D&D...but PUNK?? - Exploring 25 New Fantasy Genres For Your Game!
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
- You've heard of Cyberpunk or Steampunk, but what about Stonepunk? or Silkpunk? Let's explore over 25 different fantasy 'PUNK' genres that you can tie into your next Dungeons and Dragons game!
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0:00 "PUNK"
1:32 Aetherpunk
2:03 Afropunk
2:54 Apunkalypse
3:40 Atompunk
4:08 Biopunk
4:56 Bronzepunk
5:28 Capepunk
6:00 Castlepunk
6:32 Cyberpunk
7:11 Decopunk
7:41 Dieselpunk
9:10 Dreampunk
9:56 Gothic Punk
10:24 Mannerspunk
11:06 Modempunk
11:39 Mythpunk
12:15 Oceanpunk
12:44 Solarpunk
13:34 Steampunk
14:22 Silkpunk
14:56 Skypunk
15:29 Splatterpunk
16:08 Steelpunk
16:34 Stonepunk
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Now I need an Spelljammer campaing where the party visits one “punk” inspired world per session
Oh you know I'm already planning on it 😂
I am borrowing this
It would be cool if you did a series on how to implement all of them.
Don't tempt me 😎
@@TheClericCorner It's good to give in temptation sometimes, you know?
@@TheClericCorner XXX ß
@@TheClericCorner no, be tempted by this
It would be incredible for a short series on the channel! Each episode, likely just a few minutes each, to cover the aesthetic, the themes and possible plots, a couple mechanics, and a quick example. I would definitely recommend such videos.
Also, I had an idea for a Punk genre like Glass punk. I was inspired by the glass harpe instrument. I thought, this makes beautiful music, but what if everything was like this. Tall buildings made of glass, maybe using wind as transportation. Huge magnifying glass like apparatuses to heat the cities or food material. They'd be most common in deserts and coasts but with ingenuity could be almost anywhere.
OMG I love that! I'll have to jot that down for a part 2! Lol
I've designed an area like that made of crystals. It's all about psionics and crystals are used for magic and technology. I never thought about that sort of thing being considered a "punk" setting.
If all, or the majority, of buildings are made of crystal, would that mean that very loud sounds could potentially be prohibited or illegal since it could damage the infrastructure and the citizens?
Like, it could be an interesting situation where the majority of people or almost everyone has to stay in silence to preserve the city or town in order to not collapse.
@@mautastic6020¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I unironically want to see/play a Burgerpunk campaign. Think cyber or diesel punk, but Militarized restaurant chains fight wars in the streets, with independent restaurants struggling to stay on the map, all the while famine and disease plague the intercity.
Imagine having to defend a food shipment from Wendy's biker gang raids, or navigating through subway tunnels while being hunted by a Burger king Liberty Prime. Chick Fil-a churches try to be a sanctuary for the unaligned, but don't operate on Sundays, leaving them to fend for themselves. McDonalds cultist, adorned in Ronald themed colors, convert who the can and kill who they cant.
Make it happen!!
The "Good Hunting" episode from "Love, Death & Robots" is a clear example of silkpunk, imo.
Actually, yeah that's a great example!
Cattle punk is my favorite
A weird old west where steam punk cyborgs, mad scientists with bioweapons in jars, shamans summoning spirits, paper cartridge guns, never ending wars, trains burning the souls of the damned, and eastern monk masters of chi all co-exsting just not peacefully
Ooh, a devil train is so evocative!!
A setting or series like this would give JoJo a run for it's mony.
Play Deadlands
@@jakemayorquin5460 i did its part of why i like cattlepunk, unfortunetly no one i play dnd with wants to play deadlands, so i moved the story of deadlands without the mechanics
Here are my immediate thoughts on what would be great examples of these that were not mentioned:
- Apunkalypse: Revolution TV series
- Bronzepunk: Stargate (all)
- Decopunk: 5th Element
- Oceanpunk: seaQuest DSV
- Skypunk: Last Exile anime
Fantastic examples 🙌
Biopunk would be the Bioshock games if it ain't already talked about
Solar Punk could be awesome for a fantasy setting. Maybe the sun is not only the source of all technology but also the source of all magic.
