RE: [Epic] The ages of Warhammer was mixing (long)

From: Miller, Chris <CMiller_at_...>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 11:15:34 -0500

>> >
>> >The only rpg/wargame that advances timelines is DP9, which their Timeline
>> >thing, which is, as they add more information, they say this information
>>has
>> >come to light this many years later. So eventually they plan to advance
>>the
>> >HG timeline 30 or so years in 6 years, at which point they will continue
>>to
>> >support HG, they are just gonna stop advancing the timeline
>> >
>> >Tyler
>> >
>> -----> Star Fleet Battles & Battletech have both done this...
>> (advanced the timeline, I mean)
>> and it's great, until it stops...
>Unless you are running old tech.
>
>Go ahead use pre clan Mechs vs Clan mechs, at even odds. It's not
>pretty.
>
>While we are at it TSR has advanced a time line in at least 2 of their
>worlds (Ravenloft and the Forgetten Realms). In the case of the
>Forgetten Realms they did 3 novels to explain why all the rules changed,
>plus issued a hardback book about the Realms after the change. A nicely
>done, if some what forced, method of explaining what happened to some
>characters classes that went away when the second editon of AD&D came
>out.

-----> They screwed with Greyhawk too with the G-Hawk Wars stuff a few
years
ago...

Chris Miller
Received on Wed Sep 03 1997 - 16:15:34 UTC