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  1. There is certainly some bias that applies to all history - I'm sure Arthur Wellesley would take umbrage with the "Napoleonic Era."
  2. There might be some misunderstanding - my point is that all labels for eras are essentially constructs and the origination of the construct is important to understanding of that construct. The Pax Romana wasn't ideal - it was military might applied to regional dissent to ensure the flow of wealth to the imperial center. This was only good for Romans and, to be fair, only some subset of Romans. But to say "it wasn't the Pax Romana because there wasn't peace and some tribes suffered under Roman rule" is to miss the point entirely. Even with a global setting like Malifaux, that context matters. The Victorian Era is not known as the American Civil War and the American Civil War is not known as the Victorian Era. There are different defining events for different regions/states/cultures that may occur in the same time frame. We are running into the issue of using a part, "the Victorian era", as a descriptor for the whole, "events on Earth that occurred during the years 1837-1901." Anyway, this has gone pretty far afield from my initial point - which is that there is no guarantee that our understanding of the Victorian Era, simplistic or not, could have occurred in the Malifaux setting because the origin of the construct, a relatively peaceful experience for Great Britain, does not seem that likely in the Malifaux setting's "Magic & World at War" that occurred after the first breach closed.
  3. RELATIVE. Relative. Relative peace. Not peaceful. Yes - there was constant conflict and strife throughout history...but to engender such a limited reading would negate terms like "Pax Romana" or "Pax Britannica" simply because some collective violence had occurred. Historians understand the Victorian era to be marked by relative peace. If you would like to cherry pick examples though, even the Franco-Prussian War that "ended at the doors of Paris" was one year long - if Europe has also known the Seven Years War, Thirty Years War, Eighty Years War, and HUNDRED YEARS WAR, would ONE YEAR not be relatively short compared to those? If you want to use Wikipedia for your research, I invite you to continue reading and following links - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_Kingdom links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_era as the main article which, lo and behold, includes as the fourth sentence: "The period is characterised[sic] as one of relative peace among the Great Powers (as established by the Congress of Vienna), increased economic activity, "refined sensibilities" and national self-confidence for Great Britain." Finally, thinking about how things receive their labels is important. For a silly example, @yool1981 could be having a great day. Everything is just awesome - it might even be part of a great overall week! You might call it "yool1981's Awesome week of Awesomeness," get some shirts made, commemorative photos, the whole deal. The number of murders in the wider world, instances of infant mortality, sexual violence, petty theft - they do not negate "yool1981's Awesome week of Awesomeness" because it is focused on you. The Victorian Era wasn't defined by the United States - the American Civil War and associated death from violence and disease did not change the British experience of relative peace. The Victorians were colonizers - the violence suffered by colonized peoples did not factor into their world view and did not change the British experience of relative peace. Rebellion in India and China were absolutely horrific, but they led to increased British control and wealth...the experience of the Sepoys and Boxers did not change the British experience of relative peace.
  4. And even more technically, as the Victorian era was marked by a period of relative peace and the freedom to focus on social policies, art, and architecture, I'm not convinced that a Victorian era as we understand it was even possible. I mean, first breach closed around 1790, right? I think the Black Powder Wars and the dependence on magic would have likely altered the timeline just slightly - can we even be sure there was a Queen Victoria in the Malifaux world? There were eight attempts on her life - surely magical fire would have made some difference. Similarly, "Victorian" is the one style of architecture that definitively, 100%, cannot be featured in Malifaux as it developed from that peaceful era on Earth while the breach was closed. I love the Malifaux setting and all of the backstory and ongoing story, but this is honestly one of the limitations of historical fiction, right? "Oh, there was magic so everything was different...except for all the stuff that is easier to leave the same."
  5. As someone who is pro-education, I'm glad to see Beast Academics get their opportunity.
  6. Ah, thank you for that clarification. Based on the hyperbole on this forum though, I'm almost 100% certain a 5-0, 50 differential showing would have nevertheless resulted in a few "well, in my meta..." type posts. Nature of the beast perhaps.
