When Magic and Science meet the Neolithic Past! Let’s deep dive into what the Stonepunk genre is, and how to apply it to our own stories and games!
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0:00 Stonepunk
1:04 Fantasy In Stone
4:18 From Punk to Primordial
6:34 Kindling the Flame
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I want to ride a T-Rex in this setting
Literally working on a project based in a stone punk fantasy world. More Magical Girl than DnD, but still a fun setting to work in.
Finally! Now we're getting primal here!
Although horizon zero Dawn doesn't technically count as Stone punk but more or less a dystopian post-apocalyptic form of solar punk and cyberpunk techno primitivist type of genre.
🎶 Flintstones meet the Flintstones
Theyre the modern stone age fa-ma-ly 🎶
Steelpunk ?
It looks like some islander orcs I have in my campaign world would be the perfect setting for a stone punk campaign!
3:11 – None of these movies have anachronistic elements you are talking about. George in Jungle is just a Tarzan, music in My Brother Bear is nondiegentic, and Planet of Apes is basically postapocalipse set after age of humans. There is nothing anachronistic in it!
And Horizon series is… barely stonepunk if you ask me. And I'm sure that Monster Hunter isn't!
Hear me out. Woolly Loxodon. Triceratops Minotaur. Sabertooth Leonin. Lizardfolk could be a huge variety of different dinosaurs. And so on.
Thank u so much!!! Ive always wanted to do a campaign like this,and now I can!!! Thanks!!!
How can we adapt Dungeons & Dragons classes for a stonepunk world?
Planegea looks like such a fun campaign setting, I only saw one channel cover it "in depht" (Jorphdan) so maybe it would be worth a deep dive if you're feeling like it.
The video turned out amazing! So happy to have been able to work on this
Another good one for stonepunk/age fantasy has to be Fire and Ice. It is an 1980s animated movie that has comic book prequel. There are some metal weapon in it so bed aware of that.
Netflix’s He-Man is totally Stone Punk too. I like learning about all the different branching Punk genres, I’d never heard of this one, but really love Stone Punks inclusion now. I could see a Stone Punk/Steam Punk story working really well together. Also, its really cool to know that we’ve past the digital age and now live in The Age of Glass. Fiber Optics, Touch Screens, Storm Windows, Bulletproof Panes, Safety Glass, and even Construction Glass so strong and flexible that entire buildings can be made from it without fear of it shattering under the building’s own mass. Perhaps Glass Punk is going to be the next Punk Genre sibling.
I do have to point this out though, it’s a common misconception that we cant replicate what our ancestors did (building things like the Great Pyramids, Stone Henge, or china’s Great Wall). We don’t know all the methods or techniques our ancestors used to do it in their time, but we are able to do similar/comparable feats of construction with modern tech. The issue is one of cultural motivation (which could be a massive plot in a Stone Punk setting). If a culture has a good enough reason and the resources, than they can built The Tower of Babel in ancient times, and the Burj Khalifa in modern. There’s also very compelling evidence that indicates that our definition of “Advanced” is very much influenced by industrial mass production. Ancient people were extremely advanced in other ways than what we consider today. For instance, ancient Egyptians knew how to perform life saving brain surgery. We do it much safer now, and have a WAAAAY better range of medicines to use, but they still did it. And that’s a very compelling foundation for a Stone Punk world.
One of my all-time favorite films is Quest for Fire, so anything leveraging such primordial settings sounds great to me! 🤠
A-loy!! Not alloy!
A Stonepunk story that I am really digging right now is a worldbuilding project here on YouTube called Dead Gods by Matt Rhodes, which is all about a prehistoric civilization before a devastating natural disaster wiped it out.
Heck yeah. I'd love to play in a game with a unique vibe like this. Very cool. And great video!
7:56 Yeah! Planegea!
Pathfinder setting is so kitchensink it's the first one I thought of because it has plenty of stonepunkish flavours.
Though technically addressed but Meso-American is another great inspiration for stone punk. I really wish Aztech Forgotten Gods was a good game but its a great representation of Sci-Fi Stone Punk.
Hell yeah, Planegea is amazing
Very disappointed to see you perpetuating pseduoscience Riker. We know exactly how and why Aztecs and Egyptians built their monuments. For Egypt we even have written contemporary records.
Thinking quickly, the barbarian constructs a rudimentary megaphone using only some string, a squirrel, and a megaphone.
7:37 you also used an image from the Ixalan setting at 4:03 and wotc put out a simple free guideline for how to get started running one of those, called "Plane Shift: Ixalan." I didn't consider it Stonepunk going in because of the pirates and such but it lines up with your definition and examples to a T. You've got the merfolk shamans who want to go extreme levels of living off the land without much technology. Then you have the mayan and aztec inspired sun empire who is the middle ground between the merfolk's way of life and the "modern" ways of the two remaining factions, the dusk legion and the pirate coalition. The main character that we follow among the merfolk is a young upstart rebelling against the old ways and the elders that uphold them. The main character we follow among the sun empire is a woman who was accomplished so much for her country that the townspeople already refer to her as "speaker," basically the spiritual leader of their people who is only 2nd to the emperor. However, the emperor keeps pushing back when he'll grant the title, in order to keep squeezing out more favors from her. She eventually comes into contact with people who are strong independent magic users who don't need no emperor and learns from them, eventually returning with the confidence to not only tell the emperor to piss off, but also bring about a new technological age to her people doing what a speaker does best.
