Alternate Dimensions

[taalismn]

Exactly the same as now only the star wars prequels were never made......

Jar Jar who?

I had a good two minute reflection then before clicking submit. Powerful stuff.

yes jar jar was the worst thing that happaned to star wars as kfc happened to chicken

Like watching a bad stereotype in a rutabaga costume.
Though I'd pay to see Jar Jar punched out by Ne'vi Avatar'ed Jake Sully...

[taalismn]

im planning on doing a rifts campiagn set during ww2 or after i should say. the rifts tore open in 1942. the magic level is still real high but not mdc levels, still most governments fall save for the big 5. any ideas on how i could do this... my mind took a big brain fart

Use Ninjas and Superspies and Beyond the Supernatural for your OCCs and equipment, maybe even Palladium Fantasy for additional magic and monsters. The old Palladium Compendium of Modern Firearms is enough out of date that many of the weapons are WW2 era, or could be seen as logical 'futuristic' weapons created by the pressurization of research under wartime stress. Aliens Unlimited could be used to represent energy weapons and 'super science' weaponry created in Big 5 laboratories by reverse-engineering alien tech.

[taalismn]

Just got the MIck Resnick-edited book 'Alternate Outlaws'(it's library booksale season).....Among some of the alternate takes: JFK was a serial killer(Lee Harvey Oswald was really a police officer who cracked the case and set up the whole assassination to save the Free World from Jack the Ripper), Elvis Presley fought alongside Castro, and Queen Elizabeth never became Queen of England, but faked her own death to travel to the New World and carve out a pirate kingdom along the northern coast of South America.

[taalismn]

What if Custer had gone into the Black Hills not to FIGHT the Indians, but to HELP them oust the miners who were there illegally?

[TiekoSora]

Following the disgraceful rule of the Emperor Commodus (son of Marcus Aurelius) and his assassination, instead of appointing a new emperor immediately, the senate retakes authority, changing back the name of the city to Rome (Commodus changed it during his reign) and while appointing a Caesar in the traditional quasi-hereditary fashion, limits the powers of office to that similar to what the Queen of England posesses now.

Christianity continues its slow growth in the underground, eventually becoming mainstream. The line of emperors as we know from history is unchanged, and while it is still called the Roman Empire, the form of government is actually a republic. Justinian never sees his "sign from God" and does not convert to Chritianity, thus the Catholic church never rises to power. The Empire expands in all directions, through military campaigns as well as diplomatic annexation of various regions. All of the British Isles are conquered by 440 AD, and firmly in control by the Roman legions.

As the Empire moves east, following the footsteps of Alexander the Great, other religions are encountered, introduced to the Roman citizenry, and new philosophies embraced. Hinduism remains strong in the Indian sub-continent, and bhuddism makes its way west, becoming the dominant religion of the Empire by 1100 AD. The Dark Ages never happen although plague does spread across Europa. Instead of the many millions that die, the loss of life is only a few hundred thousand due to the sanitation and engineering projects built by the Romans as they advance their borders. The Rennaisance occurs but not for the same reasons. Peace abounds in the Empire, which spread from all of Western Europe to Southeast Asia, all of the Middle East and all of Northern Africa.

Jews are no longer persecuted and many governors in the region are Jews. As Islam begins to grow as a religion, the often radical views clash with the goals and ideals of the Empire. The Crusades are actually one of a series of wars not to liberate the Holy Land, but to eradicate Islam as a political force. Many legions are sent as reinforcements, and ultimately, Islam is all but wiped out. It does not spread as one of the world's major religions, and small secretive pockets of worshippers maintina the radical fundamentalist views, continuing to stir up trouble in the region for many centuries. Most followers of Islam denounce the radical beliefs, and settle in as relatively happy citizens of the Empire.

Key figures of the Rennaisance period are also key in the Empire. A new age of artisitic creativity abounds, agricultural science, engineering all advance greatly. At this time the industrial revolution begins as well, heralded by Da Vinci and his magnificent inventions. Through their conquering of the Scandanavian peninsula, the Romans have discovered knowledge of a vast new world to the west across the Atlantic, and prepare for expansion. Expansion east results in the conquering of the majority of what is modern China. Steam engines are developed that can power a ship to move across the waves without sails. By 1220 AD a small fleet of steamships is ferrying settlers and legions across the Atlantic to the Roman settlements in Newfoundland. Interactions with the native tribal people is positive, resulting in very few armed conflicts.

