Post by lordroel on Jun 22, 2018 11:01:37 GMT
Hi everybody and welcome to the ASB Board of Alternate Timelines.
This board is for discussion of alternate history that involve Alien Space Bats, time travel, magic, alien intervention and alternate histories taking place in fictional universes (Babylon 5, Star Trek, Star Wars, etc).
Here are some guidelines on what not and what to post.
ASB is not for implausible historical scenarios.
"Challenge: German invasion of Spain in 1944" is very implausible, but not ASB. "Axis Forces from Germany from 1944 appear in South England instead" is ASB.
ASB is not for worthless zero-effort threads
It should be possible to generate useful discussion from your OP. Three-word OPs, cut and paste threads that are minor changes to existing threads, or anything that you clearly haven't put thought and effort into are no more welcome here than they are anywhere else, they will be locked. There's a frivolous ideas thread for minor scenarios that aren't worth a thread on their own, that place can be found here: Frivolous ASB thread
ASB and mass death scenarios
The ASB board is for scenarios that require some thought and can generate a discussion, not for figuratively throwing a bucket of blood on the wall, thus there are in my view two mass death scenarios, the first one is mass death scenario by stupidity which are mass death scenarios where people drop a country ore large amount of people into a empty world ore drop lets say 1, 10 ore 100 billion into our world knowing a lot of people are going to die for no reason, these threads i do not approve of nor will tolerate on the forum, the second one is call mass death by scenario and that implies there is a reason behind it like mass death scenarios found in books, movies, games ore like in this, a timeline, those i can approve as they are a work in fiction.
This board is for discussion of alternate history that involve Alien Space Bats, time travel, magic, alien intervention and alternate histories taking place in fictional universes (Babylon 5, Star Trek, Star Wars, etc).
Here are some guidelines on what not and what to post.
ASB is not for implausible historical scenarios.
"Challenge: German invasion of Spain in 1944" is very implausible, but not ASB. "Axis Forces from Germany from 1944 appear in South England instead" is ASB.
ASB is not for worthless zero-effort threads
It should be possible to generate useful discussion from your OP. Three-word OPs, cut and paste threads that are minor changes to existing threads, or anything that you clearly haven't put thought and effort into are no more welcome here than they are anywhere else, they will be locked. There's a frivolous ideas thread for minor scenarios that aren't worth a thread on their own, that place can be found here: Frivolous ASB thread
ASB and mass death scenarios
The ASB board is for scenarios that require some thought and can generate a discussion, not for figuratively throwing a bucket of blood on the wall, thus there are in my view two mass death scenarios, the first one is mass death scenario by stupidity which are mass death scenarios where people drop a country ore large amount of people into a empty world ore drop lets say 1, 10 ore 100 billion into our world knowing a lot of people are going to die for no reason, these threads i do not approve of nor will tolerate on the forum, the second one is call mass death by scenario and that implies there is a reason behind it like mass death scenarios found in books, movies, games ore like in this, a timeline, those i can approve as they are a work in fiction.