Re: [HoE] stone(was solar energy)

[George Dorn <toadpooka@usa.net>]

Not that I ever want to get into an argument over temporal mechanics, but it really depends on how
you define time travel.  I've seen it done well with either assumption.  I loved the Back to the
Future movies (though they lost a bit with the stuff that was cut out), and how history changed.  On
the other hand, as a GM, I also enjoy changing one thing in a timeline, and extrapolating all the
changes in that future from there.  Again, I have to recommend the game Time Lords for a good guide
to doing this.
Since Time travel /is/ still in the realm of Science Fiction, I think discussing how it really works
is beyond the capacity of this list.  However, we can certainly share ideas on what would be an
interesting way to work it...

Velkyn@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 98-09-03 18:53:46 EDT, you write:
> 
> << I would like to assume that someone or some group found out what was
>  happening as ghost rock was burning and didn't want anything to do with it.
>   Or maybe some scientist had the Hinderance Allergy: Ghost Rock and was
>  forced to search for other means of energy.  I'm not saying that solar
>  cells would be everywhere but I figure that they would be somewhere.  In
>  the 200 years since the time of the Weird West, some smarty pants had to
>  look up at the sun and say, "Dang.  Wouldn't that make a neat energy
>  source?"
> 
>  Don S. >>
> 
> okay, i can buy that.  could make a whole adventure on getting the solar
> cells(from a wrecked university??)  Bear with me, I don't have the basic
> Deadlands stuff and am a bit clueless about certain things.  I do have a
> question.  I assume that since Stone was sent back, reality split into two
> versions, one where the good guys won in the Old West and one where they
> didn't.  Am I right in assuming that in HoE, Stone won in the past and the
> past 200 years were probably influenced with more manitou than would have been
> in a past where the good guys destroyed Stone?  I hate time travel paradoxes.
> Has anyone read the game Blood Shadows(film noir with magic)?  It postulates
> cities seperated by nasty wastelands.  Could be a decent concept for the
> intervening eras between the Weird and Wasted West.
> 
> velkyn

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