By 1400 AD, virtually all of the eastern seaboard of North America is annexed and settled by Rome. The Iriquois Nation is fully adopted into the Empire, swearing loyalty to Rome and retaining their own government and lands. The agreement grants access for Rome to all of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River waterways. This allows Rome to bypass Iriquois Nation lands to gather much needed resources and an easy road to get them to market. By 1500 all of the eastern part of North America is Roman territory. Slavery has been all but abolished for years, though the tradition of indentured servitude remains. Technology level is equal to mid-nineteenth century thought the emphasis is on hydropower, as the secrets of electrical power generation has been discovered and mastered in the last 40 years.

By 1620 expansion across the western half of North America is stalled. Treaties with the native nations declare all but a few parcels of land off limits for expansion. Expansion instead shifts south into Mexico and Central and South America. Armed with gunpowder weapons and the new automated chariot (internal combustion automobile) the legions easily conquer all who stand against them. Instead of laying waste to the native cultures, Rome allows them to coexist if they swear loyalty to Rome. Aztec and Mayan culture is all the new fad in the old Empire, and instead of dying off due to disease, medical technolgy of Rome's surgeons innoculates most natives with vaccines preventing mass plagues and loss of life.

By the beginning of the 21st Century, Rome is established as an almost universal government. Through treaty, the Souix Nation (which itself has grown, wiping out rivals or absorbing them into their own culture) cedes all of what is now Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and most of Kansas to Rome for settlement and agriculture. The move is not popular among some of their established communities many of whom are forced to relocate. The new land open up massive agricultural options for Rome, and in return the Souix Nation gains a gret deal of wealth and political clout. Technology level is easily equal to current tech, however literally all power generation is completely green. Cold fusion is still elusive however solar, wind and hydro power supplement nuclear fission power plants.

Various region have some manner of unrest, no longer happy living under the shadow of Rome. There is a colony and mining operation on the moon and planned manned expeditions to Mars.

[taalismn]

Excellent addition there with a well-thought-out progression of altered history!
Welcome aboard, fellow dimensional traveller and chronicler!

[taalismn]

Columbus runs into the side of the fishbowl.

[taalismn]

A group of private British investors fund the development of a successful 'aerial steam carriage' in the late 1800's, giving hte British Empire an early monopoly on flight(and heavier-than-air aircraft design), prompting crash programs, imitation, and stepped-up technological espionage among the other nations. Unable to match the Brotish mastery of the air, some nations turn to other fields...biology(yielding biological weapons), naval design(submarines), rocketry, and electrical engineering(rail guns? Lasers?).

[gaby]

21 states of 1917,s USA exchange Places with ther 1861 counterparts.
What would you think would happed?

How would the Confederacy fight a much more powerful North?

What do you think is the reaction of Europe?

[taalismn]

the whole part of that country might be evacuated because the government doesnt know whats going on. people would be screaming in the US about the end of days, and then the people around the world would have heard of this sudden displacement of time. depending on the states there could again be a new peoblem with slavery. although a war might not happen, depending on the mililtary tech left over by the states that remained and did not dimensionally leap. aand last but not least germany would have won ww1.

the confederacy would have either lost much sooner or reverted to vietminizing the US

europe in the later case would be freaked out and america might be quarintined. the worlds economy might go bankcrupt due to the end of the world whackos

Agreed...You can't just go around swapping out chunks of history without the firest reaction being religious hysteria at the inexplicable instead of calmer and more avant-garde minds going "Now everybody just calm down! It seems to be some sort of temporal juxtaposition ! No reason for everybody to become agitated, We're sure it's perfectly explainable, and if we investigate and observe, a rational explanation will present itself to our inquiries. What? Let me use smaller words..."

[taalismn]

Depending on whether or not you believe in the authenticity of the infamous Zimmerman Telegram(in which Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany offered to assist Mexico if the Mexicans came in on the side of Germany and invaded the southern United States), the apparent loss of a (more) industrialized American South(and affiliated naval and army units) would be a great temptation to Willy....ship the Mexicans Krupp-made cannon. maybe even cut a deal with the Confederates on the same terms....Here, have some Maxim Guns!

[gaby]

Tell me what you think 1917 US would do in 1961?

[taalismn]

Tell me what you think 1917 US would do in 1961?

Occupy space.

[gaby]

sorry 1861

[taalismn]

sorry 1861

Occupy space on the map.

[taalismn]

Tell me what you think 1917 US would do in 1961?

try to beat up thee minorities to the jitterbug

Spanish Influezna epidemic...wait, that was 1918.