I just dropped my mug 😮
Oooh! Clever!
Considering how Elves tend to be portrayed as being a very nature conscious people (unless I'm thinking of a different race). Solarpunk would be perfect for that race.
@@belovedwarrior3192true
Just play a green age campaing of dark sun. In that setting the magic comes from life and the sun.
A DND world of clashing Dieselpunk and Aetherpunk, where the Aetherpunk nations use more rare and difficult to use materials that result in cleaner energy while the Dieselpunk nations use darker and more easily accessible energy that also happen to corrupt everything.
Like , an empire using natural magic that requires years of study and training, while the Republic uses volunteer human sacrifices to achieve those purposes.
Make it happen!!
Steamed Hams punk: A punk setting based on ovens,steamers and fast food about cooking an unforgettable luncheon for the superintendent while lying about what you are serving as food while your setting is on fire. Examples include the “Steamed Hams” sketch for 22 short films about Springfield.
Am I the only one who wants to taste it and see what it might be since it sounds so good
Me, during the Biopunk section: bioshock, Bioshock say BIOSHOCK you bastard!
But I guess Decopunk fits Bioshock good as well.
Haha the best fantasy has more than one. I'd agree with you it also fits there! 😂
I ADORE this topic! I've always known that there were a ton of "punk" genres but only knew the main few, I would love for you to go into more detail on some of these! Sandalpunk, Dieselpunk, Ocean/Piratepunk, and Steampunk with its subgenres are my favorites
I might have to tackle those first then! ☺️ Oceanpunk is one of mine too!
@@TheClericCorner I'm actually working on a campaign setting right now where most of the idea is that the world is mostly ocean with scattered islands, actual campaign idea is sea monster hunting, sunken wrecks and ruins, and triton cities and the actual land society is very steampunk, kind of a Dishonored sort of setting so if you did decide to further explore Oceanpunk it'd be a big help actually!
@@The_Anthologist love it! Sounds like a blast!!
Wow this video is great! It gave me so much inspiration for a game I'm making. You can even combine any number of these genres, imagine the possibilities!
A million times yes! You get it! 😂
In my current campaign setting, Skypunk was a thing of the long ancient past, floating cities raised by ancient magic from a human civilization willing to challenge the Gods and overthrow them. Upon which they failed, giving the more traditional D&D setting of the current day, though with the implementation of Furnace Trains (trains that run on the power of a fire Elemental) things could get a little cattlepunk, maybe.
These flavor videos are just awesome. Not matter the topic and even if I can't use all of it. It jreally helps get the brain juices flowing (not in a splatterpunk way though).
Bonus points for the pun 😂
Nice, glad they fail
14:51 Batman Ninja is a very good example.
The " The Great Wall " movie definitely an example of Silkpunk. Strongly recommend to watch that, mid-low type of movie but fun to watch if you wanna spend time with friends etc.
I find it funny that for Aetherpunk you used mostly Kaladesh art, but didn't mention Kaladesh
Silkpunk- Iron Mask (2019), Forbidden Kingdom (2008)
Another example of Ocean punk is Seaquest DSV
Guides on most of these (not the splatterpunk one, that's gonna be too violent) would be awesome. Great video. Thank you!
Yeah, that one would be tough to keep in community guidelines 😂. But absolutely!
Splatterpunk could be done in a similar way to Biopunk but focused more on the blood then all of the biology. It could also be a way to include some of the darker magics and races like demons
Truly one of your best videos!! I feel the exploration of ideas and social topics is something D&D doesn't get enough of. The Punk genres allow for this creativity and expansion to the depth of the world you may be playing in. I'm fond of Lunar Punk, Diesel Punk and Bio Punk myself.
