Hey oh

So far the project is going to be a DM map with a steam punk style to it but we still need a location for the map.

Using photos, sketches and words post a location that you think would be brilliant place for a DM map. This will end around Sunday and a poll will quickly follow where you will get the chance to vote on some of the best ideas.

Thanks

What about steampunk version of like sleepy hollow or Salem. (resident evil 4 does also come to mind) it has a really dark feel to it but still that old world architecture (not even sure what era to call it). Small enough where the city could be the DM, but at the same time still alot of building and elements that could be added to it.


-church
-Houses
-town square with a statue or something
-graveyard
- vegetable/wheat/corn fields surrounding the town
-classic creepy house on the hill
-creepy forest beyond that (mark the boundary of the map)

could even do the insides of some buildings.

Originally Posted by Eltrex06

What about steampunk version of like sleepy hollow or Salem. (resident evil 4 does also come to mind) it has a really dark feel to it but still that old world architecture (not even sure what era to call it). Small enough where the city could be the DM, but at the same time still alot of building and elements that could be added to it.


-church
-Houses
-town square with a statue or something
-graveyard
- vegetable/wheat/corn fields surrounding the town
-classic creepy house on the hill
-creepy forest beyond that (mark the boundary of the map)

could even do the insides of some buildings.

Taken straight from my mouth, ill post my moodboard tomorrow hopefully during a break from class, I was thinking this or a Jack the Ripper-esk style mixed with a nightmare before christmas

Steampunk London ;D

steam punk arabia?

Steam punk something original! (I like steam punk Arabia - makes me thing of turn of the century exploration and British empire stuff... but steam punk!)

Here is the moodboard i whipped up quite quickly, which is essentially very close to the moodboard Elextrex had posted.

Edit: to add to the images, i was thinking very twisting winding halls/ alleys with and oddly mishapen/deformed areas. If we added that with a very dark feel and of course the SteamPunk style, it could be very creepy and cool

Originally Posted by Eltrex06

What about steampunk version of like sleepy hollow or Salem. (resident evil 4 does also come to mind) it has a really dark feel to it but still that old world architecture.


-church
-Houses
-town square with a statue or something
-graveyard
- vegetable/wheat/corn fields surrounding the town
-classic creepy house on the hill
-creepy forest beyond that

Uhm really not bad, it remembers me something like MediEvil 2 game, set in victorian london with a lot of steampunk styled elements. something like 1st industrial revolution.
Steampunk brings to my mind also the nautilus submarine from the "twenty thousand leagues under the sea" Think about how could be set it all inside the nautilus..

Looking good so far everyone, I personally like the nautilus submarine.

Remember this will end tomorrow and the best ideas from here will be pout up to vote... So getting posting more ideas people.

Originally Posted by r_fletch_r

steam punk arabia?

YES!

I'd like to add that my idea pretty much feeds off of Eltrex06, just with a small not so cartoony but creepy twisty look

Can it be the Alan Moore LXG nautilus?

How about something like a fortress with lush green sorroundings and waterfalls.

Many choke points as well.

Sorry I can't post pictures because I'm not on a PC but I have this website with some awesome pictures of a fortress in India. Rajput times.

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/tag...d/interesting/

more Rajput stuff

http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl...l=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Hey guys going to keep this post open a wee bit longer as I would like to see some other suggestions and mood boards.

The vote will be postponed till Wednesday....

I like steam punk, but I do feel like its getting to be really dull right now. I kinda hate the idea of Gothic steam punk because I feel like that's a mix of two horrendously played out ideas to make something totally boring and predictable. (while I'm at it: 'dark' twists on fairy-tales/childhood stories can fuck right fucking off.)

So uh, my vote would be... DEISELPUNK!


The first time I heard about deiselpunk I was intrigued. There's basically not much artwork to represent it, but slam steampunk and cyberpunk together and meet them somewhere in the the middle. I would think of it as if cyberpunk was SET in the 50's-80's rather than written in the 80's.

Think heavy post industrial stuff. Main visual themes would be lots of iron and large buildings that borrow the materials from steam punk and the looks from cyberpunk, retro computer systems exaggerated in the same way that steam punk exaggerates pneumatic mail tubes and stuff.

Alot of the stuff I'm posting fly's for some reason because the three main sources of inspiration I can find are:
>The Mortal Engines books, about giant cities on tank tracks that crawl across the wasteland eating each other. (think howls moving city). and airships.
>Ian Mcque, a fantastic concept artist whose stuff you will have seen:http://mcqueconcept.blogspot.com/
>Theo Prins, as above. He paints giant floating tanker ships and busy ports in the sky.

These images don't necessarily constitute a mood board, the more explain the theme.

DeiselPunk for the win!

Fuck yes, deiselpunk

DEISEL PUNK!

Love the DieselPunk look, but I have to say, except for the flying vehicles I can't see a lot of steampunk elements to it (again, I'm no expert so I may be wrong) - it does remind me a lot of the Fallout style... Hmmm... speaking about giant ships, what if we make a low gravity map where you can jump from one ship to another? We could make 1 or 2 levels for each ship so there are spaces for close combat as well as sniping nests... maybe link the ships with bridges/fallen beams or just place jumping platforms from one specific point to another... Or organize them to create a specific pattern when seen from above - something symbolic like a gear, a bio hazard sign or a skull... Just a thought

Is it something like Blade Runner´s visual style?

Yeah part of what I like about deiselpunk is that it borrows from cyber and steampunk, but I agree the steampunk influence isn't so visual there.

I think of deiselpunk as having alot of the looks of early cyberpunk, with the extrapolation of technology that steam punk has. Like instead of a steam powered iron cast walking spider you have petrol pumping steel spider with 80's CRT monitor computers impossibly running the whole thing and the look of a Transit van transformer :P

edit: I have a theory, anything is awesome, as long as we suffix 'punk' on the end. Then it's gold, pure gold!

edit2: Latinpunk! Rastapunk! Farmpunk!

diesel punk...... hmm that's really interesting. haven't really herd much or really anything at all about it. it does have a very fallout/gritty look about it. also remind me a little of like water world.

floating ships sounds like a pretty cool idea. Had a friend who started to create a map in a giant blimp. it was really cool from what he had finished last time i saw it.

Originally Posted by fearian

edit: I have a theory, anything is awesome, as long as we suffix 'punk' on the end. Then it's gold, pure gold!

edit2: Latinpunk! Rastapunk! Farmpunk!

Originally Posted by fearian

Yeah part of what I like about deiselpunk is that it borrows from cyber and steampunk, but I agree the steampunk influence isn't so visual there.

I think of deiselpunk as having alot of the looks of early cyberpunk, with the extrapolation of technology that steam punk has. Like instead of a steam powered iron cast walking spider you have petrol pumping steel spider with 80's CRT monitor computers impossibly running the whole thing and the look of a Transit van transformer :P

edit: I have a theory, anything is awesome, as long as we suffix 'punk' on the end. Then it's gold, pure gold!

edit2: Latinpunk! Rastapunk! Farmpunk!

he has broken the code!

Diesel Punk is awesome, at least I'n my head theres so much more we can do visually with lots of rivets and steel, and grimy oily machinery. Steam Punk to me seems regal and kind of comical, where as the idea of Diesel Punk brings images of harsh imposing machinery, and some kind of dystopic future ruled by an evil regime. I like it more It sexes my head.