07-11-2016, 04:21 AM | #1 | |
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Great Powers of Frazer's World, Age of Gold, & Alchemical Baroque
GURPS Infinite Worlds is interesting for not only often telling some setting information about various worldlines but also providing a little infobox that that tells things like the local year, the great powers, the main civilizations, the TL, and so on.
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I also found the same for GURPS Thaumatology: Age of Gold, & GURPS Thaumatology: Alchemical Baroque. How would one describe their current affairs, their major civilizations and Great Powers and special descriptions for their TLs? |
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07-11-2016, 09:55 AM | #2 | |
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Re: Great Powers of Frazer's World, Age of Gold, & Alchemical Baroque
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Alchemical Baroque would be a lot harder. You're mostly looking at things that usually don't impact PC adventure sin the setting and that were left quite vague. I couldn't do more than re-read it and make guesses that wouldn't be more than re-stating what's in the pdf.
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07-11-2016, 10:49 AM | #3 | ||
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Re: Great Powers of Frazer's World, Age of Gold, & Alchemical Baroque
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Alternatively, the cats run everything.
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Re: Great Powers of Frazer's World, Age of Gold, & Alchemical Baroque
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Considering the stuff in the Terra Incognita article about Frazer's World, is there a fix on what its tech level is like or what its Great Powers would be you'd say? Because we have nations like the Russian Empire, the Triune Empire, and the Italian Papal States which are very different from OTL. I ask this because it almost sounds like, in Frazer's World, that magic has been sort of around for some time (and was sort of known) prior to it being able to be used in a way for mass production and such by the Great Powers. Does anyone have to plans expand the setting or make a GURPS PDF book about it? Age of Gold: With Age of Gold, would the Great Powers have been the US, the UK & colonies, the French, Japan, and possibly Russia? I don't quite know if Russia would've been considered a Great Power of the time. Oh one thing I'm wondering, what is a "helix plane?" I see it mentioned a lot in Age of Gold but I don't quite understand what it's supposed to look like: Quote:
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Alchemical Baroque: Well from what I remember with the Yrth worldline, it's possible to put in Great Powers for the local territory if other areas are unknown. For Alchemical Baroque, do you guys know that the local "year" would be you'd say? Heh I remember the cats. The talking cat sort of reminded me of that cat from Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Yeah for the TL I do remember for Alchemical Baroque that it is late TL 4, bordering on early TL 5, except that it will probably become TL (4+1) instead of TL 5. At least that's what is says in the book. |
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07-11-2016, 07:07 PM | #5 | |
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Re: Great Powers of Frazer's World, Age of Gold, & Alchemical Baroque
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Fw_61 Side-by-side twin rotors were pretty much a dead end in our time line as they have large disadvantages in terms of drag. It's only when you add in tilting for forward flight that the concept makes a comeback.
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