Thank you friend! Completely agree! So much potential that is yet to be tapped into!!
I was planning on writing a space opera campaign for my table after the current one wraps up and this video gave me so many plot bunnies. 🙂
Yay! Good luck with the new campaign! ☺️
5:16 you say "they didn't know what to do with them", but likely they had ideas for it. Their problem was that they didn't have good enough materials and craftmanship to have a functional steam engine, just like fusion reactors today, where we know the theory of how it's supposed to work but we don't know how to make a stable structure for it
Casually discovered your channel with this video (well being a D&D player means it is not so casual, thank the algorithm) and I think this is a treasure! Keep up the good work!
Thank you! Got a fun one for you this Thursday!
@@TheClericCorner Can't wait! 😁
Not seeing Kaladesh on the aetherpunk list threw me for a loop.
I really had no idea there were so many punks. All these genres are inspiring me for my next campaign! Thank you!
In a weird sense I feel like punk in this context has a similar meaning to core
I think it's a good take!
My best idea is a world similar to Myst and Riven in which books are portals to demiplanes.
While airing on Cartoon Network, I jokingly referred to Storm Hawks as "Crystal Punk" due to its crystal-based technologies and aesthetic not too dissimilar to that found in steampunk.
Awesome video! I can see how much effort was put in and it really shows. I noticed a small error at 16:34 for Steelpunk (for the viewers watching too) but the screenshot where we see Tom Cruise in an exosuit is from the film "Edge of Tomorrow" not "The day after tomorrow" (easy to mix up titles :))
Awesome explanations again
Thank you!
the french film Ridicule is an excellent view of what Mannerspunk could be, with jockeying for position at court and the complex role of intellect and especially wit being central.
A good example of silkpunk is the Dandelion Dynasty book series... it
I would say 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow' is a great example of Decopunk/Dieselpunk.
Gotham (the city) from Batman has a lot of Deco influences in it's buildings. So for the buildings at least you could look to that series too. Especially some of the older cartoons and movies
@@belovedwarrior3192 BTAS certainly does.
For silk punk, try the “Good Hunting” episode of Love Death and Robots (beware that episode is veeeeery dark lol)
(Insert Genre)-Punk Unique Character ideas, as exploring the PUNK genres a little bit more with PCs. That sounds like a great video series. Like, Solar-Punk warlock ideas, or the Dreamer-Punk Bards...
You and I are on the same page! 😉
the magic school bus counts under nanopunk is a statement that i did not expect to hear when clicking on this video
oh god im obsessed with all of these genres now. iron giant can also count under decopunk imho!
Haha but you aren't mad 😂
I hadnt heard of dreampunk before and I am now already obsessed.
You see my problem! 😂
The difference with Herons steam engine and later steam engines or for example the Otto motor was the presence of printed books and magazines. With mass-printed books new technology could reach many more people which could develop an idea further. Also steam power was known for hundreds of years again (maybe still) before James Watt refined it to work more efficiently - and this was really what gave rise to locomotives and so on.
Possibly the best example of castlepunk in my opinion is the Fate/Grand Order Camelot movie 1 and 2 where camelot has been built in Jerusalem and is a Castlepunk dystopia.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a very interesting blend too.
Thank you for the advice and info about this, because I have been working on a world building project but have trouble finding a type of punk to make it work
For Silkpunk I suggest you look toward Manhwa about cultivation such The Ultimate of All Ages, its fits really well and can be adapted with a little out of the box methods.
apunkalypse sounds like such a cool thing for a party who is down for the potential survival aspects, im just imagining the mental image of massive dust storms in a massive city, the party has scavanged together some vehicles and theyre having a rough time finding fuel (could be crystals that were created with forgotten enchantments)
id hate to limit choices but itd be hard to fit druids into this kind of setting since nature is so destroyed...
