[UA] Looking for the Hollow History WWII thread

[James Knevitt]

One thing like this I'm going to include is an idea lifted right from
Jack Womack's "Elvissey". My version goes something like this:

"On June 14, 1954, the same day Reichsfuhrer Admiral Karl Doenitz
added the words "unter Gott" to the Nazi Pledge, 19-year-old Elvis
Aaron Presley put a .45 revolver to the back of his mother's head and
pulled the trigger.

Of course, we have never heard about this event, because it never
happened. At least, not to our recollection. Instead, on America's
Flag Day, President Eisenhower added the words "under God" to the US
Pledge of Allegiance and the young Elvis Presley is played on radio
for the first time three weeks later."

Ideally, the PCs will come across little tidbits of "false history",
with more of them popping up as they proceed into the true history of
the world.


On 6/26/07, David Tormsen <tormsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thats an awesome campaign.
>
> One thing I'd try to do if I was running it would be to assume that
> the universe is lazy, and tries to cut as many corners as possible.
> Basically meaning that outside of the major effects of the spell (the
> Nazis losing the war and dominating the world), other historical
> events are the same. So their post-WW2 history is very similar to
> ours, only darkly crack'd. Everything: Beatlemania, Hippies, Vietnam,
> Yuppies, the Gulf War, Seinfeld, the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Internet
> culture, South Park: they all would possess close (or as close as
> possible) analogues in the other Nazi-run world. If done badly it
> could look cheesy and contrived, but if done well it could combine the
> familiar with the sinister.
>
> The more the PC's found out about the real history, the more they
> would find that items in their possession would revert to their 'true'
> Naziworld forms. If it looked too cheesy I'd have the historical
> analogues go up to only about 1960 (the time of the Nazi moon landing)
> and then say the timeline diverges.
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James Knevitt
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"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that
English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow
words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways
to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
   --James Nicoll