[P2TM Chat] The Restaurant at the End of the Multiverse III

[Ethereal Expanse]

Hello seems like my kind of place. I have pan-galactic gargle blaster and I ready to go!

[Ithalian Empire]

Thirteen I'd just like to say, for the love of God:
1) Save maps as PNG and always as PNG
2) Vary your brush size more than that. A lot more than that. The smallest details on the map should always be one pixel across, two at most.

People still use JPG?

Heathens do. Dirty godforsaken heathens who have not felt the loving embrace of the PNG.

[Pasong Tirad]

Anybody have a favorite RP they've been part of?

Mine definitely has to be New CIvilizations. There were enough restrictions that the field was narrow enough to properly filter our RP, but the sandbox element to it just helped personal creativity flourish. And since we basically had to RP as a fictional version of ourselves, we had to use literally everything we know and everything we've studied to good use. My creative writing degree and acting minor were put to well-enough use! I miss it, and I keep using it as a reference whenever RPs need writing samples.

[G-Tech Corporation]

Anybody have a favorite RP they've been part of?

Mine definitely has to be New CIvilizations. There were enough restrictions that the field was narrow enough to properly filter our RP, but the sandbox element to it just helped personal creativity flourish. And since we basically had to RP as a fictional version of ourselves, we had to use literally everything we know and everything we've studied to good use. My creative writing degree and acting minor were put to well-enough use! I miss it, and I keep using it as a reference whenever RPs need writing samples.

Aye, that was a fun one. Kinda amusing how we got such a good RP from such beginnings.

[Pasong Tirad]

Anybody have a favorite RP they've been part of?

Mine definitely has to be New CIvilizations. There were enough restrictions that the field was narrow enough to properly filter our RP, but the sandbox element to it just helped personal creativity flourish. And since we basically had to RP as a fictional version of ourselves, we had to use literally everything we know and everything we've studied to good use. My creative writing degree and acting minor were put to well-enough use! I miss it, and I keep using it as a reference whenever RPs need writing samples.

Aye, that was a fun one. Kinda amusing how we got such a good RP from such beginnings.

The original thread! Finally I can get a good look at how the guy who made the Imperium started.

[Ameriganastan]

Anybody have a favorite RP they've been part of?

Elfen High. "The Great and Mighty" Lazrian is still my favorite character I've thought up.

[Pax Nerdvana]

Anybody have a favorite RP they've been part of?

Mine definitely has to be New CIvilizations. There were enough restrictions that the field was narrow enough to properly filter our RP, but the sandbox element to it just helped personal creativity flourish. And since we basically had to RP as a fictional version of ourselves, we had to use literally everything we know and everything we've studied to good use. My creative writing degree and acting minor were put to well-enough use! I miss it, and I keep using it as a reference whenever RPs need writing samples.

I still use it for references too.

[G-Tech Corporation]

Aye, that was a fun one. Kinda amusing how we got such a good RP from such beginnings.

The original thread! Finally I can get a good look at how the guy who made the Imperium started.

Tbf I think that thread got discarded from canon... too many leavers

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

Hey everyone, for National Novel Writing Month I am writing an alternate history novel based on a world where gunpowder cannot be used to make firearms. Everything is the same up to the 14th century. I am reading some academic articles on the subject, but do you guys and girls have any ideas how a gunpowderless world would affect the course of history? I'm looking at military tactics and strategy, military technology, the place of trucks and planes in that kind of warfare, but also the societal impact and the impact on economy and politics.

[Wolfenium]

Hey everyone, for National Novel Writing Month I am writing an alternate history novel based on a world where gunpowder cannot be used to make firearms. Everything is the same up to the 14th century. I am reading some academic articles on the subject, but do you guys and girls have any ideas how a gunpowderless world would affect the course of history? I'm looking at military tactics and strategy, military technology, the place of trucks and planes in that kind of warfare, but also the societal impact and the impact on economy and politics.

