Re: NAC - American style [LONG]

>New thought: -- maybe Jon's timeline is more interesting (to players) 
than Jon expected.  Might explain why most player histories are 
variations of it.  (Not that there is anything wrong with that.)

I think it's more that the GZGverse is widely known among the players
and
people would rather have something familiar, in part because more people
are going to be interested.  I pay attention to the the NAC, NSL etc
because I know I'll have opponents who use them; I don't pay attention
to
the People's Republic of Mars because I won't see them on the table.

And I suspect people stick close to the GZGverse because it's less work.

That's we we see a lot of "It's the regular GZGverse except X", where X
is
"YANBAC" or "Yet Another New Confederacy" or adding a new planet or two
(Alarishi Empire, New Israeli, New Nepal, whatever).  Even then, many of
the new additions aren't what I would call overwhelmingly creative--and
again, that may be because it's easier to say "add New Dixie" instead of
"This is what happens when you add Rajput, Kikuyu, Uzbek and Tlingit
people
together"

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