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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kylara" data-source="post: 2585940" data-attributes="member: 34850">Yea, Knight Otu, that is what I was trying to point out, sorry if that didn't come across clearly Brother Shatterstone.My point is that the more world history that we have to make up the longer this is going to take, and there is a much higher likelyhood of turning people off because that history doesn't jive with what they think the Game World History should be.  If you simply say that the Game World is our world, right up until the event, it fills in all of that world history that we would be fighting and arguing about if we had to make it up.  Its much simpler to come up with only 2-3 years of history immediately surrounding the event then to have to fight and argue about 90-100 years of world history if say the Event that diverged our world from the Game world in say 1910 or 1920.We want the setting to be something people can readily understand and have a feeling for, thats not as hard when the world is the world we have all grown up in, and only 2 or 3 years are different, versus a world with a 90 year alternate timeline to digest.</blockquote>