[Gazirra]

A birthing chamber from a distant, doomed world accidentally goes through a time warp to Earth's ancient past...
.. and ends up at the feet of a young slave named En Sabah Nur...

[taalismn]

Tell me what you think 1917 US would do in 1961?

try to beat up thee minorities to the jitterbug

Spanish Influezna epidemic...wait, that was 1918.

yes blame the spanish. that way nobody will realize that i am producing a massive army of duck-soldiers.. muhaaaaa. damn i dont have enough BIO-E to give them flight

Well...wings tend to rather thin on meat, as opposed to the drumsticks...

[Kovoston]

Behold as I ramble on...
Heroes Earth loses S.C.R.E.T. to government cut backs and changes the U.N. views on mutants and aliens allowing the aliens back to Earth. Atlantis never sinks and is a democracy led island nation. North America went democratic instead of republican in 1970 (meaning Nixon was never president--and never went to China). A new operative organization is created and stamped as covert operations (eventually called the OKN - Operations for Kremlin Nationalists turning the near majority from Communism, thus causing almost tribal governmental leadership). The Louisiana Purchase never occurred, causing the "French coast" to be similar in state to French Quebec Canada) and allowing Mexico to gain some territory into what would have been Arizona. The entire staff of City Hall in Mexico City are turned to vampires and dragons are discovered in a cave in Madagascar.
Germany held on to Northern Italy during WW2 and the Euro was established ten years earlier than in our world (meaning Greece would have gone belly-up ten years quicker). Japan held the supremacy on bio- chips and the inflation of the dollar counters the rise of recessionary times. Cars are already electric by the late 70's (meaning the Exxon spill and the spill in the gulf never occur). The virus causing the Zombie Apocalypse fails in clinical trials but NEXUS becomes sentient (goes on-line) twelve years later! True Atlanteans form a pact with the council of alien newcomers to fend off the threat of Reanthanor incursions thus inciting the view that magic should be introduced into the arsenal of all human nations.
The moon has two moon bases and the planet Mars has been visited by, not only humans, but colonized by aliens.

[taalismn]

Wow....that was a machine gun burst of altered history!

The Gulf Oil Spill is revealed as part of a long-standing British conspiracy to 'get even' for losing the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812.

[Kovoston]

Wow....that was a machine gun burst of altered history!

The Gulf Oil Spill is revealed as part of a long-standing British conspiracy to 'get even' for losing the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812.

Thanks, I'm pretty good with 'altered history'. Now what did I do with those solar panels?

[gaby]

Oil is discover in israeli,today what is the effects?

[taalismn]

Oil is discover in israeli,today what is the effects?

The IDF doesn't have any worries then.

[gaby]

1950s US get téléport to 1900,how would the 1900,s world react?

What would the US,s people do to changed things?

[taalismn]

1950s US get téléport to 1900,how would the 1900,s world react?

What would the US,s people do to changed things?

You realize, don't you, that the Temporal Authority(the TimeCops, ChronoFuzz, the EternityEnforcers) are vectoring in on you to bust you for jigsawing temporal geography?
Likely sentence is to be exiled, by yourself, with only the most basic means of survival, to either before animal life emerged onto solid ground, or to a time before the next Big Crunch, before Earth gets swallowed by a giant black hole?
How will you react?

[Kovoston]

1950s US get téléport to 1900,how would the 1900,s world react?

What would the US,s people do to changed things?

You realize, don't you, that the Temporal Authority(the TimeCops, ChronoFuzz, the EternityEnforcers) are vectoring in on you to bust you for jigsawing temporal geography?
Likely sentence is to be exiled, by yourself, with only the most basic means of survival, to either before animal life emerged onto solid ground, or to a time before the next Big Crunch, before Earth gets swallowed by a giant black hole?
How will you react?

So... How do you know they (the supposed 'authorities') are out to stop such an act. They may want this to occur.

[taalismn]

So... How do you know they (the supposed 'authorities') are out to stop such an act. They may want this to occur.

For every action, there is an opposite reaction...for every authority, there is an anti-authority(or somebody who thinks those authorities are facist pigs). For every amateur or casual hobbyist casually ripping apart time and space for snits and giggles, there's some hidebound, age-old, monolithic agency that thinks that's a really bad idea...or somebody who was -IN- one of those temporal/spacial displacement events who's mighty annoyed, especially if it was a DELIBERATE act, and thinks that it's high time somebody did something about it, even if it means(ESPECIALLY if it means), they get to introduce the responsible party's skull to a high-swung atomic clock.

