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Originally Posted by Bill Cameron
Has anyone ever explained the concept of the butterfly effect in alternate history to you? |
Infinite Worlds has the concept of a "High Inertia Parallel," where the initial POD has very limited butterflies. What AH.com calls a "butterfly net." Since the goal of IW is to provide settings for role playing scenarioes, the need to provide familiar points of context sometimes outweighs the need for rigorous historical analysis. Certainly Ezcalli or Nergal woud be laughable as academic counterfactuals, but that isn't going to make me deny my players the chance to fight Celtic cannibal pirates!