Eberron is more fantasy dieselpunk then true steampunk, honestly, WOTC should do a book on different campaign tones I.E. Lovecraftian, steampunk, etc., there was a good DNDbeyond article about this called something like “translating D&D into other genres”, I think this concept is wide enough for a 300-page expansion book, I’m thinking Deliron’s Dungeonpunk Almanac :)
Can Tasha's world be used as a starting place for a steampunk campaign?
It has the Artificer class, which is definitely a good fit for steampunk, but generally it doesn't really offer anything particularly steampunk-flavoured. In terms of setting, spells, items etc you'll still want to come up with or at least reskin a whole lot of material.
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Can Tasha's world be used as a starting place for a steampunk campaign?
It has the Artificer class, which is definitely a good fit for steampunk, but generally it doesn't really offer anything particularly steampunk-flavoured. In terms of setting, spells, items etc you'll still want to come up with or at least reskin a whole lot of material.
I'm working my Forgotten Realms game to have steampunk themes in it
There is distressing little information about the actual sourcebooks. They have different art, and show a lot of made-up names. I'd have never looked at forgotten realms. or Eborron.
There is distressing little information about the actual sourcebooks. They have different art, and show a lot of made-up names. I'd have never looked at forgotten realms. or Eborron.
Eberron is a pulp noir fantasy setting with some magitech tones, the Realms is classic high fantasy. That makes Eberron a slightly better fit for steampunk than the other settings, but really there's no official setting with an overtly steampunk aesthetic. Ravnica can arguably by steampunkified as easily as Eberron, but that doesn't make it easy full stop. All the official settings from WotC are some kind of variation on fantasy. They never stray very far from that. If you google "steampunk D&D" there's a ton of unofficial stuff to be found though.
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Can Tasha's world be used as a starting place for a steampunk campaign?
Are there any current sourcebooks that could be the starting point for a steampunk themed game?
There is an actual 5E sourcebook, but it is not in digital format.
It does not seem as if Homebrew can be pushed far enough to be a whole sourcebook, mainly do to lack of character classes.
The Eberron books, kinda.
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Eberron is more fantasy dieselpunk then true steampunk, honestly, WOTC should do a book on different campaign tones I.E. Lovecraftian, steampunk, etc., there was a good DNDbeyond article about this called something like “translating D&D into other genres”, I think this concept is wide enough for a 300-page expansion book, I’m thinking Deliron’s Dungeonpunk Almanac :)
Mystic v3 should be official, nuff said.
It's not a setting
It has the Artificer class, which is definitely a good fit for steampunk, but generally it doesn't really offer anything particularly steampunk-flavoured. In terms of setting, spells, items etc you'll still want to come up with or at least reskin a whole lot of material.
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I'm working my Forgotten Realms game to have steampunk themes in it
There is distressing little information about the actual sourcebooks. They have different art, and show a lot of made-up names. I'd have never looked at forgotten realms. or Eborron.
A Mechanus campaign could work very well for a Clockpunk sort of thing.
Mystic v3 should be official, nuff said.
Eberron is a pulp noir fantasy setting with some magitech tones, the Realms is classic high fantasy. That makes Eberron a slightly better fit for steampunk than the other settings, but really there's no official setting with an overtly steampunk aesthetic. Ravnica can arguably by steampunkified as easily as Eberron, but that doesn't make it easy full stop. All the official settings from WotC are some kind of variation on fantasy. They never stray very far from that. If you google "steampunk D&D" there's a ton of unofficial stuff to be found though.
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