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Old 07-28-2022, 09:07 PM   #1
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Due to a reality quake Patchwork-1 has been transformed into a combination of as many GURPS source books as we can possibly stuff in. Here's a tentative start on the map.


Southern California: Atomic Horror
Southern Ontario and Northern Michigan: Cyberpunk Adventures
Germany: Weird War II
China: China (Boxer Rebellion)
New York: Wild Cards
Antarctica: IST (Zyrani)
Middle East: Arabian Nights (Full Cinematic Fantasy version)
Italy: Imperial Rome (Pax Romana)
American Great Plains: Horseclans
Northern California: Autoduel (Including Zombietown USA)
Mexico: Aztecs (15th Century)
Western England and Wales: Camelot
Northern England and Scotland: Dragons (Edwardian era)
London: Goblins
Canadian Western Provinces: Dinosaurs
Egypt: Egypt (New Kingdom)
North Sea: Conan (Sea replaced replaced with Aquilonia and surrounding countries)
Eastern Canada: Madlands
Greece and western Turkey: (Greece, Heroic Age)
Massachusetts: IOU
Japan: Japan (Warring Provinces Era)
Canary Islands: Atlantis (Pre Deluge)
England, East Midlands: Robin Hood
South and North Dakota: Old West (Split Arrow from Robin Hood)
Russia: Russia (1492)
France: Scarlet Pimpernel
New Mexico and Texas: Technomancer
Portmeirion Wales: The Prisoner
Florence: Hot Spots Renaissance Florence
Indiana: Age of Gold
New Delhi: Interstellar Wars
East Wales: Worminghall
Mesopotamia: The Broken Clockwork World
Louisiana: Voodoo
Moscow: Reign of Steel
Arctic Circle: Gurps Horror 2nd Edition (Children of the Ice)
Peru: Castle Falkenstein
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Old 07-28-2022, 09:35 PM   #2
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Eastern Florida and the Caribbean:Swashbucklers (pirates)

Paris:Swashbucklers (the 3 musketeers era).

The Mid-Atlantic: Atlantis

The Mid-Pacific: Cabal (Lemuria).
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Old 07-28-2022, 09:39 PM   #3
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What's Lemuria in Cabal?
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Old 07-28-2022, 09:45 PM   #4
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What's Lemuria in Cabal?
The ancient "historical" era of a Lost Continent inhabited by Blavatskian pre-humans advanced in making psionic crystal doo-dads.
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Old 07-29-2022, 12:38 AM   #5
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Oregon: Sprockets
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Old 07-29-2022, 04:42 AM   #6
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Germany: Weird War II
Italy: Imperial Rome (Pax Romana)
Russia: Russia (1492)
France: Scarlet Pimpernel
Moscow: Reign of Steel
Is there something keeping expansionist powers from trying to conquer their neighbours? If not, Weird War II Germany is likely to seize a lot of territory quite quickly until they run into Reign of Steel Moscow.
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Old 07-29-2022, 05:11 AM   #7
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Is there something keeping expansionist powers from trying to conquer their neighbours? If not, Weird War II Germany is likely to seize a lot of territory quite quickly until they run into Reign of Steel Moscow.
Followed by a global nuclear war between the winner and New Dehli, Texas and New York-Ottowa?

But yeah, settings with a lot of neighbors at wildly different tech levels depend a lot on genre convention to stay stable, whether that's abutting axioms or planets in an interstellar setting.
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Old 07-29-2022, 07:27 AM   #8
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Manitoba: Ice Age
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Old 07-29-2022, 10:44 AM   #9
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European Union - Discworld
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Old 07-29-2022, 11:28 AM   #10
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Is there something keeping expansionist powers from trying to conquer their neighbours? If not, Weird War II Germany is likely to seize a lot of territory quite quickly until they run into Reign of Steel Moscow.
I personally have no objections to the Scarlet Pimpernel teaming up with Chauvelin to run a resistance group assisted by Nimue. It's actually quite likely though that Hitler will turn much of the area around him into tributary states rather than trying to occupy it all. It's a lot of space to occupy and he lost a lot of the force he'd use to occupy it because he didn't get to take the space he was already occupying. Meaning while he has mad scientists, he's short on actual foot soldiers. Also...I have no current ideas for what should be in Poland. Nobody ever wrote a GURPS: Poland.

And I haven't figured out where Interstellar Wars, Transhuman Space and Dungeon Fantasy should go. Maybe the Balkans for Dungeon Fantasy? Maybe fill in the Adriatic Sea for more of it. That would work well for the Greek heroes. I went easy on Patchwork World by giving them one of the least aggressive supercomputers, instead of, say, Manila or Zaire.

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