that they're totally meaningless these days.
>>43721869
Also Rails. Can't forget about Negro railroad gangs terrorizing the flyover states in their battle trains.
>>43698225
>going to steamfag conventions
get out
>>43721494
>>Realistic Steampunk
>>Be black
>not overthrowing your colonial oppressors
>not starting a revolutionary group to fight for the rights of the worker and minorities
>notletting the power go to your head and becoming a brutal demagogue
>>43697211
WITNESS ME
