RE: [BNW] Back to Bargainers--Why I don't like their book

[Scott Raby <sraby@asymtek.com>]

>>Bargainers yet but it gives a whole new kind of twist on things (heh, 
>>twist)
>>to go in new directions (I never thought of using other dimensions in BNW
>>(time travel I did) and even if you don't use them as Angels and Deamons 
>>the
>>high stated examples give a good idea on how to make other worldly beings.
>
>first of all the biggest comic book story nono is a timetraveling story
this 
>along with clones running a close second is a guaranteed way to destroy and

>confuse any story you tell

I used it as a jumping off point, explaining what the world was like (a hell
hole, worse then Max lived in) and then sent them back in time (thus
dropping them into a new world with a mission and no support, to help them
get started they appear in a sporting goods store naked) at first I wanted
to use Bishop as a model but no hoping back and forth, then took the
starting out bit from Terminator. So if you make it a one way trip it works
fine, and sometimes it can work in other places and settings as well,
depends on how you define it (such as the Matrix, it has a visual form of
time travel from 199? to 21?? and they go back and forth and it all makes
sense because they define it as a computer simulation, same thing with
Highlander, only they defined it as history that fills the gaps.) The reason
Time travel does not work well in the comic industry is that it is never the
idea of one person controlling the whole of the world, it is multiple "gods"
that shape that reality and thus it is impossible to hold together the
continuity of the world (DC even had a "Crisis" over the whole thing, Marvel
just drops the Beyonder, Infinity Gems, or Capt. Universe or what ever his
name is that Spiderman last use the power of, to fix this or change that.)
(I always found it odd that Doc Strange cast a spell to rid this plane of
Vampires in the 80's {when they were not very popular} and in the 90's Vamps
are back in the Marvel U, so did the spell fail, or the fad get to powerful
to ignore. {rhetorical please don't answer, my point is about continuity and
how it can't be wholly maintained when no ONE has control).