>A setting where the timeline broke so hard you have modern

>>46570641
>you have modern era soldiers fighting cavemen, civil war soldiers fighting WW2 soldiers, and medieval knights sword fighting sci fi robots.
No, you do not.
You may have one side killing lots of guys on the other side, but you can't have a real fight.

Realistically, sooner or later the side with a lower technological level would get their hands on old weapons from the superior side (which is why Civilization is unrealistic), so you get a situation like in the middle east.
But in your scenario where they just stick to their traditional weaponry there is no way they can put up a fight.

>>46570920
>I have no imagination.

>>46572970
How do you "imagine" them to fight?
All the modern guns just *happening* to malfunction at the same time?

>>46572970

I have imagination, but I also have a limit to how far I can suspend disbelief. The first anon was right: the concept is silly bullshit.


But... silly bullshit can work, if you make a 100% pulp setting that doesn't even try to be serious or sensible.

I guess you could use the old standby of Divine/arcane intervention of some kind to sustain the setting premise too, in which case it might be possible to make something a bit darker..

>>46573171
That's more or less what I mean't, afterall who would try to make a serious campaign out of such a asinine setting?

>>46573348

Then that settles the tone part. For the set-up premise, how about everyone is from "outside" the timeline, maybe part of an agency that tries to repair chronological anomalies. Possibly not necessarily all human. They have to navigate the madness to achieve whatever goals they've been given (e.g get to X, deploy and activate chrono-stablizer, get back out alive, then do the same at Y, Z and that place in Houston where the hairy girls party)

>>46570641
>>46573171
let's see what there is to work with

modern era soldiers: they've got modern nations and modern technology backing them up, mostly realistic but with unrealistic logistics and production and coordination, drones are cheap as popcorn.

Cavemen: super human strength and durability on par with that of the dinosaurs they regularly fought.

Civil War soldiers: superhuman marksmanship and horse riding ability, guns can shoot more than they should be able to both and ammo capacity and penetration power.

WWII soldiers: allies get pulp plot protection and grit, the axis has Nazi super science don't forget the bases in both hollow earth and the moon.

Medieval knights: a bit more free-form, divine blessings, magic, did you know that there was a werewolf in the Knights of the round table? Don't be afraid to make it a fantasy potluck.

The sci-fi robots are sci-fi robots.

>>46573544
Possibly, or just have the players be a part of the madness as they play straight man to a ever wackier world.

>>46570641
You wouldn't be able to have any time/place stabilize for very long or all of these people will just adopt whatever works best from each other until you effectively have a modern/futuristic scifi anyway. Look how quickly American Indians were to adopt horsemanship and guns. Or tribesmen in Africa using cellphones and shit. Just because people throughout history hadn't developed the educational base and infrastructure necessary for modern technology yet doesn't mean they'd be any less capable of understanding it than you are, if they were exposed to it.

>>46573665
Well yeah, however there is no reason for cavemen to be using rifles especially if we let them ride motha fukin dinosaurs.
>bases in both hollow earth and the moon.
So Wolfenstein?

>>46573790
>there is no reason for cavemen to be using rifles
Yeah who wants rifles when you have slings?

>>46573823
>Not liking slings better than rifles.
>Especially when your stronk as fuck.
pleb.

>>46573790
basically yeah, why not? It's one of the things people keep saying about them. Saucer Nazis from the hollow earth.

>>46573884
Rifles are more precise than slings.
The only reason why rifles are as weak as they are is because our soldiers are so weak.
If you have stronger soldiers, there is no reason not to make stronger rifles.

>>46573922
Not like cavemen can figure them out, they would have to loot them even if they did know how to use then effectively.
Give a rocket launcher to a civil war soldier and tell him to find effective use for it, he won't because he has no idea how to use it correctly. Not to mention how hard it would be for such a era to mass produce rockets.

>>46570641
We call it Rifts.

>>46574019
>Not like cavemen can figure them out,
You underestimate the people who invented the fucking concept of tools.
Besides, there is plenty of opportunity for cultural exchange.
Modern general realizes that cavemen are big brutes.
Modern general would like his soldiers to be big brutes.
Modern general offers to hire a few cavemen in exchange for things they have never seen before: Good steaks, fine porn, big guns.

>>46574180
So Ogryn?

>>46574019
I don't think civil war soldiers would have much trouble finding a use for a rocket launcher after figuring out how to shoot it. They did have artillery you know...

>>46574355
Yes but a rocket launcher is made for vehicles, while a artillery is much harder to get out of the way of because it's harder to see coming.
People would notice a rocket coming right at them and using it on a wagon would be overkill.

>>46574409
>People would notice a rocket coming right at them
RPGs travel about the same speed as a musket ball.