Jd Smith1
Hero
I'm kicked around ideas for future campaigns, which I usually do about the time my current campaign reaches the mid-point.
The point I'm currently considering is this:
Say time travel into the past is possible, with a max 'depth' of two hundred years.
I was considering how, and why, this could be used. If changing the past immediately changes the future/present, then there would be motivation for extremist groups to desire the tech so they could re-order history; for an example, modern-day Nazis sending a team back in time to aid the Third Reich in winning WW2. However, this would also wipe out the persons who undertook this plot, because as history adjusted itself, the scope of changes such an alteration of history would have would mean that the plotters would be facing the possibility of not having been born, or having been born to such radically changed circumstances as to be completely different people.
That would seem to be a deterrent to all but the most devoted fanatic.
I'm also considering issues such as cropped up in the TV series 13 Monkeys:
I know this is rambling and foggy, but I'm going around and around in circles: to change the past would take a motivated and professional (and thus intelligent) team; changing the past would mean the undoing of those same team members.
Am I looking at this wrong?
The point I'm currently considering is this:
Say time travel into the past is possible, with a max 'depth' of two hundred years.
I was considering how, and why, this could be used. If changing the past immediately changes the future/present, then there would be motivation for extremist groups to desire the tech so they could re-order history; for an example, modern-day Nazis sending a team back in time to aid the Third Reich in winning WW2. However, this would also wipe out the persons who undertook this plot, because as history adjusted itself, the scope of changes such an alteration of history would have would mean that the plotters would be facing the possibility of not having been born, or having been born to such radically changed circumstances as to be completely different people.
That would seem to be a deterrent to all but the most devoted fanatic.
I'm also considering issues such as cropped up in the TV series 13 Monkeys:
Where their efforts to prevent a plague ultimately causes the plague by accidentally sending back the corpse of a future person into the past, which it is found as part of an archaeological dig and the plague being harvested from the body.
I know this is rambling and foggy, but I'm going around and around in circles: to change the past would take a motivated and professional (and thus intelligent) team; changing the past would mean the undoing of those same team members.
Am I looking at this wrong?