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First world war & pathfinder mark me interested.
ooooh good one! and Theodore Roosavelt!
Might as well throw in H.G. Wells, or Edgar Rice Burroughs and John Carter while you're at it...
With the hut of Baba Yaga, and World War I era Earth, I can't help but see this.
Rasputin must be EXTERMINATED.
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And out of curiosity how would your player react in meeting a young Iosif Vissarionovič Džugašvil?
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And out of curiosity how would your player react in meeting a young Iosif Vissarionovič Džugašvil?
In a sense of irony... I'd hit him in the back of the head, with an axe.
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In a sense of irony... I'd hit him in the back of the head, with an axe.And out of curiosity how would your player react in meeting a young Iosif Vissarionovič Džugašvil?
And this is why I really don't want my PF game to get to close to the real world.
I don't want my fantasy characters dealing with real life. I don't want to get into dealing with the evils of Tsarist Russia that set up the conditions for the Communist Revolution.
Why, communism was the best thing that ever happened to Russians, just go and ask a few senior citizens in Moscow. :)
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And this is why I really don't want my PF game to get to close to the real world.
I don't want my fantasy characters dealing with real life. I don't want to get into dealing with the evils of Tsarist Russia that set up the conditions for the Communist Revolution.
As long as you recognize that almost everything in this thread, including the latest round of kitchen sink famous-name-tossing, is purely speculative. So far the indication from Paizo hasn't been that PCs are going to be swooping in to rewrite world history as you describe above, or, you know, assassinate a young Hitler on the Western Front so WWII never happens.
As long as you recognize that almost everything in this thread, including the latest round of kitchen sink famous-name-tossing, is purely speculative. So far the indication from Paizo hasn't been that PCs are going to be swooping in to rewrite world history as you describe above, or, you know, assassinate a young Hitler on the Western Front so WWII never happens.And this is why I really don't want my PF game to get to close to the real world.
I don't want my fantasy characters dealing with real life. I don't want to get into dealing with the evils of Tsarist Russia that set up the conditions for the Communist Revolution.
You party pooper.....I enjoy kitchen sink famous name tossing speculation..
It would be so cool for the players to be at Beersheba, Le Hammel, or Mont St Quentin.
... Colonel Sanders!
... what? I like chicken!
You party pooper.....I enjoy kitchen sink famous name tossing speculation..
Hey now -I played ball, too! I somehow brought Hitler into the conversation. Hahaha.
You party pooper.....I enjoy kitchen sink famous name tossing speculation..Hey now -I played ball, too! I somehow brought Hitler into the conversation. Hahaha.
Yes my mind leapt at a couple of scenarios of dropping the PCs into the trenches during the Battle of Passchendaele or Ypres to kill a certain Austrian who joined the German army and was promoted to Corporal.
Yes my mind leapt at a couple of scenarios of dropping the PCs into the trenches during the Battle of Passchendaele or Ypres to kill a certain Austrian who joined the German army and was promoted to Corporal.You party pooper.....I enjoy kitchen sink famous name tossing speculation..Hey now -I played ball, too! I somehow brought Hitler into the conversation. Hahaha.
Wouldn't stop World War II. Might cut the Nazis out of it, but the Germans were mighty ticked off about the end of World War I / the Treaty of Versailles... if you really want to stop WW II you'd have to find someway to get Wilson to develop a spine and say "no" to the French at Versailles.
Back on track, the best way to handle contact with Earth... give the PCs just a hint, enough to get them excited and then cut the contact :)
Besides, if Rasputin were some evil high priest of "X" (which certainly would be a fun way to go with it), Lenin and the Bolsheviks might have been the better choice... Stalin as a lesser of two evils. That should scare you.
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I'm just throwing another viewpoint out against the "Oooh, we're going to Earth. I hope we meet X" line.
On the other hand...possibly being able to get Freddie Mercury, Bruce Lee, Mata Hari, Nikola Tesla, Teddy Roosevelt, and Annie Oakley into one's party with the right combination of Hut keys and timey wimey-ness has its charm...
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Good God I want to play that game now.
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Yes my mind leapt at a couple of scenarios of dropping the PCs into the trenches during the Battle of Passchendaele or Ypres to kill a certain Austrian who joined the German army and was promoted to Corporal.You party pooper.....I enjoy kitchen sink famous name tossing speculation..Hey now -I played ball, too! I somehow brought Hitler into the conversation. Hahaha.
But maybe then you would have to go to the Italian front to kill another Corporal, Benito Mussolini, as he was the inspiration of some of Hitler ideas. Messing with history is hard.
Besides, if Rasputin were some evil high priest of "X" (which certainly would be a fun way to go with it), Lenin and the Bolsheviks might have been the better choice... Stalin as a lesser of two evils. That should scare you.
