Re: [HoE] Time Line Pardox

[Doug Stalker <dougs@technologist.com>]

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> I usually run it that anything that is changed in the past affects the
> future, with every little action potentially changing the course of
> "history", if they ever return to the future it could be changed
> completely. (for instance, a character with a knowledge of physics, helped
> a mad scientint with an impossible formula to show off - but later
> regretted it, fearing it could change the future all together).

> With this
> method. it is possible that the characters change their own childhoods, or
> even stop themselves from being born, but I usually figure they come
> through about the same, besides, they normaly avoid their past
> selves/ancestors for fear of what could happen.

You could avoid that by placing Time Travelers outside the scope of changes...
anyone not in their native time is unaffected, but other peoples memories of
them are.  This allows the PCs to cause all sorts of chaos but worry about
themselves disapearing.  Of course, they would have to clean up teh mess they
made and chaos theory stops them predicting what the future will be like.  Even
breathing in the past could screw everything up.

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> There is one other method I have used - if the characters don't mess up too
> much. Every action of theirs does not change the future as they planned,
> but re-inforces it.

>

This is probably teh best way, though it does require a bit more work on the
GMs part to do teh little forshadowing things. After doing this a bit, they
might realise that time travel to change the past isn't such a good idea after
all.



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 - doug -