[Kovoston]

Behold as I ramble on...
Heroes Earth loses S.C.R.E.T. to government cut backs and changes the U.N. views on mutants and aliens allowing the aliens back to Earth. Atlantis never sinks and is a democracy led island nation. North America went democratic instead of republican in 1970 (meaning Nixon was never president--and never went to China). A new operative organization is created and stamped as covert operations (eventually called the OKN - Operations for Kremlin Nationalists turning the near majority from Communism, thus causing almost tribal governmental leadership). The Louisiana Purchase never occurred, causing the "French coast" to be similar in state to French Quebec Canada) and allowing Mexico to gain some territory into what would have been Arizona. The entire staff of City Hall in Mexico City are turned to vampires and dragons are discovered in a cave in Madagascar.
Germany held on to Northern Italy during WW2 and the Euro was established ten years earlier than in our world (meaning Greece would have gone belly-up ten years quicker). Japan held the supremacy on bio- chips and the inflation of the dollar counters the rise of recessionary times. Cars are already electric by the late 70's (meaning the Exxon spill and the spill in the gulf never occur). The virus causing the Zombie Apocalypse fails in clinical trials but NEXUS becomes sentient (goes on-line) twelve years later! True Atlanteans form a pact with the council of alien newcomers to fend off the threat of Reanthanor incursions thus inciting the view that magic should be introduced into the arsenal of all human nations.
The moon has two moon bases and the planet Mars has been visited by, not only humans, but colonized by aliens.

not bad i like this one added a little bit o everything to create something unique. that is until the keiser from my/taalismn world find out how to use temperol energy as a weapon and destroy your world... but other than that

Thank you... I think...
Better be careful with T.E., it could mutate you into something 'less pleasant...'
And as far as destruction of such a world, there may be someone out there that would want that world out of the way just to get at your world.

So, why not pay someone else to do the job... I have just the group for you! He he.
And they are cheap!
Please consider this offer... (Grins then vanishes)!

[taalismn]

Temporal Weapons You Might Never Have Heard Of:

*Spare Time Drain---Simply drains off all available spare time; mundane tasks seem to take forever, and you can't walk away from them. NO spare time, no vacations, no moments to yourself...only unrelenting grinding WORK....

*Spare Time Overcharger---The opposite: you have TOO MUCH spare time, and it never goes to anything USEFUL like readying defenses, or coming up with the next scientific breakthrough...all everybody does is stand around, picking lint off themselves, watching paint dry, and waiting for Godot.

[taalismn]

it would be funny

and btw taalismn you are evil, but a good/funny evil

I may have to try getting that on a button or a T-shirt:
"I'm Evil, But It's a Good, Funny, Evil."

[taalismn]

After the SDF-1 crashes on Earth, the Zentraedi show up, and politely ask for there ship back.

And being told 'No", the fifty-foot giants pout, cry, throw a little temper tantrum on global television, then go away.

As a result, several civics groups and parental organizations send protests to the UN/UN-Spacy, declaring them to be 'meanies' for not returning the big aliens' spaceship.

[TiekoSora]

The Zentraedi fold into Earth orbit just as the finale for the latest season of American Idol is airing. Mesmerized, they fail to attack. Months later, the bulk of the Zentraedi fold in to eliminate these rogue Zentraedi just as the final episode of the NEXT season of American Idol airs. Lynn Minmei is relegated to being a waitress in her parent's resturant for the rest of her life.

(Yes I know the show didn't exist back then, but then again, the Zentraedi are also fictional.)

[taalismn]

The Zentraedi fold into Earth orbit just as the finale for the latest season of American Idol is airing. Mesmerized, they fail to attack. Months later, the bulk of the Zentraedi fold in to eliminate these rogue Zentraedi just as the final episode of the NEXT season of American Idol airs. Lynn Minmei is relegated to being a waitress in her parent's resturant for the rest of her life.

(Yes I know the show didn't exist back then, but then again, the Zentraedi are also fictional.)

A force of Zentraedi mecha/commandos crash the stage-set of AI, believing it to be some sort of weapons complex.

The judges are non-plussed: "Seen it before..."

