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Originally Posted by chico20854
I have to agree with Kato, these timeline arguments are pretty useless, unnecessarily divisive and at this point unlikely to result in anything positive.
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Enhh. You know what they say about arguing on the internet...
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The 2013 timeline, which I have not yet read beyond the teasers that have appeared over the last few years, has a number of fantasy elements in it. Over the years, we as a group have had a number of discussions like this thread started out as, of what could cause a breakdown of civilization of a scale equal to the one described in v1. We've discussed terrorism gone wild, rouge nations, environmental meltdown, economic collapse - the gamut of suvivalist paranoid wet dreams. The 2013 guys have put a lot of work into developing one that they have been able to agree on, put their own money into publishing and have committed to support further expansions of. It's different from what I would have written if I was given that job, but that's fine and I'm glad that they did - anything that brings new people into the Twilight community is good IMHO. That timeline may be harder for us to accept, partly because we in many ways are old Cold Warriors, have more experience and knowledge under our belts, or just disagree.
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I think one of the fundamental points of contention here (in a general sense, not just Chico's statements) is whether anything called "Twilight" reasonably can be set in the aftermath of anything but a Cold War gone hot.
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At this point, I think arguing with what 93 Games has published is pretty futile - they have too much time and money invested and at this point it is a "done deal". If you want to use their timeline, go for it. If you want to use the 2013 rules to play the v1 timeline, great. If you don't want to send them any money and keep playing the same game that's been around since 1984, fine!
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Well, I'll admit that I'd like to get paid sometime soon, but none of us have ever threatened to kick in people's doors and take their previous editions away. That's really more of a FASA thing.
- C.