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<blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 7741601" data-attributes="member: 6802378"><p>About superheroes I would like to mention what I call "effect Superman-17". In the comic of Superman #17, published in 1942, Hitler himself is catched by Superman and sent to be judged. Do you imagine History being changed by the superhumans? Let's imagine USA won the Vietnam war, but... be have to remember this: in the real life, after the war, Vietnam had a new conflict with the "Democratic Kampuchea" (= Cambodia), Vietcong vs khmer rogues. This was the end of the brutal genocide by Pol Pot's regime, but China didn't like this and in there were a brief conflict among Vietnam and China in 1979. Do you notice now about the price of changing History?</p><p></p><p> Or let's imagine the world of "Superman: Red Son" with a different story, the Spectre (or Booster Gold, for example), to stop communist Superman has a "freak" idea, and travels to a parrallel Earth to get books about economy by Ayn Rand, Friedich Hayek, Milton Friedman and Tomas Sowell. After Superman to have readen these world is conviced the keynesian economy is wrong and it can't work so good like the true free-market. </p><p></p><p>What if your superheroe homebred universe is visited by explorers from a parallel earth, with a "little secret"? They are from the Atlantic Commonwealth, something like the United States of Euroamerica, where Henry VIII wasn't king of England (her older brother survived the English sweate), and then the emperor was the descendent of British and Spanish crowns. Spain and British Islands were united by marriage aliances. And in this timeline the cults of self-proclaimed prophets survived the ridda wars in Abu Bark's age, and Chinad is ruled by Hong Xinquang, the leader of the Taiping rebelion. (if these could be too controvery, then we could change it to a fictional world like 7th Sea 1868). </p><p></p><p>* Usually most of players would rather to play in a own version of their favorite superheroes universe, sometimes even with crossovers. Sometimes the canon is broken by the Game Masters to give surprises to players to have readen all and they know too much. </p><p></p><p>About the canon... there is the same problem with the fantasy books of Dragonlance, or Dark Sun novels</p><p></p><p>* I buy rpg books because I am a collector. It is like the fanboy who buys the collection edition of a videogame, with a figure, an artbook and those things. Why to buy the DVD when you can see the movie in the TV?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LuisCarlos17f, post: 7741601, member: 6802378"] About superheroes I would like to mention what I call "effect Superman-17". In the comic of Superman #17, published in 1942, Hitler himself is catched by Superman and sent to be judged. Do you imagine History being changed by the superhumans? Let's imagine USA won the Vietnam war, but... be have to remember this: in the real life, after the war, Vietnam had a new conflict with the "Democratic Kampuchea" (= Cambodia), Vietcong vs khmer rogues. This was the end of the brutal genocide by Pol Pot's regime, but China didn't like this and in there were a brief conflict among Vietnam and China in 1979. Do you notice now about the price of changing History? Or let's imagine the world of "Superman: Red Son" with a different story, the Spectre (or Booster Gold, for example), to stop communist Superman has a "freak" idea, and travels to a parrallel Earth to get books about economy by Ayn Rand, Friedich Hayek, Milton Friedman and Tomas Sowell. After Superman to have readen these world is conviced the keynesian economy is wrong and it can't work so good like the true free-market. What if your superheroe homebred universe is visited by explorers from a parallel earth, with a "little secret"? They are from the Atlantic Commonwealth, something like the United States of Euroamerica, where Henry VIII wasn't king of England (her older brother survived the English sweate), and then the emperor was the descendent of British and Spanish crowns. Spain and British Islands were united by marriage aliances. And in this timeline the cults of self-proclaimed prophets survived the ridda wars in Abu Bark's age, and Chinad is ruled by Hong Xinquang, the leader of the Taiping rebelion. (if these could be too controvery, then we could change it to a fictional world like 7th Sea 1868). * Usually most of players would rather to play in a own version of their favorite superheroes universe, sometimes even with crossovers. Sometimes the canon is broken by the Game Masters to give surprises to players to have readen all and they know too much. About the canon... there is the same problem with the fantasy books of Dragonlance, or Dark Sun novels * I buy rpg books because I am a collector. It is like the fanboy who buys the collection edition of a videogame, with a figure, an artbook and those things. Why to buy the DVD when you can see the movie in the TV? [/QUOTE]
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