[taalismn]

A history-line where NO American celebrity died a tragic(or stupid) death....Buddy Holly Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper don't die in a plane crash, Elvis lives to a ripe old age, Marilyn Monroe doesn't OD(in fact NOBODY ODs)....So so many celebrities don't go on 'at the peak of their game', but instead live long enough lives before dying of natural causes to show how to age gracefully, remake themselves, or utterly destroy what credibility they have left. Certain mythologies about celebrity never arise, and certain celebrities never gain immortality in untimely death, while others prove they aren't one-trick ponies.

[Kovoston]

hidden civilization encased in a self-contained environment, buried deep (2 miles?) somewhere on Antarctica.

At the Mountains of Madness...you just gave me a great idea for a BTS adventure!

Anyways, for ideas for multi-dimensional...

An Earth where magic never 'died' and is fully integrated into modern society along with technology.

Chlorophyll is blue instead of green.

A dimension where water sinks when it freezes.

The Earth and Moon are the same size, but the moon has a total mass double that of Earth.

Or if you just want bizarre, put the players in a culture where something completely unfathomable as being normal is not only normal, but expected (along the lines of not only are you expected to go to the bathroom in front of guests, but it is considered an insult not to do so).

A world where combustive chemical reactions just don't work.

Sounds like Erick Wujick's Amber Game....

[taalismn]

Waffen SS commando extraordinaire Otto Skorzeny makes the mistake of his life when he insists on riding with deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini after the latter's daring rescue from Italian constabulary. Overloaded, the Fieschler Storch aircraft fails to pull up after plunging off the plateau where Mussoline was held(in actual history, the pilot, one cool number if they ever made them, pulled up with about two hundred feet to spare) and instead smashes into the ground, killing all aboard. The Nazis get a black eye publicity-wise when the details of the debacle manage to leak out, and the SS is bereft of one of their best hatchetmen. Skorzeny ISN'T available to stop the Hungarians from surrendering to the Soviets and turning on the Germans, he ISN'T around to order hundreds of infiltrators into Allied lines in American uniforms to sow chaos during the Battle of the Bulge, he isn't around to help smuggle valuables out of the warzone for fleeing Nazis, nor is he around later to help with the ODESSA organization helping to hide fugitive Nazi party members. While the war isn't significantly shorter for his absence, it IS shorter(The Russians plow through Hungary even faster, even with the resistance of diehard Hungarian nationalists and fascists opposing them), and it's a LOT more uncomfortable for the Nazis after the war to get away.
Since Mussolini was already on the outs with the Italians, and contributed very little, if anything, aside from the propaganda value of his technically impossible rescue, to Hitler's machine, his untimely death has no real effect on history(except possibly even more ridicule for an even more undignified death than being killed by partisans..."Killed because a big hulking German tried to squeeze into an itty-bitty airplane with him! And it was the guy who'd just rescued him! HAH!").

[Kovoston]

Waffen SS commando extraordinaire Otto Skorzeny makes the mistake of his life when he insists on riding with deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini after the latter's daring rescue from Italian constabulary. Overloaded, the Fieschler Storch aircraft fails to pull up after plunging off the plateau where Mussoline was held(in actual history, the pilot, one cool number if they ever made them, pulled up with about two hundred feet to spare) and instead smashes into the ground, killing all aboard. The Nazis get a black eye publicity-wise when the details of the debacle manage to leak out, and the SS is bereft of one of their best hatchetmen. Skorzeny ISN'T available to stop the Hungarians from surrendering to the Soviets and turning on the Germans, he ISN'T around to order hundreds of infiltrators into Allied lines in American uniforms to sow chaos during the Battle of the Bulge, he isn't around to help smuggle valuables out of the warzone for fleeing Nazis, nor is he around later to help with the ODESSA organization helping to hide fugitive Nazi party members. While the war isn't significantly shorter for his absence, it IS shorter(The Russians plow through Hungary even faster, even with the resistance of diehard Hungarian nationalists and fascists opposing them), and it's a LOT more uncomfortable for the Nazis after the war to get away.
Since Mussolini was already on the outs with the Italians, and contributed very little, if anything, aside from the propaganda value of his technically impossible rescue, to Hitler's machine, his untimely death has no real effect on history(except possibly even more ridicule for an even more undignified death than being killed by partisans..."Killed because a big hulking German tried to squeeze into an itty-bitty airplane with him! And it was the guy who'd just rescued him! HAH!").

Nice Little Alternate!

[taalismn]

Yeah, the more you read about the whole Mussolini rescue, the more you realize just how easy it could have been swecked...especially by Otto's insistence on flying out with Benito.

