Recent content by modernoni

I'd say you should look into Doc Holliday for a bit of inspiration. A classically educated, intelligent dandy who had to leave his home back east for the drier, warmer southwest. With a little tweeking, he could be the ideal model for a Holmesian character. At little Doc Holliday, a little...

Yeah, I'm not really interested in getting involved with the project proper, not a big fan of Lovecraft's personally. Just thought I'd pop in and say, remember, guys, keep it tongue-in-cheek. Last thing we need is another cult forming around something a bunch of people decided to write up one...

For the most part I'm gonna attempt to maintain kayfabe. That being said, this is still WCW I'm focusing on early on. There will be some things that break kayfabe and, if I proceed into the millennium, I'll probably focus A LITTLE on non-kayfabe things. But for the most part, I intend to focus...

"...This is where it all began, Hogan. Three years ago. This is where it all started. This is where you betrayed them all. All your fans, all the little Hulkamaniacs, everyone. Everyone who ever believed in you. This is where you spat in their collective faces. And tonight, Hulkster, this is...

Would Tuscany have helped Aragon in that war or fought against them? From the extremely limited amount of research I've put into it, I can't find any claims of them taking one side or another in the conflict. Is this accurate? What could motivate them to take part in the war, even just enough to...

Hey, guys, I'm really not extremely knowledgeable when it comes to the details of medieval history. Frankly, I barely have a working knowledge of the era which is somewhat embarrassing when I find myself trying to write something set during that period. Which leads me to why I'm here. I come...

Every now and then I'll play a game of Civ IV that I can get really into. Be it creating a Roman Empire that never falls in Rhye's and Fall of Civilization or making Japan an industrial powerhouse and colonial empire from 1000 AD onward, sometimes I really enjoy my games. So much so that, on...

I thumbed through it at the local Walden Books several months ago, read the attacks I liked the most from the book. It was pretty decent.

I'll grant you that. Humans are completely capable of living entirely peaceful lives just as they are capable of living an entire life without sex or living their live devoid of religious practice or belief. But the fact that people can live without doing these things does not disprove my point.

To quote Cicero, "Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God." Theological inclinations of my own aside, I believe it's impossible for the concept of God or gods not to develop. It's human nature and it's a constant. Like warfare and fornication, it will never go away...

How could it have been possible for Japan to have experienced a lighter economic crisis in the 1990s? I'm looking for a small POD that will alter the world from OTL as little as possible, save for the economy of Japan. I'm not looking for a stop to the economic crisis, just something to slow it...

Your challenge is to create an enduring Cao Wei Empire in China with a POD (or several PODs) at any time prior to the death of Cao Cao in AD 220. This Empire must survive and prosper until at least the 15th century.

I seem to recall FX airing some films several years ago which dealt with potential disasters. At the time, I suppose they were speculative fiction, but now I think you could look at them as alternate history. I think they aired around 2004 and I recall two of them. One dealt with an extreme oil...

Not necessarily. The gun misfiring would still put the inhabitants of the box in shock for a moment so he's be able to draw his side arm and possibly tackle the President from behind, stabbing him at least once before the military officer who had accompanied Lincoln was able to react or before...

Wouldn't it have been more likely that, should Booth miss or his pistol misfire, he simply drew his knife and proceeded to attempt the assassination with the blade? Lincoln was a large, large man, but a knife can kill big guys just like everyone else. And if I recall correctly, Booth was pretty...