i feel like ud also have to veto things thatd create food or water so u do have to care about rationing food
altho i do feel itd be really cool to see druids trying to save and grow remaining places of nature, the world being so desolite and dying to one day wander apon a small forest tended to by druids and fae spirits
To add to the stonepunk reference list Dinotopia (2002) tv show would be a good reference too
Would LOVE to see videos where you talk about homebrew, reskinning and mechanics for some of these settings! I ran some dnd games in a cyberpunk setting, and basically all I did was use the Modern Magic UA and rename magic to "hyper tech"
Oh yeah yeah! One of these times I'll get around to using that document 😂
Two excellent Decopunk series are Dan Willis' The Arcane Casebook and Larry Corriea's Hard Magic.
I like the idea of Budupunk where everthing is swamps and all the magic is vudu or chaman kind whit a lot of mithycal creatures or monster from swamps
Such a fun one!!
I see D&D in modes like Afropunk, Punkistan, and Meso-punk (and parallels based on other cultures) as amazingly cool, and I think such games would be a LOT of fun to play in and run.
I worry that any degree of research and respectfulness I would endeavor to bring to such a setting (particularly as DM) would always risk falling short, therefore being a problem.
I actually have a sub-genre of Solarpunk, which is called Soviet-Solarpunk. It’s basically Solarpunk with a Soviet Union (literally any leader of the USSR or Warsaw Pact Members) kind of Aesthetic.
A Stonepunk game in a time precivilization would be pretty cool. With Tribal characters setting up the first city like so many mythical stories show.
Yeah! The true beginnings of your world!
Very interesting, but here are some precisions/rectifications. The Girl in the Fireplace is definitely Clockwork! And Teslapunk is much earlier than Atompunk. And Sharowrun would probably be somewhere between Elfpunk and Mythpunk... Inspiration for Silkpunk would be the Dandelion novel cycle. Anyway, good work, thanks for that!
Not sure which genre would it be, maybe portalpunk or mythpunk, but in a lot of present Korean web novels and web toons often have a setting of supernatural game like aspects encroaching into the modern world in an almost apocalyptic sense.
Like everything being normal and a portal opens, a meteor falls, a great deity appears, or everyone suddenly getting a psychic message that grants a certain percent rpg classes like powers, but at the same time bringing monsters, dungeons, and other horrors into the world. This destroys the basic political and organizational structures, devolving into modern feudal or guild based systems.
working on a amalgamation homebrew campaign of eberron and ravnica but including alot of these themes based on regional/guild concepts. sky island, underwater cities, undercities, and other various magical types
this sounds really interesting !
One of my personal faves, what I've seen called Radpunk or Chernobylpunk. Radation. Wastelands, mutated monsters, strange anomalies, irradiated zones, paranormal stuff. Think Fallout, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., or Metro 2033.
I'd seriously LOVE to have mechanics for a cyberpunk infusion into D&D, as I've been dreaming of doing two separate campaigns with elements of it in them. One based on the Phyrexians of MtG & the other of course based loosely on the Sprawl trilogy and CP2077...
For Silk Punk I think "The Exalted" RPG would have some elements or the anime series "Visions of Escaflowne".
For Capepunk and Oceanpunk, there is a series of books by Brandon Sanderson called the Reckoners, where super heroes (called epics) are corrupted by their own power, and the second book explores New York, but the epic living there has caused water to rise, making the people live on rooftops and survive through gardens underneath them. I highly recommend that series
Absolutely 🙌
Zaun and piltover from league of legends is very diesel-mage punk type setting
Yeah, diesel/aether is definitely what I would call it 👍
Silkpunk examples off the top of my head:
Saiyuki
Dragonball
Samurai Champloo
Gintama
Outlaw Star (while considered a Space Western, most of the galaxy has an Asian aesthetic)
I’ve been working on a cyberpunk setting myself, would love to see you explore the genre!