Using the PC powers to get a Socialist revolution instead of Communism. That would be interesting. But it would be a very different game (something like GURPS Infinite Worlds).
Truthfully, I doubt people are going to Earth and it's more like Earth (by that I mean Rasputin) is coming to Golarion ala Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
I'm just throwing another viewpoint out against the "Oooh, we're going to Earth. I hope we meet X" line.On the other hand...possibly being able to get Freddie Mercury, Bruce Lee, Mata Hari, Nikola Tesla, Teddy Roosevelt, and Annie Oakley into one's party with the right combination of Hut keys and timey wimey-ness has its charm...
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Good God I want to play that game now.
Your characters will have to be named Bill and Ted for this to work. Maybe throw Rufus in there..
Truthfully, I doubt people are going to Earth and it's more like Earth (by that I mean Rasputin) is coming to Golarion ala Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
I was thinking that could be a possibility. But then I saw Tank, machine gun, gas cylinder, gas mask, and Matryoshka Doll in the item list.
So it's either Rasputin comes to the golarion system packing a serious amount of heat (and dolls), or we're going to WWI.
Or something else Paizo has cooked up in the dark and mysterious corridors of Paizo HQ.
And out of curiosity how would your player react in meeting a young Iosif Vissarionovič Džugašvil?
I'd tell him to follow his f+%+ing orders during the Battle of Warsaw!
I just hope this AP has good stuff I can steal for my Galtan Fun-Timey Reeducation Through Labor Camp campaign.
I am happy with the infinite universe theory. If there is a universe where the PCs bring magic to Earth and change history then that is supercool, it is just not happening in this universe so I can suspend disbelief in a Sliders kind of way.
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Wow...can't believe they are going there...
This is probably the most daring AP move they have done!
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I think I've sent the link to at least 10 people by now. Including the chatroom twice.
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This AP is looking to have so much concentrated awesome that I squeed when the dots started to connect.
You hear that Paizo? You made a 6'3'', 250 lb. man squee.
Dammit Paizo, you made me do it again!
Seriously, though, I love the direction this is going. This is going to be SO AWESOME.
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I have to say, I love the aesthetics of the Great War in my fantasy and science fiction. Actually getting ready to run a Space: 1913 game soon, so count me very interested in this.
yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesI have to say, I love the aesthetics of the Great War in my fantasy and science fiction. Actually getting ready to run a Space: 1913 game soon, so count me very interested in this.
Space 1913 sounds very interesting... What system are you using is it home brew?
Space 1913 sounds very interesting... What system are you using is it home brew?yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesI have to say, I love the aesthetics of the Great War in my fantasy and science fiction. Actually getting ready to run a Space: 1913 game soon, so count me very interested in this.
Savage Worlds with the Space: 1889 supplement, but I'm advancing that world past the Victorian age setting. So, I can slide in some 1910s pulp in there along with the spirit of the 10's.
Savage Worlds with the Space: 1889 supplement, but I'm advancing that world past the Victorian age setting. So, I can slide in some 1910s pulp in there along with the spirit of the 10's.Space 1913 sounds very interesting... What system are you using is it home brew?yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesI have to say, I love the aesthetics of the Great War in my fantasy and science fiction. Actually getting ready to run a Space: 1913 game soon, so count me very interested in this.
If you get a chance read some of the Biggles stories set in WWI. They are abut old fashioned and Boys Own Adventure but they are worth it.
If you get a chance read some of the Biggles stories set in WWI. They are abut old fashioned and Boys Own Adventure but they are worth it.Savage Worlds with the Space: 1889 supplement, but I'm advancing that world past the Victorian age setting. So, I can slide in some 1910s pulp in there along with the spirit of the 10's.Space 1913 sounds very interesting... What system are you using is it home brew?yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesI have to say, I love the aesthetics of the Great War in my fantasy and science fiction. Actually getting ready to run a Space: 1913 game soon, so count me very interested in this.
Will do. Already adding the atmosphere of the end of imperialism and the general upheaval that occurred during that time period. Also adding in the importance of several of the inventions and how they'd shape space in 1913, like radio and the automobile and tanks.
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Please don't bring back the Spanish flu please don't bring back the Spanish flu...
This all goes back to my theory that fantasy is what happens after the death of the generation that lives it... it's 100 years ago, so it's fair game.
(Incidentally, this is also why Grandma's name isn't popular to give kids, but Great Grandma's name sounds awesome...)
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* stares dumbfoundedly in awe and wonder *
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* then begins laughing in the way Mikaze describes *
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* then makes this post, while still just kind of staring "off" with heart beating in excitement *
Probably not, but I'd estimate you're in the minority of people willing to post about it. Most who dislike this turn will probably just suspend their subscriptions or not interact otherwise, I imagine.