You're a trillionaire geek, and one day you think, "What would happen if I brought 4E back in time to 1970?"
So you load a fleet of trucks with thousands and thousands of copies of the 4E three core books, along with vast bundles of supporting material like pre-painted figures, battlemats, wet erase markers, dice, etc. You then drive over to your personal time machine and drive through to 1970.
Having done your research, you go and find local wargaming conventions. You set up shop at the con and sell the books real cheap, say a buck a book. You hit each region of the US, fly on over to Britain and douse them with 4E, you even zoom down to Australia for good measure. Then you set up a distributor to feed the books to the retail marketplace.
Then, since this is handy time machine that splits timestreams, you pick a different one from the timestream you started from (so as not to screw up your own future) and then step through to something similar to our present to check and see how RPGs have evolved.
What would have happened if you had a finely turned rpg engine dropped into everyone's lap in the early 70s?
So you load a fleet of trucks with thousands and thousands of copies of the 4E three core books, along with vast bundles of supporting material like pre-painted figures, battlemats, wet erase markers, dice, etc. You then drive over to your personal time machine and drive through to 1970.
Having done your research, you go and find local wargaming conventions. You set up shop at the con and sell the books real cheap, say a buck a book. You hit each region of the US, fly on over to Britain and douse them with 4E, you even zoom down to Australia for good measure. Then you set up a distributor to feed the books to the retail marketplace.
Then, since this is handy time machine that splits timestreams, you pick a different one from the timestream you started from (so as not to screw up your own future) and then step through to something similar to our present to check and see how RPGs have evolved.
What would have happened if you had a finely turned rpg engine dropped into everyone's lap in the early 70s?