[taalismn]

good naririative. we need more of those. taalismn get to work.... "sound of whip cracking"

Only if you help remove a forty foot tree that came down in my yard....(picks up saw and gestures to the foot-plus thick trunk laying across another tree and set of clotheslines)....seems Mother Nature's determined what I'll be doing with my spare time for a while.

[Kovoston]

good naririative. we need more of those. taalismn get to work.... "sound of whip cracking"

Only if you help remove a forty foot tree that came down in my yard....(picks up saw and gestures to the foot-plus thick trunk laying across another tree and set of clotheslines)....seems Mother Nature's determined what I'll be doing with my spare time for a while.

What part of the country (on Earth) do you live Taalismn??

[taalismn]

good naririative. we need more of those. taalismn get to work.... "sound of whip cracking"

Only if you help remove a forty foot tree that came down in my yard....(picks up saw and gestures to the foot-plus thick trunk laying across another tree and set of clotheslines)....seems Mother Nature's determined what I'll be doing with my spare time for a while.

What part of the country (on Earth) do you live Taalismn??

check my avatar; I live in New England...
Well, I'm waiting for the chainsaw men...
I'm also waiting for another tree to fall...what with thunderstorms rolling through , the way the thing's tilting, it's just a matter of time...only good thing is it's a bit farther out with less risk of hitting the house.
Birds seem to love the downed tree, though...it's like a big 'ol jungle jim to them.

[DD The Shmey]

The geography of the world, specifically elevation, changes such that the seven contenents become oceans and the oceans become one big continent. Furthermore humans are rare, and the world is ruled by two new warring factions; a group of High Tech Fairies that build human sized mechs with gatling guns and plasma cannons, war against a race of amphibious octopus with powerful magic.
The capitol city of the octopus consists of a bunch of tall spires with one big huge spire atop of which they opened a rift to a water world, and there is a never ending waterfall coming down. The fairies meanwhile have built fleets of airships with fire bombs and long range torpedoes.
...
Also, the fairies aren't all unified, they are a bunch of factions that sometimes war among themselves including a Chinese style one, an Celtic one, and an ancient Greek style one. Remember though they are all high tech too.
ummm...
Theres also lots of pterodactyls that like to eat both the fairies and the octopus,
and the octopus have made allies with the interdimensional Naut' Yll empire
hmmm...
Oh yeah, and none of the fairies technology is water resistant, it just sparks and fizzes out when you squirt it with water (save to negate effects), Hence many of the octopus are water warlocks.
thinking...
Oh and one of the fade towns from rifts earth regularly fades into this world too.
...
ok your turn, guys add some more onto this crazy one

[taalismn]

The geography of the world, specifically elevation, changes such that the seven contenents become oceans and the oceans become one big continent. Furthermore humans are rare, and the world is ruled by two new warring factions; a group of High Tech Fairies that build human sized mechs with gatling guns and plasma cannons, war against a race of amphibious octopus with powerful magic.
The capitol city of the octopus consists of a bunch of tall spires with one big huge spire atop of which they opened a rift to a water world, and there is a never ending waterfall coming down. The fairies meanwhile have built fleets of airships with fire bombs and long range torpedoes.
...
Also, the fairies aren't all unified, they are a bunch of factions that sometimes war among themselves including a Chinese style one, an Celtic one, and an ancient Greek style one. Remember though they are all high tech too.
ummm...
Theres also lots of pterodactyls that like to eat both the fairies and the octopus,
and the octopus have made allies with the interdimensional Naut' Yll empire
hmmm...
Oh yeah, and none of the fairies technology is water resistant, it just sparks and fizzes out when you squirt it with water (save to negate effects), Hence many of the octopus are water warlocks.
thinking...
Oh and one of the fade towns from rifts earth regularly fades into this world too.
...
ok your turn, guys add some more onto this crazy one

GIANT anti-aircraft squirt guns for the octopi.....

[taalismn]

Octopi..oh, the thinly veiled jokes there!
Their military headquarters...the Octagon.
"The Floor will now hear Senator Cthulu from Ry'leyh District!"

