Mr Svensson dropped me a line to remind me that I hadn’t yet posted about the wealth of informative links to be found over at Phil Masters’ Steampunk Links page. Predating Brass Goggles by a very significant amount, Mr Masters page is a treasure trove of links concerning 19th Century costume, technology and Castle Falkenstein specific information. In other words, there’s a good chance that the sheer quality of Mr Masters page, and the length of time it has been around, is probably responsible for their being a Brass Goggles at all! It seems that the page hasn’t been updated in some time, however, I cannot tell exactly how long, but the search engine page seems to talk of things being recent which occured in 2001, so that’s my best guess. A few of the links are dead, but most of them are still great and lively.

Mr Svensson also speaks very highly of the Castle Falkenstein game – a “Victorian Fantasy” roleplaying game that used playing cards instead of dice (dice not being a game for gentlepeople, after all). No doubt there’s a wealth of information on such a well thought of game to fuel dozens of posts in the future!