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If you are interested you might want to add the fundamentals of your creations to the GURPS wiki. It will make it a lot easier to keep the overall settings straight. I've some some of the basics with Five Earths, All in a Row and five reference pages. Note they all link back to this thread so you can skip some of the details. Last edited by maximara; 08-02-2018 at 09:19 AM. |
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Infopunk Earth is right smack dab in Homeline's backyard of Q5 but none of the Earths is in Centurm's back yard of Q8. Worse yet Steampunk Earth is in Reich-5's Q3 backyard This puts Infinity at a slight disadvantage with regards to Centurm and Reich-5 but for them to take advantage of the situation they need to have a rocket or magical means that can take them to Infopunk Earth. But all that is not the fun part. Infopunk Earth was an Echo of our Earth until December 21, 2012 which means all GURPS books published that year or earlier exist on that Earth as well - including GURPS Infinite Worlds. On a related note if Fantasy Earth is using Roma Arcana as one of its baselines then it should, like that reality, have Mana: normal (low in cities), mana based spells require Pacts with local spirits. Remember Isis does not grant Power Investiture but Magery instead. In a No mana world she couldn't function like this. Simply if analogs to Alan Scott and Giovanni "John" Zatara exist in addition to Doctor Fate and Captain Marvel then the mana level of Dieselpunk Earth should be low with spots of normal levels. I think that the Spectre was powered by God even in the Golden Age so him running around would have no bearing on the mana level. Last edited by maximara; 08-03-2018 at 06:10 AM. |
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Pulps actually continued clear into the 1950s but paper shortages during the war put a major crimp on their output in the 1940s. The 1957 liquidation of American News Company is often marked as the end of the pulp era; it also helped kill many comic lines printed by the smaller companies.
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I've reread the thread and added material to the GURPS wiki though I changed a few things to match some of the reference material.
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Truth be told, while homosexuality is less blatantly stigmatised in Japan, I always got the feeling most consumers of anime & manga there only like it in the sense of "girl on girl is hot", hence why you often see lesbian or bisexual females so much. Not that I have a problem with it really. And frankly, a lot of East Asian cultures are often more conservative culturally in some ways, for better or worse. Quote:
EDIT: I'm wondering something, since all the magic in-setting is based on psi-stuff, does that mean none mana isn't being used? Well for Infinite Worlds, wouldn't there be the possibility it might get things wrong enough? Like it's a "based on a true story" sort of thing almost? Last edited by warellis; 08-03-2018 at 03:25 PM. |
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OK, I made a few small edits, like correcting the mana level of Fantasy Earth (no mana - all native 'magic' on all these worlds is psi-based, which I'm not sure the infobox has an entry or notation for, but some of them have some mana anyway, that isn't used natively).
I think I posted infoboxes for each of the Five Earths in this thread somewhere, though they may be out of date.
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