On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Kurt Feltenberger <[email protected] > wrote:
> On 5/15/2013 1:36 PM, Onno Meyer wrote: > >> Still, the main setting for 4E is a time-and-dimension-traveling >> campaign, so this time travel setting should be possible. (Pet >> peeve: 1632 is time travel, not alternate history.) >> > > Would it not be both since the time travel aspect has caused it to now > become alternate history? I don't agree with them but for real purists alternate history is just a what-if history with no outside force changing it. Usually small events happen in different ways, causing large changes. In my opinion 1632 is both time travel and alternate history because the time travel caused large changes in all of history. I think a story is just time travel if it only affects a few people. Dr. Who is time travel because he doesn't wildly alter historical events. (Usually). Figuring out story genres can be very difficult. Are fantasy romance stories fantasy or romance? What if they're futuristic sci-fi? What if they're the J. D. Robb stories that have romance, mystery and sci-fi all rolled together? Not easy. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
