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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 1786596" data-attributes="member: 6533">Just want to bump this, cause this idea is fantastic.Some really basic questions, cause I'm not certain what the state of things is now after the course of this thread:What's the magic like?  I get that it works off of prior occult traditions and can have massive heavy ritual effects, but is it otherwise more or less like D20 Modern magic?What's the most basic information on the time switch?  Did the world go back to 1870 and the people who had been living there just had to adjust?  Which would sort of make sense given an intelligent curse.   Or was it a total time switch, where the area of land and populations from 1920 dissapeared and the people from 1870 were suddenly there again?  Just need to know which of those is more or less true in the design process as of right now.Cause if it's the latter option then this represents huge HUGE problem for a democracy.  Also some very cool stuff, but......you would be looking at the US suddenly having to integrate a substantial population of people who had all fairly recently survived the civil war and were actively fighting in Indian wars.  And I can't imagine what the reaction of the American population in the 1920s would be like to a group of people like that.   Well, I can but I'll leave it for after the response.Here's the primary initial history post-event:The biggest problem, in terms of later historical development, would be:A.) Figuring out how to get aid to the people in the zone.  Anyone with magic is going to have a huge advantage in doing this.  In turn, magic is going to be much more popular there than in any other part of the nation.B.) The post-event political status of that area of the nation.  Texas and parts north has traditionally had an inordinate amount of influence in national politics, particularly in the middle of the twentieth century.   In the wake of this event, I see that area as not simply becoming politically signigicant but also politically unique.  Texas Democrats have been particularly important to all significant American political action from the thirties on till the 80s and now Texas Republicans run the nation.  The high plains from Amarillo north developed America's only significant third party.  What happens to America if that political acumen doesn't so much swing around as develop its own identity?Here's a hint:  the dead-zone is going to rather swiftly turn from a point of crisis to one of pride.  Cowboys with guns and wands.Audience's who don't think a preacher is worth his salt if he don't enthrall them.Politicians who know you gotta sling a little spell the same way Texas politicians today all gotta hunt dove.Then throw in the progressivism?  And the renewed tension with Mexico?And the lack of an oil boom.  Combined with having to develop finessable technologies.  Eco-socialist, Yee Hawing, jazz and polka playing, horse riding, pyramid style public works building, literal sabre rattling, power politicing, wizards.I can't tell you how gleeful I am considering what that would be like thrown into a magical investigation style campaign.  Mulder having to report to a smiling drawlin congressmen who explains that, "Aw, that chupacabra ain't no problem or mystery.  You just wait right here, and me and my boys I'll bring it right back for ya."  The man futzes around for a while, before brining out to matching exquistiely metalworked wands and asking, "Do you want that barbequed?" holds up one wand, "or Eddison fried?" holds up the other.</blockquote>

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