(04-17-2026, 03:42 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Guilty as charged. Also, it was my first book, I was young (and had a naive approach to world-building), and I hadn't yet learned to look and think deeper and wider. (Ironically, I learned that -- or at least started to -- with Drunkard's Walk, when I decided I wanted to depict a more realistic version of Warriors World.)
tbh I kind of wish I was taking the more naive route, or just doing a straight copy of the OG worldbuilding for these chapters 'cos it would've been a lot faster.
Ah well. At least next chapter I can steal a little more thoroughly from the original book - plus GURPS Weird War II which I serendipitously own a copy of - since it's basically The War, which might be the most over-researched thing in modern history so I don't feel a need to stop and talk about shit like I did for the Twenties and Thirties. Fun times!
(Since it hasn't come up yet, here's the rough chapter breakdown as it stands:
1 - Setting introduction
2 - Prehistory to 1924
3 - 1924-39
4 - 1939-45
5 - 1946-1972
6 - 1972-1989
7 - 1989-2005
8 - 2005-2023
9 - 2024 and outro
App. A - Timeline
App. B - Glossary
App. C - Characters
App. D - Annotations
Essay 1 - Super Culture
Essay 2 - IST 101
[more essays as they come up]
)
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"It is your job to personify the tyranny of the majority. You must brutally, ruthlessly oppress and persecute the fuck out of the poor misunderstood disruptive creep minority so that the privileged nerd funhaver status quo can be maintained. It's a thankless job, but somebody's got to do it. Fun Über Alles, all hail the Fun Tyrant, without him our campaign is lost." --SA user Angry Diplomat, on the GM's role.