Re: [HoE] The Timeline. (What did we do for 100 years?)

["Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

>Heya
>Been wondering this for a while and if its been covered, I'm sorry to
>bring it up.
>     Hell on earth is great fun and I love the setting but .... there is
>nothing in the game to show why it is set in the remarkably familiar
>year of 2094.
>     By Familiar I mean that almost every weapon, every car, and every
>piece of equipment (Beyond a few token neat future things) is vintage
>1990's. not 2090's. I don't mind the fact the stuff is so familiar, it

Actually, the Cyborg Sourcebook (and to some degree, the implications of the 
Junker SB) pretyt much establishes the "tech".  Although I'll grant that the 
wartime applications don't seem to have trickled down to the 2083 general 
public as much as might be expected.

[various snippage]

>1985 or the 1970's. I hate retrofitted the timeline for my posse to
>place the game in the year 2019 because even my players have been asking

An amusing note is that whoever wrote the Tar Monster entry for the 
Muties/Monsters book seems to agree with you.  They note that Martin Wilson 
killed his father George Wilson in 1976, and that the ghost bombs then 
dropped "two and a half decades later."  Which would place the Apocalypse in 
2001, according to this entry (?!?).

>David Heth
>"<BLAM BLAM BLAM> Hey Nazi!  That's American for "I am over here!""


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