Notes from MONSTRU: Guns
You may have noticed this, but there are no guns in MONSTRU.
While guns most certainly do fit the general steampunk aesthetic, there is something about them that doesn’t fit my monster world so well.
It’s not that I hate guns or anything like that. I’m a pretty good shot, and was raised with plenty of gun time and gun experiences. I even had a Ben Franklin Air Gun that was a prized possession for years as a kid.
MONSTRU is in a WWI kind of time that features things like zeppelins, and metal helmets, and biplanes, and metal darts, tanks, bombs, and swords. Basically, most everything except guns.
Now, there are some things that function much like guns in MONSTRU. You’ve got shuriken cannons, like those found in those patriot CrowBot soldiers. There are certainly a number of crossbow variations out there. But no cannons or guns.
I think that most melee in MONSTRU would be hand-to-hand combat; involving clubs and swords, and lots of “improvised weapons” like wrenches, hammers, and drills.
I really want MONSTRU to be a hybrid fantasy world… one where I take a handful of what we all know and love (advertising, canned foods, autos) along with some things that are less familiar; mechanical men, time keepers, blood suckers, and trolls.
So, no guns. At least not anymore.
- Daniel
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