[quote=@TommyToledo]
How would you feel about steampunk-ish, Marxist Hobbits?
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Marxist hobbits are fine, but please note rule 6: 

[quote]6. Steampunk, we all know it comes up in these settings and we all know how disruptive the guy with air battleships can be.  So let’s be clear, this is a setting built around the horrors of the turn of the century, not some idealized vision of it.  Airships are as powerful as airships were in 1910 and we are limited by the same engineering problems the people of that time were.[/quote]