The next addition to the setting then repeats this idea of melding ancient traditions and technologies, as they find ancient underground ruins that keep leading deeper and deeper down until they find another world hidden away from the surface. The people there are the ancestors of most of those on the surface (save for the merfolk), who had advanced technology (via unobtanium from the gods) but never lost touch with their admiration for the gods because they were literally closer to them inside the world's core. You also have an ancient threat resurfacing in the form of a "betrayer god" that wants to kill the other gods to ensure that this, the 5th world, will never be wiped clean, like the 4 before it had been. So you've once again got that conflict of "is it better to change and, if so, how? Do we keep advancing how we were before finding the hidden core? Do we accept the ways of our ancestors? Do we do the opposite and side with the "betrayer" to ensure we and our descendants aren't replaced on a whim of the gods? Are the more options!???
It'd be interesting seeing the comparison to some of these settings when the punk part is changed.
There is also multiple MTG world, as well as Chult from Toril
I am littlerally was writing thos setting!
1:57 Pyramids are rooms stacked atop each other, which got smoothed out. As for no bodies, it's called graverobbing, because golden teeth and powdered mummies were very desired for at that point.
Okay let's get rid of some misconceptions that were said at the start
1) The EGYPTIAN pyramids were built as tombs. If you're wondering where the mummies are: grave robbers who probably sold it to Europeans for medicine or paint (yes really)
2) The sandstone that the pyramids are built out of is extremely soft. It was cut by placing sand where they needed to cut and using copper tools to create friction as sand on a molecular level is much harder than sandstone (they'd obviously have to replace the coppers tools)
3) they learnt to build the pyramids from trial and error the first few pyramids have collapsed peaks but they learnt from their mistakes
4) They didn't use pulleys they just used ropes around the cubes and a team of people and specialised ramps to help get the blocks in place
5) This took years obviously
We know all this because this would take an awful lot of logistics so they wrote it down
And before anyone talks about hyper diffusion (which was thought up by the Nazi's to justify their racism) a square based pyramid shape is one of the most stable shapes to pile stuff in and ancient people were not stupid and could learn and adapt, the intelligence of homosapiens hasn't increased dramatically from then we just discovered more stuff.
What is great about the pyramids isn't the technology that was used to build them but the amount of dedication and logistics that it took to build them.
Here is a cool punk genre. NASA Punk. Optimistic space age inspired by artist imagination of space exploration from the mid 20th Century combined with a modern NASA aesthetic.
A mix between Star Trek Enterprise and Star Trek The Original Series.
Whilst many Punk Genres take a more cautionary tale, NASA Punk is full blown optimism, encouraging the audience to let go of our petty grievances, conflicts. However the Punk could be a dismantling of this idea. The story could be centred on people who see the flaws in this shiny optimism and wish to address and confront the proverbial elephant in the room. Perhaps this future is far bleaker than it seems.
Potential TTRPG systems could be Traveller, and FATE.
We'll have a Gay Ol' Time!
Other DND book stuff relating to Stonepunk includes Dr. Dhrolin’s Dictionary of Dinosaurs and its upcoming sequel, Professor Primula’s Portfolio of Paleontology, both by PaleoGames
Would the Zeno Clash series count as Stonepunk in a way? It's… hard to strictly classify into a genre, so i am hesitant of directly associating it with an outright nme. But it's a fascinating series that i do encourage you to check out.
Most inhabitants are freaks, mutants, monsters and chimaeras with hardly a concept of "humanity" and even central government, law or currency. Most clothing and buildings are constructed or repaired with "whatever gets the job done/looks nice" , like a hookah made out of a snake and mannequin legs for the platform to stand on. Or putting a thick stick on a small anvil with a face on it for a rudimentary hammer.
There's still elements of more developed… things here and there, like mechanisms, constructs, glass, pipes, chains and teapots, plus early forms of ballistics (except in the prequel Clash: Artifacts of Chaos, which still has one single law) but the Zenos are largely quite primitive.
Strongly recommend looking it up.
@1:56 for anyone interested into learning how and why the Pyramids of Giza were built @miniminuteman covers this topic and the following conspiracy theories with archaeological evidence and real studies made on the subject. Also no disrespect or insult to the creator of this video here, just a word of advice it doesn’t hurt to double check your thinking and honestly I do get it because I’ve done it to.
your lips and the audio is not exactly in sync x_x
Not sure if the 2018 movie 'Alpha' would constitute "punk", but is definitely set in the stone age. A boy is separated from his tribe and left for dead after a hunting accident, teams up with an injured wolf to survive together and return home. I would imagine for the time period, canine domestication would seem like an incredible innovation.
Scientists absolutely do have solid ideas of how the pyramids and like monuments were built throughout history. We even have documentation from some of the civilizations (ie. Egypt) about the construction.
You didn't mention Turok