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<blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 2929324" data-attributes="member: 40166"><p>I don't see why it is a necessity. Most worlds are large enough to accomodate a lot of books. Traveller's Imperium was literally ten thousand systems. Even if you confine yourself to one continent of one world, you could sell quite a few books going over each country, each area. Planescape was infinite, and the possibilities of Sigil alone could have justified several more books. There's a lot to be done without advancing the timeline.</p><p></p><p>And on the flip side, you can encompass 20 years of history without blowing everything up. If you start in Europe in 1950, there's a lot of interesting changes in the next 20 years without radically alterating the setting. But it seems like every game designer would rather start their game in the equivalent of Europe in 1910, so they can rewrite everything the players like about the setting by advancing it 20 years, and then when people get used to that, do it all over again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="prosfilaes, post: 2929324, member: 40166"] I don't see why it is a necessity. Most worlds are large enough to accomodate a lot of books. Traveller's Imperium was literally ten thousand systems. Even if you confine yourself to one continent of one world, you could sell quite a few books going over each country, each area. Planescape was infinite, and the possibilities of Sigil alone could have justified several more books. There's a lot to be done without advancing the timeline. And on the flip side, you can encompass 20 years of history without blowing everything up. If you start in Europe in 1950, there's a lot of interesting changes in the next 20 years without radically alterating the setting. But it seems like every game designer would rather start their game in the equivalent of Europe in 1910, so they can rewrite everything the players like about the setting by advancing it 20 years, and then when people get used to that, do it all over again. [/QUOTE]
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