Nice runthrough
I'm currently writing through some concepts on what I'm calling InfoPunk which is the idea of Information Ontology and the possible reality of beliefs, which would overlap dreampunk and cyberpunk and maybe Nanopunk
Think Meinong's Jungle come manifest, or platonic and mathematical realism.
Thanks for all the awesome inspiration on the different punk genres, it’s just what my story needed.
The punk genres I’m going to be using in my story as setting aesthetics are:
Cattlepunk
Gothicpunk
Biopunk
Modempunk
Aetherpunk
Dreampunk
The main genres of my story are:
Supernatural/cyber-tech/cosmic horror and dark mystery with some elements of soft sci-fi/science fantasy
Silk punk : Iron Widow - Great read!!!!
Maybe a suggested reading list for the various punk genres? Like " Mainspring" for clockpunk, " The Difference Engine" for steampunk, or " Hardwired" for cyberpunk..
This is a well done video!
I go over readings in the focused videos in the playlist!
I'm thinking a world in which each "punk" genre operates along class and race lines. Dieselpunk dwarves, solarpunk druids, aetherpunk mages in one country and biopunk mages in another, things like that. Maybe Solarpunk is the highest spiritual ideal, but then aetherpunk, biopunk, dieselpunk, steampunk, and possibly even atompunk being implemented by less spiritually focused races or nations.
I always thought that cyberpunk just wasn’t for me, but now I want to try settings for nearly all of these.
I would love it if you did a more in-depth video on doing Cape-Punk in D&D!!
Such a good one!!
@@TheClericCorner it's one of my favorite genres- but I didn't even know there was a term for it! So thank you for the info and ideas as always!!
@@charmonster7680 my pleasure! Thanks for telling me your favorites so I know what to focus on!
Totally inspired now to do a hybrid Oceanpunk/Skypunk world where the only dryland is floating cities with minimal resources dependent on undersea and floating farms for food and resources, solar power in the sky, tidal generation on surface or geothermal undersea. Social/political power focused separately based on a pseudo-feudal caste system: nobles in the sky, merchants/serfs on surface and peasants/slaves bellow. Ok, just great, how am I supposed to focus on work now? #screwedbyimagination
Best kind of screw 😎
Kinda curious about Stonepunk, you mentioned that it takes place in the far far past, but cited HZD, which takes place in the far far future.
So is there actually two Stonepunks: Prehistoric and Post-history Apocalyptic?
Could you do a Video about Unique Ideas for Clockwork Sorcerers. One idea I already had was to be a somekind of gardian of Balance between good and evil, dark and bright. Like yin and Yang.
I think that Raypunk has even more facets than you mentioned. It touches on several of the genres you mention, but it has its own specific character...
It evolved out of atompunk, as a kind of extrapolation forward through quantum physics understanding and psychadelic experiences.
It's fundamentally optimistic. It can touch on a quasi-spiritual, multidimensional feel, the bending of space-time, technology that plays with reality itself, superbly alien worlds and beings, fundamental tones and absolute distances.
Which can fit really well with DnD
Excited to see your silkpunk deepdive
If you want a tour of these "punk" fantasy sub genres and are into a little musical storytelling, the New Albion series from Paul Shapera is amazing! It starts with a Steampunk Opera and goes through a strange multi-generational journey ending with Fairypunk! One of my absolute favorite pieces of media I've ever consumed.
I am now making a campain which is unknowingly to the players happening in a something I could call VRpunk? Simulationpunk? Think Sword Art Online/ Log Horizon.
I would indeed love to see videos on ideas to implement those punk genres !
The world I'm running (still just starting to) has solarpunk influences but, outside of the "no racism, no discrimination, queer normative" stuff, I have trouble using the solarpunk aspects, and I would love to have more ideas !
A lot of others punk genres sound really interesting as well.
I'd say Otome dating sims and otome Isekai's are the modern evolution of Mannerspunk
You should definitely look into City of Mist. I think you could make some excellent videos off of it, with how interested you are in myths.
