Victoriana is Victorian Shadowrun more or less.
GURPS: Age of Napoleon also handled the Age of Reason some IIRC (I haven't seen a final printed copy) and if it's like most historical GURPS books at least has ideas for adapting fantasy to the period.
GURPS: Goblins is fantasy Georgian England.
GURPS/Castle Falkenstein: The Ottoman Empire, though that's a literal fantasy more than D&D fantasy version.
There was a fantasy Napoleonic miniatures line/rules but I don't think they did a RPG. Flintloque or somesuch.

Some elements of WFRP seem more Gothic Horror/Age of Reason to me, a grave robbing Frankenstein dabbling in magic as much as science vibe.

Quote from: RPGPunditYes but our point is that what this thread, this one here, the one we're in, right now, the one you're posting in,  is meant to specifically address is the use of D&D-style fantasy tropes in other time periods, not just "fantastical" things in general.

So you know, if there were like Elves and Dragons etc. in Deadlands or Star Wars, then you might have a point.


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There are dragons in Star Wars. And by your definition of Elves (re: Talislanta) elves too. So the definition changes for Star Wars?

Tooting my own horn, in Dragon Earth elves evolved form humans in the Karelia area of Nortern Russia. Alongside ogres, descendents of neandertals. Tall and slender, elves do violate the rules regarding folks from the frozen north. In their case elves have a natural magical talent that keeps them warm in all but the coldest conditions.

Around 500AD the elves decided that trying to keep themselves separate from humans would eventually lead to elven extinction. So they decided to create their own niche inside human society. Integrating into human society would also make it easier to keep tab on the humans and retain control of the situation.

Of the three dominant species it is said that ...

Elves run things, but let the humans think they run things.

Dragons run things, but let the elves think they're letting the humans think they run things.

Humans run things, and don't you forget it.

Quote from: mythusmageTooting my own horn, in Dragon Earth elves evolved form humans in the Karelia area of Nortern Russia. Alongside ogres, descendents of neandertals.

Blasphemy.  All right-thinking people know that elves are the descendants of Neanderthals, not ogres.  Typical sapiens sapiens bigotry.

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Quote from: Ian AbsentiaBlasphemy.  All right-thinking people know that elves are the descendants of Neanderthals, not ogres.  Typical sapiens sapiens bigotry.

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Not true. While not hyper-gracile, elven bones are more slender than human, and share morphological traits with the older species. Furthermore, elven genes share more traits with human than they do ogre, especially in the regulatory genes.

Ogres on the other hand have a hyper-robust skeleton, and share more morphological and genetic traits with orcs (another neandertal descendent) than they do humans and elves.

All in all the evidence shows that the ancestor of ogres and orcs split off from the ancestor of humans and elves a long time before elves ever evolved.

Quote from: mythusmageOgres on the other hand have a hyper-robust skeleton, and share more morphological and genetic traits with orcs (another neandertal descendent) than they do humans and elves.

Oh! Oh! More sapiens sapiens bias.  "If it looks heavy, lumbering, ugly, and 'primitive' it came from them, not us."  Bloody typical.  I, for one, am proud of my neanderthalenthecine and gigantopithecine heritage.

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Quote from: Ian AbsentiaOh! Oh! More sapiens sapiens bias.  "If it looks heavy, lumbering, ugly, and 'primitive' it came from them, not us."  Bloody typical.  I, for one, am proud of my neanderthalenthecine and gigantopithecine heritage.

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You couldn't pass for a neanderthal at a Homo floresiensis convention.