GURPS Infinite Worlds Covers
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Only if you can't imagine Adventure and Challenges other than the life-or-death kind.
Look up the game CATastrophe, spawn of 4chan's tabletop games (or /tg/) forums; a post-apocalyptic paradise made up of sunny beaches and fluffy-eared post-humans who spend their days playing games, partying, and occasionally going for treasure hunts looking for Shinies left from the long-vanished Earless precursors.
Or you could have a game about some wannabe Rockstars/J-Pop Idols/Dancers/whatever, focusing on the careful balance of personal and public relations, the challenges both mundane and unique to their chosen profession.
Or a game about bungling wannabe Mad Scientists, trying and failing to produce anything of notice, interspersed with part-time jobs and bulk-purchases of noodles in order to manage their rent and still fund their schemes.
Or daring Explorers, going where No One has Ever gone Before, expanding the horizon, meeting new and interesting people, and totally not imposing Manifest Destiny on them in the form of Superior Culture and Technology. Also, [primary colour] alien space babes, because you know they'll show up at some point.
A utopia would be free of conflict of any kind. GURPS includes worlds that effectively have no violence in them; there's a Siva parellel where almost every country gave up having a military after a nuclear WW2. There's still interpersonal, social, and class conflict there, and still a lot of problems, so it's interesting to play.
That's not a utopia, that's a clockwork machine, and applied on a societal level, you get something utterly, horrifyingly inhuman, one way or another.
Even the literal Utopia, as in the original book by Thomas More, had law & order, crime & punishment, politics and businesses.
Dixie-4
Part 2
Scrambles for the Americas
1850 the CSA had recovered from the Civil War and decided to restart the project of an annexation of Texas (and probably some other territories, especially after the beginning of the gold-rush in mexican California). Soon the annexation leaded to a war between the CSA and Mexico. But Texas had changed since 1844. The german and irish immigrants were out of several reasons not happy with the inclusion in a nation dominated by slavery and protestantism. They showed no sympathy for the confederated cause, sometimes even rejected him, which let to clashes between the immigrants and confederated troops and even to two local massacres on german civilians. After news of this crossed the Atlantic, a major outcry occurred in the german press. Karl Marx, the editor of the radical newspaper “Trierer Zeitung” was the first to call for intervention to protect Germans against “bloodthirsty slavers”. Helpful for such an intervention was that the built up of a german navy had been a popular issue during the Unification. The new navy consisted mostly of former civilian ships and would have been no match for a real naval power, but it allowed the Germans to send a expedition force across the Atlantic. Britain, undisputed ruler of the waves, decided to tolerate the “little german adventure”, as long as it didn´t endangered the flow of cotton from the South to Britain.
The strength of the german Amerikakorps was limited and the logistics a nightmare, but still the Germans made a difference and helped the Mexicans to push back the confederated invasion. This let to open civil war in Texas, were the German and Irish settlers formed the government of the Freistaat Texas. To gain more supporters, the Free State proclaimed the emancipation of the slaves in Texas. With german support the Freistaatler won the civil war. Texas and Mexico were now part of an german zone of influence. German investment helped to develop both. To get more internal stability, Mexicos elites made a catholic german prince emperor. Texas would 1862 become the first outer-european state of the German Empire.
In Europe itself, the year 1853 saw the outbreak of a war, which was called in Homeline the Crimean War and on Dixie-4 the Russian War. On Homeline Prussia and Austria stayed neutral and regionalized the War, on Dixie-4 Germany and Austria formed with Britain and France a anti-russian alliance, leading to a much greater conflict. The war ended 1857, with Russia admitting defeat. Sweden gained Finland, Germany/Prussia part of the Baltics and Austria Congress-Poland and Walachia, leading to the transformation of the Hapsburg-realms into the Triple-monarchy Austria-Hungary-Poland. France demanded compensation for Austria’s gains in the East and received them, through british mediation, in Italy. Italy was reorganized on lines similar to the Plombires agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plombi%C3%A8res_Agreement. Venetia stayed with Austria, Italy never unified. Garibaldi was executed by french troops after a failed landing in Sicily.
To solidify Austria`s position in the East, the Mitteleuropäische Bund Central European Confederacy (CEC) was founded, including the Hapsburg-realms and Bavaria. Some joked that the CEC were an alliance of the austrian dog with his bavarian tail. But soon the tail started to wag the dog.
After the Russian War, Britain searched for new opportunities to secure his position in the world. It found them in Argentina.
The core province of the country, Buenos Aires, had broke away. Now Britain offered them a protectorate-treaty with favorable trade terms. Buenos Aires accepted and defeated with british help the Argentinians in the battle of Cepeda. With this the Scramble for the Americas was open. Rump-Argentina felt apart and was divided in British and French zones of influences. 1864 Britain declared a similar protectorate about Uruguay, which caused a declaration of war by Paraguay. The great european powers Britain, France and Germany founded the Triple-entente to enforce their interests in the Americas. The war lasted till 1870. Paraguay was crushed and Brazil was broken up in the name of progress and abolitionism. Southern Brazil and Paraguay were open for german settlement, France founded in the North the puppet empire Equadoria and the center with Rio and Sao Paulo came under british rule.
After the end of war the three powers negationated a number of secret aggrements, which territories of the Americana’s (this included also the CSA and the USA – just in case) would belong to whom. In the early 1870th french troops landed at Panama, the Orinoco became British and Germany conquered Cuba “to liberate the Slaves”.
The CSA took a hint and abolished slavery in 1876.
