Setting Seeds: Survival of the Timeliest
The time stream’s a funny thing. There are an infinite number of futures out there, but only past. Every single moment, with every choice you or anyone else makes, they’re snuffing out countless possible futures.
Not all of those futures are quite so willing to go without a fight, though. History, it turns out, is rife with the machinations of time travelers, all trying to guide world events just so that they can continue to exist.
A race of sentient cockroaches calling themselves the Eecheecheesreekheech are doing everything in their power to bring about World War III, and the nuclear winter which will snuff out humanity and allow themselves to take over the world.
They’re frequently opposed by the Shone, enlightened dolphins from a future where world peace extends not only to humans, but to all of the Earth’s creatures.
The Last Reich are time traveling Nazis, seeking Hitler’s body so that they can reanimate him to lead an army of Nazi zombies in taking over the world.
The PCs might be from the current time, concerned only with their own livelihood and what they feel is best for the world, or they might be from yet another alternate time line. In the latter case, enemies can quickly become friends and vice versa when common and competing goals arise.
Those are wonderful ideas. The cockroach one sounds pretty similar to one of the plots from Chrononauts, though!
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Ahem, I assure you, that’s purely a coincidence. >_>
I almost called this post “Chrononauts,” but I thought the name was a little too silly for what could be a pretty serious (if pulpy) setting.