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Old 03-27-2020, 01:21 PM   #1533
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Default Re: New Sci Fi Setting Seeds

Try this one...

Time travel is outside of the Infinite Worlds frame. The rule is that world's go one of three ways. FTL interstellar travel, crosstime travel, or time travel. Doctor Who does all three since the sixties as did Star Trek but I'll stick to mainly the last one.

There is a time war going on. It's fairly straightforward. Democracies versus Oligrachies, although some oligarchies wouldn't mind seeming like democracies.

The main venue is the decades between 1960 and 2090. Each side is backed by extrasolar political powers. PCs know that the Aliens are out there, but details are "need to know" and no one traveling to the past is cleared to know.

Time can be molded, if you are careful. Those lacking care and tact can get fired back to their own time and found they've made part of history frozen. They can freeze history in its original form or a disastrous new one.

The time agents have certain advantages. All time times of either side have a telepathy based Empathy and an Empathy Talent at IQ +3 . All time agents have a form of Telepathic Suggestion also boosted to the same level by the same talent, but narrowly focused to serve as a aid to disguise. Time agents can with little or no prep disguise themselves very convincingly. Time Agents call these "Bugs Bunny Disguises" because they work like his disguises. Other psi powers beyond some ESP or high levels of Luck are vanishingly rare.

Most interventions focus on social minipulations that alter people's chances of success. Creating a minor scandal in someone's family that reduces their chances of getting a break. Causing people to meet people who bring their attention to other possibilities they hadn't considered maybe changing their goals. Switching who people meet and become friends or lovers with, thus giving or denying support.

Basically, a game of social manipulation of bright intelligent people who often have higher social skills than the PCs.
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