Changes: Vehicles: Steampunk Conveyances

Revision as of 20:14, 1 December 2020

GURPS Vehicles: Steampunk Conveyances is effectively an update on the classic steampunk material covering 30 different vehicles for land, sea, and space.

The following tables combines material that appears in both this work and the Classic books Classic: Steampunk and Classic: Steamtech.

For connivance, vehicles that exists in both Classic and 4e are in bold with any changes in TL noted with Classic reference. A TL(x+y) denotes a likely super science vehicle even if it lacks the "^".

Land

Stat table for Steampunk Conveyances vehicles is on p. 8

Vehicle	TL	Classic reference	4e reference
Hansom Cab; 1834	TL5	NG	p. 4
Stephenson’s Rocket; 1830	TL5	NG	p. 4
Colonial Locomotive; ~1880s	TL5	Classic: Steampunk p. 74	p. 5
Military Train; 1882 (prototypes 1860s)	TL5	Classic: Steamtech p. 80-82	NG
The Mallard; 1938	TL6	NG	p. 5
Trevithick Steam Carriage; 1803	TL5	Classic: Steampunk p. 74	p. 5
L’Obéissante; 1875	TL5	Classic: Steampunk p. 74	p. 5
Military Bicycle; late 19th-early 20th century	TL6	Classic: Steamtech p. 82	NG
Steam Tricycle; 1880s	TL6	NG	p. 6
Stanley Steamer; 1897-1924	TL6	Classic: Steampunk p. 74	p. 6
Steam Wagon; 1920s	TL6	Classic: Steampunk p. 74	p. 6
Spider	TL(5+1)	Classic: Steamtech p. 82-83	NG
Steam Elephant	TL(5+1)	Classic: Steamtech p. 83	NG
Steam House (Engine)	TL(6+1)	TL(5+1) Touring Gazebo; Classic: Steamtech p. 83-84	p. 6
Land Ironclad	TL(6+1)	TL5; Classic: Steampunk p. 74-75	p. 6
Steam Man of the Prairies	TL(6+1)	TL(5+1) Eisensold; Classic: Steamtech p. 75	p. 6
Iron Horse	TL(6+1)	TL(5+1); Classic: Steampunk p. 75	p. 7
O-Daisuchiimu	TL(6+1)	TL(5+1); Classic: Steampunk p. 77	p. 7

Sea

Stats table for Steampunk Conveyances vehicles is on p. 11

Vehicle	TL	Classic reference	4e TL reference
Racing and Pleasure Yacht; ~1851	TL5	Classic: Steamtech p. 85	NG
H.M.S Devistation; 1873	TL5	Classic: Steampunk p. 79	NG
Steam Junk; viable	TL5	Classic: Steampunk p. 79	NG
Small Steam Launch; late 19th century	TL6	TL5; Classic: Steamtech p. 86-67	p. 9
Armed Launch; viable	TL6	NG	p. 9
Turbinia; 1894	TL6	TL5; Classic: Steampunk p. 79	NG
Torpedeo Ram; 1881	TL6	NG	p. 9-10
Pre-Dreadnought Battleship; 1880s-1890s	TL6	NG	p. 10
H.M.S Dreadnaught; 1905	TL6	TL(5+1); Classic: Steampunk p. 79	NG
Nautilus (historical); 1803	TL5	Classic: Steamtech p. 84	p. 10
Resurgam; 1879	TL5	Classic: Steamtech p. 84	NG
B-Class Submarine; 1904	TL6	NG	p. 11
Advanced Submarine (Verne’s Nautilus)	TL(5+1)^	TL(5+1); Classic: Steampunk p. 80	p. 10-11
Thalassonautic Velocipede	TL(5+1)	Classic: Steamtech p. 87	NG

Aircraft and Space

Stat table for Steampunk Conveyances vehicles is on p. 17.

All Steampunk spaceships go to TL(5+2)^ from Classic's TL(5+1). See Superscience Spaceships under List of Spaceships for book references.

Underlined vehicles are impossible for various reasons.:

Rocket pack (as opposed to jet packs which do work in the real world) attempts go back to Wan Hu's with a chair. .Bases on Mythbuster's tests his disappearing in a puff of smoke was him blowing himself up. and not any actual flight.
Ornithopter involves flapping like a bird via muscle power. It is only with late TL7 materials that such a vehicle can actually work.

Lighter then Air Craft

Vehicle	TL	Classic TL reference	4e TL reference
Observation Balloon; 1784	TL5	Classic: Steampunk p. 81	p. 13
Aereon Airship; 1863	TL5	Classic: Steamtech p. 97-98	p. 13?
Santos Dumont No. 9; 1903	TL5	NG	p. 13
Adventurers’ Dirigible; post WWI	TL6	NG	p. 13
Cargo Dirigible; post WWI	TL6	Classic: Steampunk p. 81	NG
Zeppelin; 1900 (P-Class; 1914)	TL6	TL(5+1); Classic: Steamtech p. 90-91	p. 14

Heavier then Air Craft

Vehicle	TL	Classic TL reference	4e TL reference
Clockpunk Hang glider; 6th century, China; late 15 century Leonardo Da Vinci	TL(4+1)	NG	p. 13
Victorian Glider	TL5/(5+1)	TL5, Prototype glider; Classic: Steampunk p. 82	p. 13
Rocket Pack	TL5	Classic: Steamtech p. 88-89	NG
Ornithopter, (Steampunk)	TL(5+1)	Classic: Steampunk p. 82	p. 15
The Albatross	TL(5+1)^	NG	p. 16
Wireless aeronef	TL(5+1)	Classic: Steamtech p. 90	NG
Personal Flight Harness	TL(5+1)	Classic: Steamtech p. 89	NG
Sky City	TL(5+1)	Classic: Steampunk p. 82	NG
Electric Aeronef	TL(5+1)^	TL(5+1); Classic: Steampunk p. 83 (Air)	p. 16
Aerial Dreadnaught (Battleship)	TL(6+1)	TL(5+1); Classic: Steampunk p. 81	p. 14

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 ''[http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/steampunkconveyances/ GURPS Vehicles: Steampunk Conveyances]'' is effectively an update on the classic steampunk material covering 30 different vehicles for land, sea, and space.
-The following tables denote material that appears in both this work and the Classic books [[Classic: Steampunk]] and [[Classic: Steamtech]].
+The following tables combines material that appears in both this work and the Classic books [[Classic: Steampunk]] and [[Classic: Steamtech]].
-For connivance material that exists in both Classic and 4e are in bold with any changes in TL noted with Classic reference.  A TL(x+y) denotes a likely super science vehicle even if it lacks the "^".
+For connivance, vehicles that exists in both Classic and 4e are in bold with any changes in TL noted with Classic reference.  A TL(x+y) denotes a likely super science vehicle even if it lacks the "^".
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