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<blockquote data-quote="DeviousQuail" data-source="post: 9095916" data-attributes="member: 7025431"><p>The constant missing persons issue, scientific inquiry, interviews about the future, etc will be a big part of this one over the long-term. I can also see that being a neat hook.</p><p>"We'll pay you $20 million if you can steal the future tech from Lord BBEG's keep and help us reverse engineer it."</p><p>"Does X religion still exist?"</p><p>"Are there records in the future of what happens to us now?"</p><p>"If knowledge is transferred from the future, what about injuries, aging, or tattoos?" (This is a question all the scenarios need an answer to)</p><p></p><p>More time will be spent in the future, which is probably more exciting from a gameplay aspect. Making the modern time a bigger part of gameplay sounds great from a story perspective. But this is for your table, not an audience. Incorporating antagonist NPCs also experiencing this same phenomenon could spice up the modern aspect. That applies to most of these I think.</p><p></p><p>Think of all the NPCs and background changes you'd have to come up with every time. No thanks.</p><p></p><p>I like the dual-existence approach, but I think there needs to be some other element involved to spice it up. The main consciousness of the person being in the future and only returning when they sleep (or whatever cut-off you use) means there is some kind of auto-pilot situation happening in the modern world. What if that auto-pilot can be hijacked by antagonists from the future? They could be messing up your modern life in an attempt to thwart you in the future. Maybe the auto-pilot is a spirit that is slowly taking over your body and every time you return you lose more and more control of yourself. Heck, it could just be you've split into two people and modern you is fighting for control of their body because they see future you as some kind of invader or mental breakdown.</p><p></p><p>ETA: The show <em>Travelers</em> kind of does your idea in reverse. If nothing else it is an excellent source of inspiration.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DeviousQuail, post: 9095916, member: 7025431"] The constant missing persons issue, scientific inquiry, interviews about the future, etc will be a big part of this one over the long-term. I can also see that being a neat hook. "We'll pay you $20 million if you can steal the future tech from Lord BBEG's keep and help us reverse engineer it." "Does X religion still exist?" "Are there records in the future of what happens to us now?" "If knowledge is transferred from the future, what about injuries, aging, or tattoos?" (This is a question all the scenarios need an answer to) More time will be spent in the future, which is probably more exciting from a gameplay aspect. Making the modern time a bigger part of gameplay sounds great from a story perspective. But this is for your table, not an audience. Incorporating antagonist NPCs also experiencing this same phenomenon could spice up the modern aspect. That applies to most of these I think. Think of all the NPCs and background changes you'd have to come up with every time. No thanks. I like the dual-existence approach, but I think there needs to be some other element involved to spice it up. The main consciousness of the person being in the future and only returning when they sleep (or whatever cut-off you use) means there is some kind of auto-pilot situation happening in the modern world. What if that auto-pilot can be hijacked by antagonists from the future? They could be messing up your modern life in an attempt to thwart you in the future. Maybe the auto-pilot is a spirit that is slowly taking over your body and every time you return you lose more and more control of yourself. Heck, it could just be you've split into two people and modern you is fighting for control of their body because they see future you as some kind of invader or mental breakdown. ETA: The show [I]Travelers[/I] kind of does your idea in reverse. If nothing else it is an excellent source of inspiration. [/QUOTE]
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