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List of Gaslamp Fantasy Games

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	* [[Unhallowed Metropolis]] (Gaslamp Fantasy/[[Screampunk]] hybrid)		* [[Unhallowed Metropolis]] (Gaslamp Fantasy/[[Screampunk]] hybrid)
	* [[Victoriana]]		* [[Victoriana]]
	*Technically a video game but [[Thief]]		*Technically a video game but [[Thief]] (Jokes on you, there's a Thief tabletop RPG! Link on the Thief page)

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List of Gaslamp Fantasy Games

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	* [[Unhallowed Metropolis]] (Gaslamp Fantasy/[[Screampunk]] hybrid)		* [[Unhallowed Metropolis]] (Gaslamp Fantasy/[[Screampunk]] hybrid)
	* [[Victoriana]]		* [[Victoriana]]
			*Technically a video game but [[Thief]]

	==TVTropes Link==		==TVTropes Link==

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	Girl Genius created the term because its creators wanted to avoid confusion with a comic named "Steampunk", but also because it was focused on more than just advanced steam power, was not a dystopian-type "Punk" work, despite having similar aesthetics, and is heavy on mad science to the point of being basically a magical version of 19th/20th century Earth that was pretending it was actually a scientific world.		Girl Genius created the term because its creators wanted to avoid confusion with a comic named "Steampunk", but also because it was focused on more than just advanced steam power, was not a dystopian-type "Punk" work, despite having similar aesthetics, and is heavy on mad science to the point of being basically a magical version of 19th/20th century Earth that was pretending it was actually a scientific world.

			This creative genre should not be confused with the other type of gaslight fantasy, which is when an evil corporation replaces [[Warhammer Fantasy Battles\|your favorite game system]] with [[Age Of Sigmar\|a lame 40K clone]] and then spends years attempting to convince you that this is somehow an improvement.

	==List of Gaslamp Fantasy Games==		==List of Gaslamp Fantasy Games==

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+'''Gaslamp Fantasy''' (also ''Gaslight Fantasy'' or ''Gaslamp/Gaslight Romance'') is the magical equivalent to [[Steampunk]] in the array of [[Setting Aesthetics]], combining Victorian Era Earth aesthetics (if not set during that time completely) with wide-spread magic - usually in a [[Dark Fantasy]] or [[Heroic Fantasy]] level. The term is rare, having been coined by the webcomic "Girl Genius" to make itself stand out better from the Steampunk crowd, but it is a recognized [[TVTropes|trope]], and has come to be applied retroactively to many existing works of "steampunk" or "gothic horror".
-'''Gaslamp Fantasy''' is the magical equivalent to [[Steampunk]] in the array of [[Setting Aesthetics]], combining Victorian Era Earth aesthetics (if not set during that time completely) with wide-spread magic - usually in a [[Dark Fantasy]] or [[Heroic Fantasy]] level. The term is rare, having been coined by the webcomic "Girl Genius" to make itself stand out better from the Steampunk crowd.
+The key difference between gaslamp fantasy and steampunk is that steampunk focuses on alternate developments in technology (and need not have any magic at all), while gaslamp fantasy focuses on supernatural elements (and need not have any technology that didn't actually exist). Yet, the two can overlap, especially with Magitek and in settings that make use of what [[TVTropes]] describes as "Phlebotinum-Induced Steampunk" - the addition of some fantastical element or other that makes steampunk technology actually viable.
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'''Gaslamp Fantasy''' is the magical equivalent to [[Steampunk]] in the array of [[Setting Aesthetics]], combining Victorian Era Earth aesthetics (if not set during that time completely) with wide-spread magic - usually in a [[Dark Fantasy]] or [[Heroic Fantasy]] level. The term is rare, having been coined by the webcomic "Girl Genius" to make itself stand out better from the Steampunk crowd.

[[Category: Gamer Slang]] [[Category: Setting Aesthetics]]