4e Worldbuilding - Expanding on the canon timeline

[Heffe]

Hi everyone,

Due to FL being decidedly vague about what's happening in the rest of the world beyond Poland and Sweden in their official publications, a few weeks ago I decided to embark on a quest to expand upon the 4e canon timeline.

As a result, I split apart the canon timeline into a google doc, and am planning on slowly filling in details about remaining countries over the coming months/years. I'm also hoping that if other members of the community would like to contribute timelines for various nations, that over time this might evolve into a sort of community "approved" default timeline for the 4th edition. I say approved in quotation marks, because I realize (and have already received this feedback) that with the many strong personalities on this board and in the community, it's unlikely that all of us will ever agree on something so complex as an alternate world history leading to the 3rd world war and beyond. With that said, I still feel as though it's a worthwhile undertaking, in the hopes that future players will have a more complete picture of the Twilight War beyond what FL has given us thus far. I do plan on updating the documents as new official material gets released.

Without further ado, here's a link to the spreadsheet for anyone that missed it in the other thread:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing

Some info/disclaimers -

• If anyone is interested in lending a hand, please respond here or shoot me a DM (or hit me up in the 4e discord). I did have to lock down permissions on the doc to prevent trolling.
• If this doesn't interest you, no worries. I get that this kind of thing isn't for everyone. My genuine hope is that eventually, some content creators will decide to make use of the information herein to help flesh out their own created modules, and it would be neat to have the community contribute that kind of a resource.
• This is purely a side/passion project for me. I don't expect to ever make money off of this endeavor, nor do I ever intend to try to append a price tag to the doc. In other words, if it ever goes up on DriveThru it'll be done as a free download, or at most, a "Pay what you want" with a free option. I'm not in the business of trying to make money off of other people's hard work (as proof of my motivations, I spent many hours creating the 4e Referee Aids and put them up for free download).
• I'll be posting timelines for various countries on this thread - please feel free to leave your feedback/thoughts. If stuff is garbage, please don't be afraid to say so, but I'd ask that criticisms try to be constructive.
• These timelines, in keeping with FL's precedent, will continue to be fairly high level/strategic background information. If someone wants to expand into various intra-country regions, or even locales in the various nations, that can absolutely be supported, but I'm of the opinion that a lot of more detailed information such as unit names/dispositions/locations can probably be safely avoided, or at least left to better minds than mine.

Lastly, I see this as a pet project, and nothing more. I have real world experience as a project and program manager, and think my skills could come in handy in organizing things, but my intent is for this to be a community-led endeavor. In short, if the majority of the community hates the content that comes out of this project, then it'll just become yet another niche resource that folks can choose to use or ignore. If no one here feels like contributing to the project in the first place, that's okay too, and it will remain my own little side thing.

Thank you, and I look forward to hearing your feedback.