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<blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 5293947" data-attributes="member: 80487">I agree that a unifying moment in time, a common reference point, is a more convenient basis.I seem to recall that Swords and Glory -- a new game -- was officially set a bit in &quot;the future&quot; of what had been presented in Empire of the Petal Throne. Maybe it gave the official story of what became of Baron Ald's &quot;weapon without answer&quot;. I don't know whether Gardasiyal continued that, or whether GOO's Tekumel: EPT is set after however many novels were published in the interim.I have no interest in doing the homework to duplicate the &quot;canonical&quot; course of events in Prof. Barker's campaign. The fun for me is not in looking up which contender for the Petal Throne will win, or that there shall be a civil war with such and such outcomes.The fun for me is in actually playing the game to determine what happens! The fun is in creating the &quot;future history&quot;!Is that not what Barker, and Gygax, and Greenwood, and Arneson, and Hargrave, and other &quot;big shot&quot; referees were up to in the first place over so many years? From whom were they taking dictation?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ariosto, post: 5293947, member: 80487"] I agree that a unifying moment in time, a common reference point, is a more convenient basis. I seem to recall that [i]Swords and Glory[/i] -- a new game -- was officially set a bit in "the future" of what had been presented in [i]Empire of the Petal Throne[/i]. Maybe it gave the official story of what became of Baron Ald's "weapon without answer". I don't know whether [i]Gardasiyal[/i] continued that, or whether GOO's [i]Tekumel: EPT[/i] is set after however many novels were published in the interim. I have no interest in doing the homework to duplicate the "canonical" course of events in Prof. Barker's campaign. The fun for me is not in [i]looking up[/i] which contender for the Petal Throne will win, or that there shall be a civil war with such and such outcomes. The fun for me is in actually [i]playing the game[/i] to determine what happens! The fun is in [i]creating[/i] the "future history"! Is that not what Barker, and Gygax, and Greenwood, and Arneson, and Hargrave, and other "big shot" referees were up to in the first place over so many years? From whom were [i]they[/i] taking dictation? [/QUOTE]

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