Been coming up with a universe with multiple punk genres mixed into one, each universe would have an earth and that earth would have either a different abundance of resources and/or a different outcome during a certain period in time that defined and shaped that world into said genre, eventually a character from each world could travel through portals to other worlds, mainly one world that was destroyed and is a wacky and unexplainable mix of every other world with various dangerous machines and cybernetic people and creatures maybe
So far the worlds i have are: Aetherpunk, Clockpunk, Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Teslapunk, Atompunk, Solarpunk, Cyberpunk, Biopunk and Nanopunk
I might add a few more and have been trying to see if i can make up one with a strange alien resource that acts like fuel but has some sort of other properties, maybe touching the stuff can mutate a person perhaps? Still working on it
Bioshock could potentially be another example of Biopunk.
Johnny Mnemonic and the Shadowrun ttrpg would be good examples of Cyberpunk
A lot of korean and chinese historical fantasy dramas are silk punk!
A great example of Decopunk would be the movie "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow."
I like to imagine a alternate reality where each planet got to space through different "punk" genres.
Flying saucers powered by steam and whatever.
And Earth being the richest planet because of how diamonds are actually more common in the universe than wood.
Then circuitry with metals that absorb magic instead of electricity but interacts with electricity which some people take advantage of.
Call it "Blendpunk" or something like that.
Perfect for a spell jammer setting!
I needed this lmao, thank you for your content!! Though, I would wounder where avatar ( blue people lol) would take within punk culture.
Solar punk for sure! Thank you so much!!
Totally would be cool to go further into all of them... except for solarpunk
Jeez... there are more! Wow. Great video btw
I was thinking of a steampunk post apocalyptic western setting, the previous age was the height of arcana and basically aetherpunk
Please make a solar pump campaign guide!
The best!! 🙌
I will absolutely take 25 videos explaining how to incorporate each one of these.
Godpunk would also fit under American Gods because it's an urban fantasy genre that focuses solely on the interactions between gods and mortals Percy Jackson would be an example of this.
Was actually thinking urban fantasy mixed with skypunk
This was fun!
You mentioned a lot of punks have never even heard before
And I am a punk connoisseur!
I'm going to be rewatching this video many times to take inspiration. I'd love more in-depth per-punk videos.
The audio was a bit odd in some spots - the start of a sentence was jarringly louder than the rest. Didn't detract from the message of the video though.
Oh so sorry to hear that! I will for sure look into that! But thank you!
As always, now I have inspiration for one shots I need to do. Would love a deep dive (pun intended) into oceanpunk but also solarpunk. Maybe druids in a modern or future setting
I mean...why not both? 🤷
@@TheClericCorner I mean yeah also true!
Another example of cyberpunk combined with fantasy is the Shadowrun games! Also, Mannerspunk sounds like it can be melded with the other "Punks?"
Absolutely! The funniest part I think is mixing and matching some of these!
@@TheClericCorner I *do* like mixing and matching. Also I'm somewhat surprised you didn't mention the Shadowrun setting in your video. Also also, an example of Dreadpunk might be Bloodborne? That may be an entirely different genre, so take that with a grain of salt.
Solarpunk, def want a good example of this!
Oh, and just to note: even if it's spoken about 'punk' styles applied to D&D adventures and/or campaigns, these ambientations would also work on other TTRPGs, such as Pathfinder or SWN, to name a few.
What a great vid! Immediately gets my worldbuilder brain going.
I am working on a world that is Aetherpunk/Castlepunk and has distinct areas of Skypunk, Oceanpunk, and whatever Desertpunk is.. (Cattlepunk? Apunkalypse?). Is Elementpunk a thing?
If you believe in yourself and with a tiny pinch of magic, all your dreams can come true
i feel like the first Dishonored game is a good example of DieselPunk
i also feel like Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West are great examples of SolarPunk
What about Pumpkaboo? A spooky setting filled with Pokemon?