  7. Great read nomoredroids, makes me want to pick him up. To the people suggesting that this wouldn't work in the majority of competitive games, I guess I'm confused - are we saying that a tournament at Adepticon is not a competitive event with competitive games or are we saying that 80% is not a majority?
  8. I liked this story. Outside of the narrator's thoughts, there was no indication that he was anything other than some rube fresh off the train set up to take a fall. Just because he hoped to be A+, #1 Lead Investigator didn't mean the reader needed to share his delusions.
  9. As a smuggler, and therefore wanting to avoid detection, a great opportunity was missed by the orientation of the gator...picture it stomach against the guys back, a little breathing tube...could sneak across a river looking like any other gator.
  10. I've liked the bios in the Broken Promises and Ripples of Fate a lot. I find when I want additional background (what's the story with these undead camels?), the bio provides. Similarly when I have a general idea of how a miniature fits in the setting (ok, so a guild marshal recruiter recruits guild marshals. Check.), the bio gives me a nice snap shot of what "a day in the life" might look like.
  11. A couple things on feelings and opinions. People are naturally welcome to have them. I will always respect a person's right to have feelings and opinions. There is nothing inherent in that belief that requires people to respect the actual feelings and opinions. These things have a limit. If I said, in my opinion, a fantasy dwarf and a fantasy elf would never get along, that's both fine and perfectly defensible. If I said that, based on my feelings about it, The Fellowship of the Ring felt off, I'm moving onto shaky ground. My feelings and opinions are being posited as correct over the creator's feelings and opinions. Still not bad or wrong per se, but my intangible and unsupportable viewpoint is directly contradicting the creator's viewpoint. I might inhabit the world, but it is still their world. If JRR Tolkien got on a forum (apologies for the silly example) and gave me justification and support for why this particular dwarf and elf have a budding bromance, my continued intransigence makes me the problem. People are always welcome to dislike something. If they say it's because of X, and others want to point out why X is a non-factor, that's just discourse. Nobody is getting riled up (I think?).
  12. Sure, but it doesn't FEEL right to this random world traveler/historian/doctor/space ranger/ninja/badass who knows everything and says you are wrong about your own fantasy world!
  13. Teddy, Dashel, Sidir. Big chunky pieces, the easiest to assemble.
  14. Yikes, didn't want to ruffle any feathers...I'm backer #173 and am pretty close to all in. Although, for one who doesn't like implications your comment on why people want LE miniatures is a pretty heavy one. I don't know all the rules though - I don't live in a glass house. Without delving too deeply into our offline lives and knowing that everyone online is a Dr. Astronaut-Ninja-Knows-it-All, I can only assume you were also aware that there is a fundamental difference in WHEN Wyrd gets the money...while they will certainly still be solvent if someone buys at a discount from a retailer and I would never want to paint the people who purchase Wyrd products that way in a negative light, it kind of misses the point when they are trying to crowd source funding to create the project. Again, I am likely completely wrong here...if nobody backed it, surely all the options would be available in early August for sale at a retailer, right? My question on which type of person should be rewarded merely reflects that - crowd sourcing is a grey area between investor and consumer. Consumers receive goods and services in exchange for capital. Investors receive options and control in exchange for capital. Despite what people believe it to be, Kickstarter is not a "pre-order website." And nowhere did I mention them "hav[ing]" to have LEs. I merely hoped. You'll note that "hoping for LEs" is the binary to "hoping for no LEs." Do you take umbrage with my hope or is it simply that, based on your decision to not participate, you don't want to miss out on something unique? Again, you can tell by my post count I don't know all the rules. If the entire community believes that "hoping for some small token of regard in return for passive investment of an untested property" is intrinsically wrong, it's the first I've heard of it.
  15. I'm hoping you guys provide some Limited Edition miniatures for the people willing to back your vision now...while I've seen some complaints about LEs on the Kickstarter comments, there also seems to be a proportion of "supporters" stating that they will wait to buy at a discount from retailers in the future. I guess it comes down to the type of person you want to reward...?
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