[taalismn]

After beating the Russians and the British, then chastising the Americans to saty out of the war by V-2ing several American cities with atomic weapons, the Nazis settle into remaking Eurasia into the Ayran paradise they envision...Hitler dies(of natural causes, excerbated by dogma-trained Nazi doctors) relatively early, leaving his cronies to argue and fight over his legacy before settling into an uneasy peace where each of them carves out theor own separate tribal district(Goering taking France and England for instance, and Himmler taking over vast chunks of conquered Russia), all the while protected by theor powerful U-boat, rocket, and aviation corps.
Himmler sets out to turn back the clock by seeking to recreate the 'ideal' Ayran nation; agricultural, dogma-driven, racially-pure settlements surrounded by transplanted and force-grown European forest, where future SS are born and raised.
Of course, this clashes with Goering and Speer, whose slave work force in France, England, and the Low Countries are forced to work overtime to compensate for Himmler's eccentric agrarian paradise(which naturally isn't turning out the skilled technicians and industrial resoucres the Reich needs to survive), and befopre long, the Reich has lost its technological edge. Within several decades, the Reich leadership is too busy fighting with each other, and the supposedly impenetrable 'Fortress Europa' is showing obsolence in its defenses. The supposedly decadent West, long believed to be either too cowed to continue bloodshed, or collapsing under its own unworkable democracy, manages to build up its own technology away from the peering eyes of German spies and surveillance, until the day the Third World War erupts, as a new generation of war machines sycthes across Himmler's unprepared Ayran paradise....

[Princedarkstorm]

How about the Coming of the Rifts occured in 1000 AD which has the gates of the Demons and Devils overruling Earth ? Strong faith magic and enchanted weapons ?
Or BOY AND HIS DOG style setting but instead of psi dogs make them Dog Boys instead ?

[taalismn]

The Aztecs weren't ripping the hearts out of people because of religious sacrifices or because they needed the protein; no, a combination of advanced holistic medicine and surgery with obsidian blades allows the Aztecs to perform successful surgical procedures, including organ transplants. They're harvesting organs to keep their aristocrats and priests alive, and dressing it all in religious connotations.
The same grasp of medicine allows the Aztecs to resist the spread of European-introduced (and quite a few local) epidemics. The knowledge of medicine also leads to a grasp of chemistry equal, if not superior to, that of the Europeans. When Cortez begins gathering Indian allies to wipe out the Aztecs, the Aztecs bring out chemical weaponry against their massed enemies. Poison darts of a lethality never before seen and gas weapons are used on Cortez's unprepared armies, bringing their cohesion, and a number of Spanairds are taken out with anesthetic darts, to be questioned and studied.
When the Europeans find out what the Aztecs are doing, they're horrified, and a religious crusade is pretty much launched, but there's also a few Europeans are looking to save some of that Aztec medical knowledge, and perhaps recruit Aztec healers/surgeons....

[Princedarkstorm]

Magical armor .Holy Rune armors .even weird TW that is steam powered instead ?

[taalismn]

What If...?

The Mechanoids’ original creators hadn’t rejected them?
(expansion on an earlier idea)

“Artema, thank you for coming in today.” The silver-domed Doc-Brain murmurred as the young woman in the paper smock came in and sat down in the chair in the center of the chamber.
“It’s no big deal. I mean, it’s mandatory I have a regular wellness checkup, right?”
“Still, I understand and appreciate the sacrifice of time away from your work. There has been much discussion and interest in your latest artistic endeavours. Our sessions aim to insure you have many, many years of good health in which to pursue your creative inclinations. How are you feeling?”
“I feel good, healthy. Like I always do. Nothing different since last time.”
“Let’s make certain of that. Now just settle yourself down, lay back---mind the somatic restraints; they’re for your safety---calm thoughts, and let’s take a look, why don’t we? That’s it...I’m sensing a little tension, not to worry...”


