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There’s always the option of running an alternate reality HP game, regardless of pre or post.


In what way Axolotl? What would you change?


I'm curious about what you might mean as well.

Philo does raise a good point about not wanting the future pre-ordained, which I could understand. I do like the idea of having known touchstones that can be RPed by the GM, though - it would make it easier.

If we want to talk Post-HP teachers, though, here's a rough list for right after the events of Deathly Hallows.

Headmistress - Professor McGonagall (assuming, since she's been deputy headmistress)
Potions - Horace Slughorn
Magical Creatures - Rubeus Hagrid
Divination - Professor Trelawney/Firenze
Defense Against the Dark Arts - ?
Herbology - Professor Sprout
Charms - Professor Flitwick
Arithmancy - Professor Vector
Astronomy - Professor Sinistra
Transfiguration - ?
History of Magic - Professor Binns
Flying - Madam Hooch
Muggle Studies - ?
Ancient Runes - ?
Artificing - ?
Alchemy - ?

Artificing and Alchemy we'd have to make up anyway, but that's not too many gaps. The further post-Harry we go, the more teachers we would need to fill in. Maybe someone can fill in some of these blanks?


Timeskeeper - first of all, it's your game, even if it's multiple GM's, so I think you should set the ground rules (and adjust if you face mutiny, perhaps).

Secondly, these are just ideas. I'm not committed to a particular one. But here are some ways we can free ourselves of the Time Turner Curse and get stuck in predestination land:

1. Set it in 1700's Hogwarts.
2. pre-Harry, but anything can happen--Snape can die, etc. I know, sad, but you never know! Voldemort could attack early, the Chamber of Secrets could be opened, etc.
3. non-Harry: the Boy Didn't Live. Kind of dark! Could be any time, and You-Know-Who is out and about.
4. post-Harry, minus the Cursed Child. Who read that anyway? :D Bonuses: DADA isn't cursed, new villain(s), LGBTQ+house elf acceptance, Slytherin might be a more tolerant house. Also, was there a Magical Creatures teacher pre-Hagrid in the immediate past? I don't think there was...
5. Set it at Ilvermorny School, to re-set everything.

As I look at this list, kinda feel like Option 4 gives the most "flexibility plus a preexisting known setting".


er, NOT get stuck in predestination land.


Alternate reality does give us the best of all worlds. We can set it modern day, but with the same HP teachers. We can potentially use some of the events that Harry faced (though in new ways). We can use all of the background characters that we already know. We can use Death Eaters as bad guys. We can use some of the revolving door of DADA teachers or make our own ones.

So my first choice is now AR, then Post-Potter, then Pre-Potter.

This is the best reference to the HP timeline I've seen. It goes by time and by character.

Pre-Potter would be 1981 to 1990. 1998-2017 is Post-Potter, but before the Epilogue and Cursed Child. Cursed Child is also easily dismissed. After all, only players who've been to London and New York have really seen it. Reading the script isn't quite the same.


Axolotl wrote:

Timeskeeper - first of all, it's your game, even if it's multiple GM's, so I think you should set the ground rules (and adjust if you face mutiny, perhaps).

Secondly, these are just ideas. I'm not committed to a particular one. But here are some ways we can free ourselves of the Time Turner Curse and get stuck in predestination land:

1. Set it in 1700's Hogwarts.
2. pre-Harry, but anything can happen--Snape can die, etc. I know, sad, but you never know! Voldemort could attack early, the Chamber of Secrets could be opened, etc.
3. non-Harry: the Boy Didn't Live. Kind of dark! Could be any time, and You-Know-Who is out and about.
4. post-Harry, minus the Cursed Child. Who read that anyway? :D Bonuses: DADA isn't cursed, new villain(s), LGBTQ+house elf acceptance, Slytherin might be a more tolerant house. Also, was there a Magical Creatures teacher pre-Hagrid in the immediate past? I don't think there was...
5. Set it at Ilvermorny School, to re-set everything.

As I look at this list, kinda feel like Option 4 gives the most "flexibility plus a preexisting known setting".

Looks like we were writing at the same time. The only one I wouldn't do is 1700's.


Out of all of them I like 2 the most. It allows us to keep familiar faces while still having control over the future. It allows us to bring in things such as the Marauder's Map should we so choose and not have to worry if it isn't in Flich's office for Fred and Greorge.