From what I can tell on the Alternate History forum, chemistry as we know it is pretty fucked. Combustion itself may follow substantially different rules, and railguns are far too down the line. Crossbows would remain the go-to weapon for ranged weapons for the time being. I think you'll find the world changing a lot.

Also, what is novel month? :3

[G-Tech Corporation]

Hey everyone, for National Novel Writing Month I am writing an alternate history novel based on a world where gunpowder cannot be used to make firearms. Everything is the same up to the 14th century. I am reading some academic articles on the subject, but do you guys and girls have any ideas how a gunpowderless world would affect the course of history? I'm looking at military tactics and strategy, military technology, the place of trucks and planes in that kind of warfare, but also the societal impact and the impact on economy and politics.

Well, before combustion and petroleum, I think you’ll definitely see massed crossbows effectively replacing muskets in terms of usage in our timeline. Early pike and shot tactics could be easily adapted to use crossbows and repeating crossbows, and thence somewhat mirror OTL developments to conscription and immense army sizes.

Hmm. Probably more emphasis placed on railways to move the immense armies you would need to reduce fortresses, which wouldn’t suffer the decline cannons started. Less political centralization, because no cannons and foundries to give states a monopoly on force. Greater amounts of feudalism, with any tinpot able to put together a good stone keep able to significantly oppose centralizing armies.

In the long run you might seen things like steam-powered trebuchets and ramming engines/tanks only slowly undoing the hegemony of megafortresses.

[Pasong Tirad]

Hey everyone, for National Novel Writing Month I am writing an alternate history novel based on a world where gunpowder cannot be used to make firearms. Everything is the same up to the 14th century. I am reading some academic articles on the subject, but do you guys and girls have any ideas how a gunpowderless world would affect the course of history? I'm looking at military tactics and strategy, military technology, the place of trucks and planes in that kind of warfare, but also the societal impact and the impact on economy and politics.

Alternate History Hub makes a great case for it in his video on the very same subject. For my personal take, it might be a good idea to think about how this pretty much won't affect many parts of the world - parts that have little to no contact with gunpowder-armed powers for centuries after its discovery/invention. I'm talking about parts of Southeast Asia whose only contact with gunpowder comes in the form of Chinese junks, many parts of Africa, the Americas, and even New Zealand, whose civilization was basically unchanged until the Europeans came and said "hey go and fuck shit up with these boom boom sticks."

Hey everyone, for National Novel Writing Month I am writing an alternate history novel based on a world where gunpowder cannot be used to make firearms. Everything is the same up to the 14th century. I am reading some academic articles on the subject, but do you guys and girls have any ideas how a gunpowderless world would affect the course of history? I'm looking at military tactics and strategy, military technology, the place of trucks and planes in that kind of warfare, but also the societal impact and the impact on economy and politics.

From what I can tell on the Alternate History forum, chemistry as we know it is pretty fucked. Combustion itself may follow substantially different rules, and railguns are far too down the line. Crossbows would remain the go-to weapon for ranged weapons for the time being. I think you'll find the world changing a lot.

Also, what is novel month? :3

https://nanowrimo.org/ you're welcome. I finished this once back in 2011 in the form of a sappy novel dedicated to a girl that I was pining over. I still shiver at the thought of it.

[Rostavykhan]

People still use JPG?

Heathens do. Dirty godforsaken heathens who have not felt the loving embrace of the PNG.

The VIRGIN .jpg VS The CHAD .png

[Mister Thirteen]

So recently I’ve been juggling the idea of a “fantasy crusader” RP if you will. A small region in a “to-be-created” fantasy world is infamous for it’s Daemon worship and profane rituals. Canabilism, bestial fetishim, mass human sacrifice, using children as vents to the Daemonic realms, the whole nine yards. An order of holy crusaders, or Paladins, campaign into the region to exterminate the dark religions of old and convert the populace to their own religion.

This RP was inspired by the historical Baltic Crusade and the Vigilants of Stendarr from Skyrim exclusively. Players can choose to play as an order Paladin or a warrior or warlock of the Daemon worshipping populace. This will effectively be much like Warhammer 40K in a sense. The majority of the RP will be epic and bloody battles of intense graphics and mass destruction.