Just as it sez; the Mechanoids’ original creators didn’t reject them, creating the genocidal, maniacal killer cyborgs of legend. Instead, the humans welcome their creations back, apologize contritely for the deaths of the earlier Mechanoids, and accept the gifts of knowledge and know-how that the Mechanoids have brought back from their journies across the universe. New legistlation paves the way for full acceptance of the Mechanoids into human society, and the new lifeforms are hailed as cultural heroes with full citizenship and the ability to hold office. Thus bolstered and strengthened, the Atlantee-Mechanoid Republic becomes THE power to be reckoned with in their corner of the universe. Naturally, though, with their superior abilities, the Mechanoids quickly rise to dominate the new political-social entity, but they always rule to the betterment of their human creators. In many ways, the new powerbloc resembles Iain Banks’ -Culture-, with happy people living in an AI-dominated and -directed post-monetary paradise. The arts flourish, disease is eliminated, immortality a certainty, and any enemies(and there are many, envious of the Republic’s prosperity and power) are driven off by legions of steadfast and courageous cyborg warriors and their fearless robot soldiers. The Republic is poised to begin exploring extra-dimensionally, furthering the scope of their knowledge and power.
If these Good Mechanoids were ever to encounter the Good Splugorth, they’d quickly become fast friends, and nearly unstoppable power of Good in the Megaverse. If the Good Mechanoids were ever to encounter the (Evil) Mechanoids, the result would be a war that would rival the Minion War between Dyval and Hades in scope and ferocity.
All is not peaches and cream within the Republic, however. While the humans have long since delegated management and technical professions to the Mechanoids, to focus on more creative endeavors instead, there are those humans who fear that they’ve given up TOO much, and seek to reverse the trend of dependence on the Mechanoids, or to escape their grasp altogether and establish a wholly Human society. Conversely, there are those Mechanoids who feel that Humanity is just too fragile to survive the dangers of the universe, and either the entire species must be altered like the Mechanoids themselves into some form better suited to survival, or they must be closeted away from ALL dangers. In a situation akin to Jack Williamson’s ‘With Folded Hands’, humans have become essentially pampered pets of their creations, and the more aggressive Mechanoids are not above using their psionic abilities to ferret out discontent among their charges, and use psychic and technological means to eliminate such feelings in the humans under their care.

[Kovoston]

What If...?

The Mechanoids’ original creators hadn’t rejected them?
(expansion on an earlier idea)

“Artema, thank you for coming in today.” The silver-domed Doc-Brain murmurred as the young woman in the paper smock came in and sat down in the chair in the center of the chamber.
“It’s no big deal. I mean, it’s mandatory I have a regular wellness checkup, right?”
“Still, I understand and appreciate the sacrifice of time away from your work. There has been much discussion and interest in your latest artistic endeavours. Our sessions aim to insure you have many, many years of good health in which to pursue your creative inclinations. How are you feeling?”
“I feel good, healthy. Like I always do. Nothing different since last time.”
“Let’s make certain of that. Now just settle yourself down, lay back---mind the somatic restraints; they’re for your safety---calm thoughts, and let’s take a look, why don’t we? That’s it...I’m sensing a little tension, not to worry...”


Just as it sez; the Mechanoids’ original creators didn’t reject them, creating the genocidal, maniacal killer cyborgs of legend. Instead, the humans welcome their creations back, apologize contritely for the deaths of the earlier Mechanoids, and accept the gifts of knowledge and know-how that the Mechanoids have brought back from their journies across the universe. New legistlation paves the way for full acceptance of the Mechanoids into human society, and the new lifeforms are hailed as cultural heroes with full citizenship and the ability to hold office. Thus bolstered and strengthened, the Atlantee-Mechanoid Republic becomes THE power to be reckoned with in their corner of the universe. Naturally, though, with their superior abilities, the Mechanoids quickly rise to dominate the new political-social entity, but they always rule to the betterment of their human creators. In many ways, the new powerbloc resembles Iain Banks’ -Culture-, with happy people living in an AI-dominated and -directed post-monetary paradise. The arts flourish, disease is eliminated, immortality a certainty, and any enemies(and there are many, envious of the Republic’s prosperity and power) are driven off by legions of steadfast and courageous cyborg warriors and their fearless robot soldiers. The Republic is poised to begin exploring extra-dimensionally, furthering the scope of their knowledge and power.
If these Good Mechanoids were ever to encounter the Good Splugorth, they’d quickly become fast friends, and nearly unstoppable power of Good in the Megaverse. If the Good Mechanoids were ever to encounter the (Evil) Mechanoids, the result would be a war that would rival the Minion War between Dyval and Hades in scope and ferocity.
All is not peaches and cream within the Republic, however. While the humans have long since delegated management and technical professions to the Mechanoids, to focus on more creative endeavors instead, there are those humans who fear that they’ve given up TOO much, and seek to reverse the trend of dependence on the Mechanoids, or to escape their grasp altogether and establish a wholly Human society. Conversely, there are those Mechanoids who feel that Humanity is just too fragile to survive the dangers of the universe, and either the entire species must be altered like the Mechanoids themselves into some form better suited to survival, or they must be closeted away from ALL dangers. In a situation akin to Jack Williamson’s ‘With Folded Hands’, humans have become essentially pampered pets of their creations, and the more aggressive Mechanoids are not above using their psionic abilities to ferret out discontent among their charges, and use psychic and technological means to eliminate such feelings in the humans under their care.

OMG, this is the best one yet taalismn! Beauty!!

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