Time Wars by Simon Hawke

[kjamma4]

I'm a big fan of Simon Hawke's Time Wars series. Briefly, it takes place on Earth in the future - a future where time travel is possible. The governments of the future no longer fight wars in their time but rather send soldiers back in time to fight using a formula to see who won.

The series revolves around a group of soldiers who are sent back in time to prevent historical paradoxes and then branches out to have them going against the temporal underground (terrorists who want to stop time travel), the Network (a rogue subgroup of the TIA - Temporal Intelligence Agency who use time to further thier own ambitions), and finally an alternate history who have been suffering attacks on their timeline due to excess energy from warp grenades (a combination time warp and nuclear device) bombarding them. Good stuff.

Has anyone run a Time Wars campaign or something similar? I know that time travel presents a lot of problems and dealing with time paradoxes can be problematic.

Thoughts?

P.S. I have GURPS Time Travel. Very helpful but if possible, I'm looking for more specific info.

P.P.S. Anyone have a writeup on warp grenades?

[input.jack]

I loved the Time Wars books. Ive played in one game loosely based on them, but the GM hadnt really read them closely, so he got alot of things wrong with "how the system worked". (He insisted that the future was Utopian, for example, when clearly it was not)

As for warp grenades, Id guess that they are about a 15d6 Killing Attack, Area Effect Radius, with a limitation that they have only about a 3" radius, or less. (As I recall, they could be "dialed down", but even at best their destructive radius wasnt too great an area)

[Inu]

Is that the series where they jump back into various literary settings? "The Pimpernel Plot" and other stories?

Loved them, had forgotten who'd written them. Haven't seen 'em since I was in school.

[kjamma4]

As for warp grenades, Id guess that they are about a 15d6 Killing Attack, Area Effect Radius, with a limitation that they have only about a 3" radius, or less. (As I recall, they could be "dialed down", but even at best their destructive radius wasnt too great an area)

I'll check the books sometime this weekend but I recall they could be dialed down to as small as one room in a building up to a city block. It was a nuclear bomb and the time device "warped" out the excess energy, supposedly to the middle of another galaxy.

I would put the damage at WAY higher than 15D6 (most likely, there would be some handwaving by the GM involved due to the total devastation that should occur with a nuclear blast.)

[ChaosDrgn]

Your correct about the gernades...dialed down to a room or enough for a city block. Any excess blast was "supposed" to be warped into space where the radiation was neligiable.

Yeah, the books involved the Pimpernell Plot, etc. I used to have all the books, they've disappeared over time though Maybe I'll check the half-price storesa round her enad see if I can find them.

I ran them under Time Master and 3rd Edition Champs. Never really found anyone who was enough into the series to run it for 4th.

[Harakani]

I ran them under Time Master and 3rd Edition Champs. Never really found anyone who was enough into the series to run it for 4th.

Wow.
I loved the Time Wars books.

And you actually played Time Master!?!?! That was my first non D&D book. I must've bought it... wow... a LOOOONG time ago.

How does it play?

Harakani

[clsage]

Is that the series where they jump back into various literary settings? "The Pimpernel Plot" and other stories?

Yep...Such as "The Ivanhoe Gambit","The Zenda Vendetta", "The Nautilus Sanction" just to name a couple more...

-Carl-

[ChaosDrgn]

How does it play?

Harakani

Doing Time Wars through Time Master, pretty good. Also played Chill and Space Master, though to be honest I've forgotten 3/4 of the stuff since then. I've been tempted to pick up the Time Master pdfs and try to port some of the stuff over to 5th.

Beware the hordes of the Liliput Legion!

[ThothAmon]

Jan Claude Van Damme - Time Cop