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<blockquote data-quote="Evenglare" data-source="post: 5989047" data-attributes="member: 63245"><p>Upon further thinking , a billion or not, if you are setting it on "earth" in a billion years. You have thrown out a REAL place, and a REAL time frame. I understand there is fantasy in here, and he's going to use soft science/magic. The fact about it though is that I can't imagine any perceivable way that anything could even be remotely familiar to us. In a billion years, society would be so ridiculously advanced that there's no way we could even remotely understand how to play whatever "race" is there. Certainly there shouldn't be ANY kind of humans, we would have either evolved or been wiped out completely. Any sentient races would be completely alien to us in every way possible and therefore just about impossible to roleplay (and before anyone says it, elves and dwarves and such are probably not being roleplayed correctly AT ALL in fantasy games simply because we just can't understand them, so we define them by human standards) Just think how different we are from people who lived 2000 years ago! Now a BILLION years?? </p><p></p><p>I think the thing that gets me is that he's throwing out huge time scales AND references to things that actually exist. This is a tricky subject because now you are getting into real life type of things. Just thinking about Warhammer 40k ,Dune, and Star Trek that reference earth it's completely changed or forgotten. I mean, if everything is going to be completely different anyway why set it on earth? Why not in a completely different universe ?</p><p></p><p>What exactly about earth is it that makes him want to center the game there? This is what I'm wary of. He's said continents will be completely different, which is true. There will be nothing of our day left at all. Completely wiped out, no ruins or anything.This is especially true since what... 7 or 8 civilizations have risen and fallen? Nothing that we will recognize as earth from our era will exist, so why earth? Why make that specification unless part of the earth's past will be included in some way. The only way this could happen is if we start time travelling. Which is fine if he's going soft science/magic...</p><p></p><p>Like I said, im interested, i'm just skeptical about the setup.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Evenglare, post: 5989047, member: 63245"] Upon further thinking , a billion or not, if you are setting it on "earth" in a billion years. You have thrown out a REAL place, and a REAL time frame. I understand there is fantasy in here, and he's going to use soft science/magic. The fact about it though is that I can't imagine any perceivable way that anything could even be remotely familiar to us. In a billion years, society would be so ridiculously advanced that there's no way we could even remotely understand how to play whatever "race" is there. Certainly there shouldn't be ANY kind of humans, we would have either evolved or been wiped out completely. Any sentient races would be completely alien to us in every way possible and therefore just about impossible to roleplay (and before anyone says it, elves and dwarves and such are probably not being roleplayed correctly AT ALL in fantasy games simply because we just can't understand them, so we define them by human standards) Just think how different we are from people who lived 2000 years ago! Now a BILLION years?? I think the thing that gets me is that he's throwing out huge time scales AND references to things that actually exist. This is a tricky subject because now you are getting into real life type of things. Just thinking about Warhammer 40k ,Dune, and Star Trek that reference earth it's completely changed or forgotten. I mean, if everything is going to be completely different anyway why set it on earth? Why not in a completely different universe ? What exactly about earth is it that makes him want to center the game there? This is what I'm wary of. He's said continents will be completely different, which is true. There will be nothing of our day left at all. Completely wiped out, no ruins or anything.This is especially true since what... 7 or 8 civilizations have risen and fallen? Nothing that we will recognize as earth from our era will exist, so why earth? Why make that specification unless part of the earth's past will be included in some way. The only way this could happen is if we start time travelling. Which is fine if he's going soft science/magic... Like I said, im interested, i'm just skeptical about the setup. [/QUOTE]
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