Three would be an interesting twist but that start us off on a much darker game.

While I would love to do five, I just don't know enough about the school.

Over all, to make thing easier I think we should just stick to tue in between years of 1980 and 1992. We're all learning a new system and GMing a new system. I don't want to overload anyone with also having to come up with new teachers, or villains, or anything like that. I think coming up with new fellow students would be hard enough.

Also the professor of care of Magical Creaters before Hargid was Professor Kettleburn.


Thanks Times. :) Glad to be back. Slowly getting in to the swing of things.


Someone can always use the Time Turner in Year 7 (1987? Dumbledore? :D) and fix all the dead Professors and exploded castles that we leave in our wake. Heck, we could have an unsanctioned and unmentioned TriWizard Cup! Muahahahaha! Time Turnerrrrr! Ok, I'm down with 80's Hogwarts. I look forward to a Muggleborn bringing a GameTime watch with them.


Time turners can only go back so far. A couple of days at most sadly. There was actually a small story bit that Lucius Malfoy and a partner made a time turner that could go back years but he never used it so we've no idea if it works or not. Draco believed his father really didn't want to live in a world where Voldemort won after all. But that is total speculation.

Game time? Also you do know that any form of technology or electrical devices stop functioning once they enter Hogwarts right? XD

Edit: although it would be hilarious for a muggle-born to bring a ballpoint pen! I'd get a giggle out of that!


Ah, had to read up on that. From what I see, non-electrical mechanical devices might be ok, but they use such things at Hogwarts anyhow (e.g. a wound wristwatch, mechanical camera). You'd think they could create little anti-magic bubbles for other stuff.


You would think So, but I think it is to ensure that it doesn't break the enchantments placed upon the school. They mean a lot after all.

Non-electrical might work, for example in two with the camera, but I think that was magically enchanted to make the pictures move. I'm not sure... I'll have to go digging on that one!


Yeah, I'm not sure how enchanted machines work. A question for Muggle Studies scholars!


I think it was stated that the camera in "The Chamber of Secrets" was made to be able to run off of ambient magical energies rather than electricity. Don't quote me on that, however.


That camera had plot armour


Ciaran Patrick Loughlin:

NAME Ciaran Patrick Loughlin (Keyer-on / Lock-lin)
BACKGROUND Pureblood (Irish)
ATTRIBUTES
Finesse 1
Intelligence 2
Spirit 2
Power 2
MASTERIES
Creature Expert
Enchanting Expert
PERKS
A Way with Wands
Tussel Hardened
SKILLS
Artificing +4 (Enchanting Expert)
Magical Creatures +3 (Creature Expert)
Charms +3
DADA +3
Potions +3

Wand-3d10 ⇒ (1, 8, 9) = 18 Beech Erumpent Hair 12&1/2 Inches

Backstory/Description:

Ciaran is the eldest son of Seamus Blaise Loughlin, the Author of a well known book titled 'Pagan Rituals and the Rise and Fall of the Shaman', and Anastasia Prewett, a renowned Broomstick Designer. Ciaran is a large child, tall and heavily built with a quiet and shy personality. Ciaran has messy red hair and wears silver rimmed glasses, much to his embarrassment. Despite being pudgy, ginger and nerdy looking, Ciaran is a confident, kind young man, proud of who he is and unafraid of adversity.

Ciaran had spent all of his childhood living in Ireland, travelling to London and the United Kingdom only rarely with his parents, as they attended functions at the behest of the Ministry of Magic. He is excited for his trip to Hogwarts but nervous about not being at home in his own country.

Pretty sure that is correctly done. Fingers crossed anyway!


Dragoslav Dobrescu -ElbowtotheFace
Kenneth Williamson - Phntm888
H.B. Gurung - Axolotl
Isabella Orpington-Russell - Philo Pharynx
Vincent Wallace - Jing the Bandit
Anora Evans - Timeskeeper (ME!)
Greg Douglas-Fir - PixelsAreGod
Ciaran Patrick - DarkestHeart

Now if I am correct these are all the people putting in for this yes?


Alright! Everyone on the list make your way over to the discussion board and follow instruction! ^_^


Potential Year: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

...LOL, yea I might trade the last year for another year with someone if they want to be the one who does the grande finale. But otherwise I reckon I'm fine.

Edit: Looks like I'll be taking 5th then since 6th and 7th are already rolled.

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