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Alt History RPs?

I know the Ming are where things get very repressive. But Mongolian conquest was pretty much the reason the Ming were so totalitarian if I recall- they didn't want to get conquered by Nomads again. Than they got conquered by nomads again (well, technically they had them take control since everyone was sick of the Ming, whatever).

The point of departure is more in limiting the influence of neo-confucianism somehow, so the market society the Song had isn't nipped in the bud.

I figured if neo-confucian influence was reduced it may cause the series of events that eventually lead to a industrial china, though saying industrial china does ignore that a Chinese Industrialization would look a hell of a lot different from Britain's. And than things just get more different from there when you consider how different a Europe invaded by mongols would be or what of India or what of Chinese contact with the New Worlds and how different that can play out from Spanish conquest... okay I can definitely see your point. Hard enough to do alt history alone, imagine a dozen people with totally different skill levels and knowledge bases!

Probably could work better as a fantasy RP where a china-like culture (or hell, even some culture very different from anything on our world) that has a global hegemony over a diverse world I suppose, similar concept but much easier to work with?

Alt History RPs?

How much appeal do alt history roleplays have on this site?

I have an idea for a alt history RP that involves a successfully industrialized china that has a global hegemony of tributaries (no, china doesn't conquer the world, simply has global cultural influence of varied degrees) (and a somewhat detailed idea of how this even came about in my head- basically neo-confucianism doesn't successfully nip industrialization in the bud and the southern song successfully rebuff the mongols a la greece vs persia (the mongols than get chased out of the north, where than Ganghis or one of his sons decide to invade the weaker, but still wealthy nations in the west)... This given 500 or so years leads to a world where the middle kingdom is the domineering force of the world, unchallenged from heights of Tibet to the distant Americas (or whatever china would call the place)).

Thing is, i'm unsure if many people would play it here since I go around advanced and don't see that many alt histories around here. Am I just looking in the wrong place or is alt history just not a big thing here?

When I see two or more threads with names that remind me of those threads

Idiot boy.

Trying to come up with cool character names like:

I just smasha bunch of words together from different languages for my aliens. Than make some bullshit syllabic alphabet for the names of the aliens. It works for fantasy creatures too.

So who wants to meet the Cyrcp?

Or the alien engineer Cyvkyim Vnyyp Kzpp? Maybe it will teach you the secret of anti-gravity if you can pronounce its name right.

For people I just look up baby names like Aaron apparently does.

What happens when you combine too much LSD with world building

No one likes this thread.

sad face.

Sum up your week in roleplaying in just 3 words

Its dead, Arawak

What happens when you combine too much LSD with world building

You get this.

Go on, have a look around and report your findings.

We recommend watching :Cucks vs. shitlords

Couldn't be much worse than getting MrEnter in your recommendations on a regular basis just because you clicked on a spongebob review once.

I've learned to prune my youtube history on a regular basis as to avoid getting unwanted content.

A Push for Original Content: Universes/Settings, Characters, and Tales.

There's some original RPs around. I'm part of one that's a hell on earth post apoc that's shaping up well and there's a medieval RP called starless that's a original medieval RP. There's original RPs around, but they tend towards the sections where world building is more elaborate like Advanced from what i'm noticing.

Reading RPs that you are not part of...

I make occasional attempts, but it's hard to follow RPs you are not a part of because you won't understand shit if you don't read the apps half the time and even than (especially with more advanced RP) you usually are following multiple plotlines. It gets confusing extremely fast to say the least.