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Introduction to

Land of Shattered Time (LoST)

Six shooters, sorcery and steam, lots of steam, that defines the Land of Shattered Time. LoST is an alternate Earth setting that follows a timeline that diverged from our own, set at the beginning of the 20th Century, but steam will drive this world.

Its is a world where magic and technology developed together, a world where the undead lurk underground and in shadowy lands and dark alleys. The Cemeteries of New Orleans take on a whole new dimension, or is that demention? Here you may find titans of industry have a telegraph operator and a diviner in their entourage. Where a gunfighter can use healing magic, or an army scout might be a werewolf. The west was never this wild!

The Land of Shattered Time, the LoST World, is a re-imagining of our own world, but with elements of fantasy made real coupled with an alternate base of science and technology that embraces steam over other sources of power and propulsion. History can be tweaked or even wholly rewritten to fit these conditions.

LoST is also unique as it is a world setting that any may contribute to, Lord Palatine will serve as editor more than writer to help blend the elements that any may contribute to the whole project.

Join in to contribute your thoughts to this alternate earth and create a unique game world. Currently two settings are in play, one set in the time of William’s Conquest of England in 1066, the other is the world of the early 1900s.

Who, What, Where, When, Why, & How

Who is anyone, meaning that you can bring most sorts of characters into this world, a few might not fit but we'll cross all bridges as we reach them.

What sort of game is this is pretty easy, its mixing history and fantasy to find a whole new way to look at the world, then and perhaps now.

Where is our world, there is an experimental game in an alternate world setting, but our world is a few clicks on google away from maps and answers, simplicity rules!

It is the turn of the century, after the Civil War and before the First World War, steam is the high tech of this day, telephones are around but still in the early stages of replacing the telegraph, and the horse is a horse of course and still the primary way people get around.

This is the world of Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger, Captain Nemo, and even the era of War of the Worlds. This is a world of unusual machinery with long and unusual names, and a world of magic and mysterious creatures and places. What if in addition to a surgeon general governments have a healer general and an arch druid in the Department of the Interior?

How is simple, take a character from any other genre and we'll see how it fits.  Paladin was a character in "Have Gun Will Travel," what if he really was a paladin?  Jack the Ripper a vampire, or wraith, or litch? The possibilities are pretty limitless.

The World on the Cusp

We're at the end of the Victorian Era and the beginning of the Edwardian, the world is governed in a time of rampant imperialism, where old and established empires are challenged by younger nations for their 'share' of the world. It is also the world of the Robber Barons. When you put this all together you have a world of very rich and very poor and a middle class struggling to make itself known in a rigid and discriminatory class system. Its a time when some were rising up to challenge the status quo and an age of adventurers and discovery.

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