>>43370319Strictly speaking most people play as revolutionaries in a steampunk game. They're just revolutionaries in a socio-cultural sense, not a political one. They're inventors, scientists, and explorers.
The obsession with the idea of the "punk" has always bothered me. It's a highly limiting concept and one of the reasons why cyberpunk is dead. If low-lifes, criminals, and dregs are the norm then the counter-culture is guy in a suit working 9-5. Fuck, Neuromancer is about a sellout and his Corp freelancer minders.
In steampunk the punks are the optimists, there is a new land, a new discovery, waiting to be found. In cyberpunk the punks are pessimists, life is shit, you escape through VR, addiction, or violence. Dieselpunk can switch up based on how you want to run it, a WWI, WWII, or Great Depression based work will probably trend pessimistic, while a Roaring Twenties and 1950s based work will probably trend optimistic.
