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Old 12-30-2018, 09:43 AM   #67
malloyd
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Default Re: Alternate Versions of Inifinite Worlds

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Originally Posted by PTTG View Post
That's basically the idea of the parallel: their control, while good, is not perfect, and this guy was the first with his motivation.
Sure, it's perfectly plausible for the invention of parachronics to trigger a global disaster. The thing I object to is trying to squeeze it into the Infinity setting.

This is an issue that comes up a lot - people want to use the Infinity background, but *also* want to write plots where the players are the first to cope with some particular consequence or threat of cross-world travel. But Infinity is an *established* cross-time setting, they've necessarily dealt with all the "first time" missions and really fundamental issues already. We often aren't told what their solutions are, and many of the ones we are told make no sense (like, say, the ICops that form the campaign frame), but accepting that they exist and mostly worked anyway is an implicit requirement of the background.
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