09-03-2017, 10:31 AM | #1 |
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Our World Is A Myth Parallel
Honestly it's not that weird if real people here are pure myth in other worlds so I'm breaking this off from Weird Parallels. If, say our world existed in Infinite Worlds then Homeline would be one of our myth parallels after all. There could actually be a fair bit of that. George Washington as a completely fictional character in a setting where the American Revolution failed for example. Or what about a setting where Edison and Tesla are characters out of a series of science fiction novels?
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09-03-2017, 11:03 AM | #2 |
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Re: Our World Is A Myth Parallel
I think we're getting into what Heinlein called "transfictionality" in The Number of the Beast - everybody is fictional in somebody else's universe.
I've used the concept myself in fanfic: the first time a multiverse traveler visited Fenspace, the people who greeted him had read stories about him previously - mutually-contradictory stories, so they weren't sure which traveler had arrived, but they had a pretty good idea who he was and what he could do.
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09-03-2017, 12:29 PM | #3 |
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Re: Our World Is A Myth Parallel
When I ran my campaign Gods and Monsters, its premise was that the characters of fiction and film from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century could be real, but their creators were not. So, I said, Adolf Hitler really exists, but there is no Leni Riefenstahl.
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09-03-2017, 12:36 PM | #4 | |
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Re: Our World Is A Myth Parallel
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09-03-2017, 01:15 PM | #5 |
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Re: Our World Is A Myth Parallel
That was the idea. However, John H. Watson had Arthur Conan Doyle as his literary agent for his accounts of Holmes's cases.
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09-04-2017, 02:42 PM | #6 |
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Re: Our World Is A Myth Parallel
So there would have been writers that were never heard from on this Earth, creating their own new sets of characters . . . That could get meta VERY quickly.
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09-04-2017, 03:30 PM | #7 |
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Re: Our World Is A Myth Parallel
Not necessarily. That world could have fewer writers, books, or prefer more mundane fiction like romance. I wouldn't know if the best seller's list full of romances in that world included only authors that don't exist in any other parallel.
While it might matter to characters and players that love that genre, I have trouble imagining how impactful it could be on a game. You have Dracula, Frankenstein, etc.!
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09-04-2017, 04:36 PM | #8 | |
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09-04-2017, 07:01 PM | #9 |
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Re: Our World Is A Myth Parallel
I only saw the movie, so there's quite a bit I know they left out or altered.
The movie's supers were more over the top superhuman than Batman, and I'm not one to say that he's a truly human character. But yeah, only two over the top impossible characters. Though I do wonder why a public wouldn't fictionalize supers. We fictionalize real people all the time. Biopics, and "based on a true story" movies and books are usually at least half fiction.
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09-04-2017, 08:27 PM | #10 |
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Re: Our World Is A Myth Parallel
The Internet.
The thing that makes our world a myth parallel is the Internet. No other worlds have it, for some reason. |
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