This is mostly pertaining to Marvel and DC (but I guess soap operas, too, but do we have any of those characters? Er...) But I was wondering if anyone was interested in discussing sliding timescales.
I know, I know, massive headache to even think about BUT it's important to our playing, right? Right.
This thread in particular was really fun and
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I recall, I think it was Quesada, saying that because of the sliding timescale that the Marvel Universe is actually only around 13-14 years old. I play Peter like he's supposed to be 30, because he really reached a nice level of maturity at one point in time, but I do believe he's supposed to be like... perpetually 27-28 forever. I mean, it's kind of a preposterous system, but what else do they have? They're never going to give up Spider-man, or the X-Men, or FF or anybody else.
They'll keep building on it, sure, retconning only whatever cultural flotsam made up previous stories that they need to slide forward, but man I can only wonder how long before it becomes really difficult for them to keep a reign on.
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