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To be honest Steampunk has a certain amount of suspension of disbelieve in it. Its like saying airships are a practical and viable means of transportation against say... trains. The point I guess I'm sleepily trying to say is some things can work on the 'if I wish hard enough they come true' law and others well cant.

A big hulking behemoth with a clockwork 'mind'? sure! a steam powered walking suit that punches people in the face with jackhammers? even better! A aetheric-refractal-prism-ray gun that shoots rainbows and makes everyone happy and wan to frolic in the streets... err well... I defer to who ever is running the game on that one...

I personally like playing period characters to the best of my ability, but I love a good old steam automata or auto-loading gear launcher as much as the next man. I suppose it is its own kind of magic though its not 'at will' its still just as vague. Provided you can bullshit it well enough I think there's lots of free room in Steam-punk for the eccentric to the mundane, from strictly historical to the absurd.

Cog: I will now call you boiler butt.

I just want to see the looks on people's faces when someone without a fully prepared artillery team has to deal with one of my monsters.

But at this point I've got a knight/soldier and some pioneering novice mechanical engineer. If Dante or someone else who's an expert on this stuff is making such an engineer I might have to see about apprenticing him to them. Otherwise he'd have to work for some sort of government or corporation or group. Can't see him working solo as some sort of rich mad-doctor.

...might be I need to reinvent Andell.

I think Cog would flip out if I did that.

Fish: Though that does sound fun Ive really got my heart on playing a medical doctor, as to do that sort of tinkerer type thing seems to close to Dante... Not that I wouldn't do it, just I think this sounds more fun for me.

Som: Though a GM has some power in a conventional game, in a free from RP there really isn't a limit on power density, mechanical torque or other things that would make such suits impossible. The 'rules' that govern the setting are just as different from traditional reality as they are in say a cyberpunk, or fantasy setting. This is after all essentially the same setting that brought us war games involving British infantry versus Martians.

Because of that its hard to really say such things are not specifically possible. Take things a like Tesla reactors, and clockwork differential engines with intelligence. Both are essentially base points for a lot of steam punk concepts yet that are pure flub. As such the technologies that branch off from that are also flub thus its kind of hard to put a point and say 'hey now that's not right' When really there is no such limit. If there was, the base tech wouldn't exist in the first place.

As long as everyone corresponds to the technological equivalence theory (an Revolver will kill you just as dead as the transpectral distegrator ray) It all comes down to writing. Bad RP or bad writing are equally unexcusable regardless of the choice of medium.

Ed: ******** you, Its not for me at all. Im writing descriptions for other people who aren't familiar with the period and to prevent people bringing in ridiculous s**t like 88mm WWII anti-aircraft guns in a time where fixed ammunition is still in its infancy.

Take your vendettas elsewhere.

Hm, and I thought this was about having fun...

You're too ******** wrapped up in the fact that I placed your name in something to bother realizing the point.

So, think whatever the hell you want.

God stop the ******** whining.

Would it make you feel better if i said DANTE'S LIST instead of DANTE?

Because apparently all the ******** weapons you have listed are great, but my steam powered Knight is the end of the world.