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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DnDChick" data-source="post: 2369160" data-attributes="member: 54">You know ... my post up there about the book Footprints of Thunder got me thinking.*What about* the residents of all the cities that got shunted into the Late Cretaceous? It is likely they survived the journey, just as all the dinosaurs survived being catapulted into the present.So, taking that premise ... a large group of people, perhaps an entire town or two, get somehow sent into the distant past with all of their homes, cars, guns, buildings, etc. intact. This would be a new spin on the PA setting. Even though it's not your typical Max Max stuff, they would still be in a self-governed, probably mostly lawless community, with limited gas for the few remaining cars in working order, limited ammo for their limited weapons, limited food, no electricity ... soon, the small town might have a wooden palisade, and brave souls would venture into the vast unknown for food and resources. It would have the *feel* of PA despite not being technically so. Instead of sending them to the Cretaceous, you could send them to the Stone Age so they could have the "fun" of dealing with primitive humans.Want mutations? Ok ... the strange temporal energies cause mutations. Want cybernetics? Ok ... just have the people be from a time ahead of our own before being "sent back." Want more cars? Ok ... they town is lucky enough to have a large gasoline reserve tank (maybe the town was originally in Texas or something). There are lots of possibilities for this idea. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />There would also be a vast pool of potential characters to choose from. If you have an entire town sent back, if someone loses a character they can just stat up one of the hundreds or thousands of other citizens.Edit: Heehee ... I just realized that what I have described here is "Land of the Lost" on a grand scale. Am I showing my age or what?  :\  All we need now are good stats for slestaks ...  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /></blockquote>

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