Next: Tomorrow the World
Part 2
Scrambles for the Americas
1850 the CSA had recovered from the Civil War and decided to restart the project of an annexation of Texas (and probably some other territories, especially after the beginning of the gold-rush in mexican California). Soon the annexation leaded to a war between the CSA and Mexico. But Texas had changed since 1844. The german and irish immigrants were out of several reasons not happy with the inclusion in a nation dominated by slavery and protestantism. They showed no sympathy for the confederated cause, sometimes even rejected him, which let to clashes between the immigrants and confederated troops and even to two local massacres on german civilians. After news of this crossed the Atlantic, a major outcry occurred in the german press. Karl Marx, the editor of the radical newspaper “Trierer Zeitung” was the first to call for intervention to protect Germans against “bloodthirsty slavers”. Helpful for such an intervention was that the built up of a german navy had been a popular issue during the Unification. The new navy consisted mostly of former civilian ships and would have been no match for a real naval power, but it allowed the Germans to send a expedition force across the Atlantic. Britain, undisputed ruler of the waves, decided to tolerate the “little german adventure”, as long as it didn´t endangered the flow of cotton from the South to Britain.
The strength of the german Amerikakorps was limited and the logistics a nightmare, but still the Germans made a difference and helped the Mexicans to push back the confederated invasion. This let to open civil war in Texas, were the German and Irish settlers formed the government of the Freistaat Texas. To gain more supporters, the Free State proclaimed the emancipation of the slaves in Texas. With german support the Freistaatler won the civil war. Texas and Mexico were now part of an german zone of influence. German investment helped to develop both. To get more internal stability, Mexicos elites made a catholic german prince emperor. Texas would 1862 become the first outer-european state of the German Empire.
In Europe itself, the year 1853 saw the outbreak of a war, which was called in Homeline the Crimean War and on Dixie-4 the Russian War. On Homeline Prussia and Austria stayed neutral and regionalized the War, on Dixie-4 Germany and Austria formed with Britain and France a anti-russian alliance, leading to a much greater conflict. The war ended 1857, with Russia admitting defeat. Sweden gained Finland, Germany/Prussia part of the Baltics and Austria Congress-Poland and Walachia, leading to the transformation of the Hapsburg-realms into the Triple-monarchy Austria-Hungary-Poland. France demanded compensation for Austria’s gains in the East and received them, through british mediation, in Italy. Italy was reorganized on lines similar to the Plombires agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plombi%C3%A8res_Agreement. Venetia stayed with Austria, Italy never unified. Garibaldi was executed by french troops after a failed landing in Sicily.
To solidify Austria`s position in the East, the Mitteleuropäische Bund Central European Confederacy (CEC) was founded, including the Hapsburg-realms and Bavaria. Some joked that the CEC were an alliance of the austrian dog with his bavarian tail. But soon the tail started to wag the dog.
After the Russian War, Britain searched for new opportunities to secure his position in the world. It found them in Argentina.
The core province of the country, Buenos Aires, had broke away. Now Britain offered them a protectorate-treaty with favorable trade terms. Buenos Aires accepted and defeated with british help the Argentinians in the battle of Cepeda. With this the Scramble for the Americas was open. Rump-Argentina felt apart and was divided in British and French zones of influences. 1864 Britain declared a similar protectorate about Uruguay, which caused a declaration of war by Paraguay. The great european powers Britain, France and Germany founded the Triple-entente to enforce their interests in the Americas. The war lasted till 1870. Paraguay was crushed and Brazil was broken up in the name of progress and abolitionism. Southern Brazil and Paraguay were open for german settlement, France founded in the North the puppet empire Equadoria and the center with Rio and Sao Paulo came under british rule.
After the end of war the three powers negationated a number of secret aggrements, which territories of the Americana’s (this included also the CSA and the USA – just in case) would belong to whom. In the early 1870th french troops landed at Panama, the Orinoco became British and Germany conquered Cuba “to liberate the Slaves”.
The CSA took a hint and abolished slavery in 1876.
Next: Tomorrow the World
Ahhh I just found out the demonym of someone from homeline is "Infiniter", not "Homeliner"
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I think Siva-1 fits that description more, which had a literal meme of nonviolence spread early on:
You're talking about Siva-3:
Wasn't that actually written to mock utopias and fits more a dystopia IIRC?
Where? Infinity is the organization that controls cross-travel for Homeline.
Makes sense. Infinity has a growing number of non-Homeline members, oddballs and talents recruited from countless worlds; obviously they make use of something more inclusive than 'Homeliner'. At the same time, seeing as how Homeline makes up the majority of their membership, and people from Homeline travel to other worlds via Infinity, it makes sense that everyone from Homeline adopts the term, seeing as how it sounds more cosmopolitan and 'cool' than "Homeliner".
Infinite Worlds source book. A Reich-5 nazi calls people from homeline "Infiniter scum".
I just checked in my PDF of it and I don't see "Infiniter scum" anywhere.
Alternatively, it's just what people from Reich-5 call Homeliners. I recall "Homeline" being used a lot as an adjective in the sourcebook.
I think that's the equivalent of how "US Navy" and "American Navy" are interchangeable.
I just checked my PDF copy and "Homeliner" appears 29 times throughout it.
I'd be willing to do the pre-apocalypse, unless that is what you want to make.
Ah, I didn't realize you had Lost Worlds. If you want to do it, go ahead, but if you're not planning on doing it anytime soon I'll probably do it.
I'm not too familiar with the GURPS settings, but I've been reading about GURPS Banestorm and the Yrth setting, which involves humans from the Middle Ages being more or less ISOTed to a fantasy world with orcs, elves, and dwarves. I was wondering if anyone had done a cover of it or not, as it seems like an interesting scenario. I would do it, but I don't know where to begin if I were to convert a regular map into a WorldA map.
