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I need to ask whose photos you used as pictures for alt-Castro and alt-Khrushchev because they don't even turn up even by doing a reverse Google Image search.

I'm surprised nobody brought up chicory yet, because this is what actually Romans used to drink (that is, chicory roots "coffee") and what continental Europe drank as a whole during the blockade on British imports at the time of Napoleon's Continental System.

A little off-color consideration I had as inspired by some recent readings. It is rather well known that Romans did not actively ban or suppress the local deities cults, but rather either with the support of Roman authorities or even Romanized locals the worship continued, if only by taking the...

Interesting, maybe I can help provide some background. When I read this part what came up to my mind was this old Japanese map which, according to the Harvard University in which is stored, was printed in the 1850s during the Tokugawa Period. I went to check and there were indeed several...

Rather than being about aftermaths, this is about alternate history implications in the backgrounds, but in the movie "The Invention of Lying" it is explained at the start that since prehistory human beings never developed the ability to lie or make up facts. This hardwires them to also say the...

In my perusing of alternate history stories, I have found that there are way too many that, as they progress into the timeline, fail to take into account or give little to no importance to natural events which instead occurred OTL and left a significant mark/impact on history as a consequence...

Decided to join the MotF contest again ater a year or so since I though the theme was up my alley, really surprised at how few entries we had this round. Hope I didn't jinx it or anything.

--- The Crisis of the Third Century and the unexpected Age of Exploration To say that the turmoil that hit the Roman Empire in the IIIrd century was a near-death experience is no exaggeration, but it surely also served as a wake up call for its people. While Rome concentrated on bringing the...

And here's the map

A near-future scenario based on a certain sci-fi B-movie by the same name, that I hold too much dear for my own good. Probably more time and thought went into rationalizing the plot, than the director did to write the original script. Oh well... --- POD: 1945(?) Local time: 2019 Does anyone...

I couldn't help noticing there has been lots of first-timer this round (including myself, of course). Well, as a participant I guess it's also my duty to chip in my vote. I want to say I reall respect SRegan's map skills, but it kinda bothers me that the map itself doesn't really show Europe at...

And here's the map. Whoefully eye-hurting, aliased version can be found here.

Some ad-lib included There have been many scholarly debates concerning the downfall of Europe and the dramatic shrinking of their influence in the worldy affairs. Unfortunately, the events and circumstances leading to the current state are still a matter of heated discussion, not least because...

Decided to try my hand with another TORG scenario. Aside from the usual quotes from the guidebook (a very generous amount of it, indeed), this is my personal interpretation of TORG's Cyberpapacy home world.

Thanks for your detailed post, democracy101. To be honest, I'm already fairly aware of the controversy over the existence of Mimana, but I like the aura of mistery surrounding it which in hindsight is why I couldn't help using that name. :p I have to disagree on the part about the name not...

Decided to test a few GIMP tricks on what can only be described as a bad example of Etruscan-wank. (Note: since the known vocabulary is rather limited, I might have taken a few liberties with the toponyms)

It's supposed to be territories overrun by monstrosities. The dashed lines are territories once held by the Victorians and Chinese but lost in the onslaught. Sorry if I didn't clarify it in the picture.

A simple map of the world from TORG's Orrorsh scenario with some annotations taken from the game's guidebook. TORG may not have as many interesting worlds as GURPS, but some seems worth mapping. Never played a single tabletop RPG in my life, by the way.

Posted it somewhere else before, might as well post it here to ask for some serious evaluation. Something I threw together in a couple of days. While I already had the entire scenario in my mind for quite a while, I still decided to take a tongue-in-cheek approach in some regards. This time I...