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But they'd make great campaigns.
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These could be different timelines with the same designation, numbered. Might I suggest "Roswell"? The first timeline discovered, Roswell-1, would be where the aliens visited America - and that's why the initial Scouts named it "Roswell". Maybe this timeline is still in the fifties, only just after the visitation. The second timeline, Roswell-2, could be the Brazil/South Africa/India timeline. Set in the sixties or seventies, there's a multipolar Cold War going on. The third timeline, Roswell-3, would be the British one, set further in the future, after WWIII. There would be different parachronic situations and adventures in each. Roswell-1 would be the straightforward 'steal alien tech', with both Infinity and Centrum competing on American military bases. Roswell-2 would be the 'who to back?' and 'avoid WWIII' timeline - Infinity would like democratic Brazil & America, while Centrum would be drawn to hierarchical South Africa & India (and both would be trying to reduce prejudice). Roswell-3 would have the most advanced alien tech, but also the hardest to steal, in overweening security states (with the neat twist of it being Britain) - meanwhile, Infinity would be trying to reform the British Empire, while Centrum would be trying to co-opt it. |
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Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: New York, NY
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That sounds cool. One aspect of Infinite Worlds that I really like is that Centrum isn't a traditional 'evil' villain (there's Reich-5 for that), but one that just really thinks differently than we/Infinity.
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Would these actually satanic games have taught veteran roleplayers how to be skilled tacticians? I don't know that the learning aspect of games was ever picked up on by the opposition, but "Shadowrun trains you to be a master bank robber/Hacker" seems like something that could happen.
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Wouldn't it be more interesting to have a world where these forces of darkness infiltrate what mainstream Christian Americans of the 70s and 80s would consider free of such infiltration - gospel music, "Christian" music, "Christian Rock", Bibles, televangelist shows, and so on?
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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Given Centrum's history, their historical tradition might be largely a branch of Rhetoric all about using the past as ennobling examples. They would have had to come up with some kind of analysis of history, but it could easily be radically unlike anything Homeline would see as serous history. In fact Homelines whole tradition of academic History could easily be a prime target of centrum agents.
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Join Date: Mar 2012
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What did the romans call it?
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They had something they called History. It was primarily about worthy and unworthy moral examples. It involved the past, but it wasn't about the past. It was about examples for the present.
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Elaborating on the idea, what if there are several spiritual forces attempting to raise power in a contemporary mortal world? We get a sort of wainscot fantasy where heroes and villains alike are following esoteric rules and planting symbols and signs to channel mana to their lords. It might involve tapping into ley lines, or finding important places and adding subtle runes to lock the mana of the place to your faction. In such a setting, a church very well could fall under the sway of an evil spirit, and likewise a nature spirit that is ethically neutral might court an alliance with Greenpeace. Heck, considering that spirits have limited resources and interesting powers, they might be PCs, influencing and manipulating their followers, taking power from sacrifices and feeding it out carefully to trusted avatars... EDIT: Hmmm... symbols and signs could use something like the speed-range table... a tiny icon on a product in tens of thousands of homes could be as powerful as arranging the streets of a major metropolis into pentagonal shapes. Artifacts of eons ago may be power crystals charged with the karmic power of ancient deities, potentially tappable, but perhaps dangerous, too. Last edited by PTTG; 01-27-2016 at 04:52 PM. |
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