Cool Backstory Syndrome

[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by MKMcArtor

If a published campaign setting places its history chapter in the first half of the book I put it down and don't look at it again.*

Ow!

My usual fantasy setting doesn't have a history at all. But my SF setting is history first, and I can't think of another way to do it other than technology first. There's no way I could put the history after describing the colonies and the Empire because they hardly make sense without their history. Colonies are what they are and where they are because of the history of emigration. The Empire is what it is because of the destruction of Earth, the destruction of Mayflower, the destruction of New Aachen, and the Formation Wars. The whole setting is what it is because of the way it got to be, and it would be much harder to describe it the other way around.

I guess that's one sale I'm not making.