Help Me ReWrite Post-1910 History

[Olive]

So why make a comment like that if you don't have time? And why insist on French fascism being French yet not taking the time to explain? As if there weren't different undercurrents within various extreme right movements in France, at different times?

Or, its a game, he can have nazism with the numbers filed off if it is easier? How important is it?

It's not really important at all, obviously. The only important thing is 'is it fun'. Now, I'm an MA student in first world war history (more or less). If some of the suggestions in the thread were followed for a game I was playing in, it would bother me, because they're based on a complete misunderstanding of history (as in people are saying things that aren't true.) But as WayneLigon is not me, he's not going to be bothered by it.

The point of the first comment just to point out that some people in this thread have theirr history very very wrong, and the point of not expanding on it is that it doesn't matter.

The point of the second comment was to point out that there was a French proto-fascist movement in the period being discussed, and that if WayneLigon was interested he should check that stuff out. If he wants to have Nazis with French accents, then whatever, but there's a more historically accurate way to go, and the idea of a successful French fascism is a historically defensible one.

 

[WayneLigon]

Magical oil production?

I was thinking, for a city, oddly enough, of Galveston. 'Cause no 1900 means no Galveston hurricane.

New Orleans and Galveston are very big. Alongside various European ports and Haiti and Cuba who joined various Latin American alliances.

Galveston, unfortunately, still suffers since it does go through 1900; the rollback does not happen until 1923 or so. However, I did look at the map and yep, it's an island, which means it's not part of the rollback; the Gulf protects it from that (This idea supercedes the map made earlier, which had the zone extending into the Gulf for some large part. No, canals dugs later do not cause the zone to move back - they've tried that. So you do have a modern port city for Texas. Interesting. Nothing in the dead zone is ever a mix, though; it's either one or the other.

The idea of Galveston as the Dixie Miami Vice is too good not to use. Thanks.

 

[WayneLigon]

Population in the dead zone.

Another thing to consider. The people in '1870' can leave the dead zone and be integrated back into modern society with little problem. How many in 1923 leave and effectively travel almost 100 years into the future? How many people see the benefit of a 'new frontier' and immigrate to the dead zone? Would things basically balance out, or would the dead zone lose (or gain) a significant number of people.

The US will have a bill that extends all the benefits and duties of modern life to the people in the dead zone, I'm sure. The dead zone will still send people to Congress and Washington DC. States that are split by the dead zone continue to receive financial aid and maybe other federal assistance?

 

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

Galveston, unfortunately, still suffers since it does go through 1900; the rollback does not happen until 1923 or so. However, I did look at the map and yep, it's an island, which means it's not part of the rollback; the Gulf protects it from that (This idea supercedes the map made earlier, which had the zone extending into the Gulf for some large part. No, canals dugs later do not cause the zone to move back - they've tried that. So you do have a modern port city for Texas. Interesting. Nothing in the dead zone is ever a mix, though; it's either one or the other.

The idea of Galveston as the Dixie Miami Vice is too good not to use. Thanks.

oh, I wasn't thinking that it wouldn't go through the hurricane. If the rest of the state hasn't, however, then most of the state's infrastructure assumes that Galveston is the most important port rather than Houston and surroundings.

 

[Vargo]

I just thought of something - if the rollback to 1870 "rolled back" the people as well, then there's the distinct possibility that at the time of the rollback, two copies of a single person were in existence at the same time. There are all kinds of fun things you can do with this, and I'll leave the practical application as an exercise to the DM...

 

[WayneLigon]

I just thought of something - if the rollback to 1870 "rolled back" the people as well, then there's the distinct possibility that at the time of the rollback, two copies of a single person were in existence at the same time.

THat is true, and something could indeed come of it. Especially if it were a thing instead of a person. The 'duplication' would be 80 years in the past, so it could lead to some treasure hunting and 'who is the proper descendent?' cases.