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TimeWatch RPG Playtest Story Hour (Updated 9-2-14)
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<blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 6244698" data-attributes="member: 3448"><p>A couple notes from the GM:</p><p>The PCs were told at the beginning that this was a Class 1B timeline crisis--one that threatens the existence of TimeWatch, but does not threaten the existence of all human history after a certain point. Not sure it matters, but it's an additional bit of chrome.</p><p></p><p>Sequoia was, in the timeline in question, in fact the name of the CSA state that occupies the territory that became Oklahoma in our timeline. It's named after the great Cherokee leader, not after the trees also named after him; various Native American tribes and nations in the general Oklahoma area fought on the CSA side in the Civil War (in real history), so in the aftermath of a Confederate victory, instead of facing a particular stringent Reconstruction, the Cherokee and other tribes in the area had more political influence and status, so the state ended up named after Sequoia (who died a generation earlier). So the fighting in northern Sequoia was in fact fierce combat over the essential resource of oil, trying to control the oil wells of Oklahoma and Texas.</p><p></p><p>Also, Eli Whitney Jr. invented the Whitney gun, not Eli Whitney Sr. The Whitney gun was essentially technologically identical to the Gatling gun, which was fielded by the Union Army in the late days of the Civil War in real history. The usefulness of repeating rifles like the Gatling gun was limited until the development of smokeless powder, so it didn't have a huge effect on the Civil War. But Gatling gun like technology plus smokeless powder at Gettysburg...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cerebral Paladin, post: 6244698, member: 3448"] A couple notes from the GM: The PCs were told at the beginning that this was a Class 1B timeline crisis--one that threatens the existence of TimeWatch, but does not threaten the existence of all human history after a certain point. Not sure it matters, but it's an additional bit of chrome. Sequoia was, in the timeline in question, in fact the name of the CSA state that occupies the territory that became Oklahoma in our timeline. It's named after the great Cherokee leader, not after the trees also named after him; various Native American tribes and nations in the general Oklahoma area fought on the CSA side in the Civil War (in real history), so in the aftermath of a Confederate victory, instead of facing a particular stringent Reconstruction, the Cherokee and other tribes in the area had more political influence and status, so the state ended up named after Sequoia (who died a generation earlier). So the fighting in northern Sequoia was in fact fierce combat over the essential resource of oil, trying to control the oil wells of Oklahoma and Texas. Also, Eli Whitney Jr. invented the Whitney gun, not Eli Whitney Sr. The Whitney gun was essentially technologically identical to the Gatling gun, which was fielded by the Union Army in the late days of the Civil War in real history. The usefulness of repeating rifles like the Gatling gun was limited until the development of smokeless powder, so it didn't have a huge effect on the Civil War. But Gatling gun like technology plus smokeless powder at Gettysburg... [/QUOTE]
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