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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 1778337" data-attributes="member: 14041">Well, the big whole in the middle of the world is certainly a problem.  Is this going to be a center piece of the campaign, or just background? Regardless it will radically alter the timeline, it has too.  First, what happens to all the people that would be born in that region?  We loose presidents, generals, invintors, etc. in the passing years.  America probablly doesn't enter WWI and maybe not WW2, both of which would be fought on radical different terms with the advent of magic (Oh, do go find Arrowsmith from DC comics, I think its in TPB form now, its about a WWI fought with magic)A couple of things to remember are the prominent figures around at the time of the "big event" like Edison and Tesla who would have figured out how magic works.  Edison was somethign of an occultist anyway.  Edison's Shocking Grasp and Tesla's Faithful Watchdog <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=":)" />  How is the West Coast going to feel about being cut of from the east?  They may just succeed, and this time there wont be a whole lot that can be done about it, since I imagine moving troops across the Dead Zone will be just about impossible.Speaking of succession, there are going to be pleanty of people in the south who still remember the Civil War and might take advantage of the chaos that the indian uprising would create, not to mention magic, to cause their own troubles.Realistically, the big issue is going to be food production.  The breadbasket of america is not going to be able to take advantage of technoligcal improvements that are going to be neccesary to feed the US, not to mention a significant part of the world, in the next century.  On the other hand, if magic works and 20th cnetury science doesn't, magetech might.  In comes Tesla and Edison with Eberron-esque lightning rails and elemental powered airships, Westinghouse Contructs provide slave labor, and in a few years you have a region that isn't technologically backwards at all, but is more advanced because of the need to use magic in lots of different applications.I love the Tunguska trigger for magic and changing the world from that point.  But that in itself is going to radically alter history.  You might save yourself some trouble and make the "Dead Zone" much smaller, say maybe just a state or two where the native americans have used magic to keep the rest of the people out and establish their own nation 9a la Shadowrun).  That would have less economic and social impact on the nation and world, and maybe give you the "exotic" feel you are looking for.</blockquote>

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