Jazz 3e EN:JazzSteampunk

Jazz

JazzSteampunk is a genre module for Jazz. JazzCore is required.

Introduction

JazzSteampunk provides suggestions and optional rules for using Jazz with games set in a parallel Victorian era, or something very much like it. Social distinctions are important, and technology is a craft rather than a science. Machines are complex, ornate, and made by hand.

Typical descriptors

For primary descriptors, choose one word from Column 1, and one word from Column 2. For secondary descriptors, choose one from either column. Or make up your own descriptors (with the GM's permission).

Table: Descriptors

Column 1 Agile Analytical Athletic Belligerent Brawny Charming Clever Cynical Disreputable Famous Fearless Gregarious Hard-drinking Idealistic Kind-hearted Lower class Observant Patient Persuasive Rugged Serene Stealthy Stubborn Tough Upper class Wealthy Wily Wise

Column 2 Acrobat Actor Archeologist Artist Bodyguard Bureaucrat Contortionist Dirigible pilot Doctor Drunkard Engineer Explorer Gambler Historian Inventor Journalist Linguist Mystic Musician Novelist Politician Professor Psychiatrist Sailor Scientist Soldier Spy Stage magician

Additionally, most steampunk characters should have a descriptor indicating their nationality (British, Hungarian, Japanese, etc.).