Well?... Thoughts? Input? Comments? Insults?

[G-Tech Corporation]

So recently I’ve been juggling the idea of a “fantasy crusader” RP if you will. A small region in a “to-be-created” fantasy world is infamous for it’s Daemon worship and profane rituals. Canabilism, bestial fetishim, mass human sacrifice, using children as vents to the Daemonic realms, the whole nine yards. An order of holy crusaders, or Paladins, campaign into the region to exterminate the dark religions of old and convert the populace to their own religion.

This RP was inspired by the historical Baltic Crusade and the Vigilants of Stendarr from Skyrim exclusively. Players can choose to play as an order Paladin or a warrior or warlock of the Daemon worshipping populace. This will effectively be much like Warhammer 40K in a sense. The majority of the RP will be epic and bloody battles of intense graphics and mass destruction.

Well?... Thoughts? Input? Comments? Insults?

Should include the ability to amass followers and demonic hosts

[Constaniana]

Anybody have a favorite RP they've been part of?

Mine definitely has to be New CIvilizations. There were enough restrictions that the field was narrow enough to properly filter our RP, but the sandbox element to it just helped personal creativity flourish. And since we basically had to RP as a fictional version of ourselves, we had to use literally everything we know and everything we've studied to good use. My creative writing degree and acting minor were put to well-enough use! I miss it, and I keep using it as a reference whenever RPs need writing samples.

Elfen High 2, or my baby Elementals 2.

[WolFina]

Anybody have a favorite RP they've been part of?

Mine definitely has to be New CIvilizations. There were enough restrictions that the field was narrow enough to properly filter our RP, but the sandbox element to it just helped personal creativity flourish. And since we basically had to RP as a fictional version of ourselves, we had to use literally everything we know and everything we've studied to good use. My creative writing degree and acting minor were put to well-enough use! I miss it, and I keep using it as a reference whenever RPs need writing samples.

Elfen High 2, or my baby Elementals 2.

Which I have risen from the grave specifically to let you know I'm waiting for the third of.

[Constaniana]

Elfen High 2, or my baby Elementals 2.

Which I have risen from the grave specifically to let you know I'm waiting for the third of.

I still have two more months to go on my deadline of rebooting it. You won't get it before then.

[Ameriganastan]

Which I have risen from the grave specifically to let you know I'm waiting for the third of.

I still have two more months to go on my deadline of rebooting it. You won't get it before then.

*Waits patiently*
I wanna play Eric again...

[Kassaran]

I still have two more months to go on my deadline of rebooting it. You won't get it before then.

*Waits patiently*
I wanna play Eric again...

I want to be misunderstood again play Erosen again.

[Zarkenis Ultima]

I still have two more months to go on my deadline of rebooting it. You won't get it before then.

*Waits patiently*
I wanna play Eric again...

-joins in waiting, taps foot impatiently-

[The Knockout Gun Gals]

People still use JPG?

Heathens do. Dirty godforsaken heathens who have not felt the loving embrace of the PNG.

A very good choice of words, I might add.

"Loving embrace"

[The Knockout Gun Gals]

Hey everyone, for National Novel Writing Month I am writing an alternate history novel based on a world where gunpowder cannot be used to make firearms. Everything is the same up to the 14th century. I am reading some academic articles on the subject, but do you guys and girls have any ideas how a gunpowderless world would affect the course of history? I'm looking at military tactics and strategy, military technology, the place of trucks and planes in that kind of warfare, but also the societal impact and the impact on economy and politics.

So generally no firearms. What about Chinese fire lances/fireworks, bombs?

[The Knockout Gun Gals]

Elfen High 2, or my baby Elementals 2.

Which I have risen from the grave specifically to let you know I'm waiting for the third of.

You are...Grey Wolf, I assume?

[Olthar]

Which I have risen from the grave specifically to let you know I'm waiting for the third of.

I still have two more months to go on my deadline of rebooting it. You won't get it before then.

You're going to post it December 31st at 11:59pm, aren't you?