[UA] Hitler Riffing

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

Nice ideas.  I'd certainly like to put a delimma like
that in front of my players.  It's juicy, political
and it makes fun of a President I didn't vote for
(when someone whines about being ridiculed, it just
makes me want to ridicule them all the more.)

Since I like corny references, there would be a
character named Si-Fan, though.

--- holycrow at mindspring.com wrote:
> Hm... just some non-canonical riffing here, but...
> 
> Let's suppose Hitler started out consciously trying
> to boot Alexander the Great from the position of
> "Conquerer."  (Or, perhaps, grew to consciously
> enact it.)  At the last moment, he succeeds -- but
> not the way he wanted.  He goes up as the
> "Overreaching Conquerer" -- the guy who gets a lot
> and loses it trying for a little more.  But he kicks
> out Alexander and ascends.
> 
> The PCs become aware of this and also find out that
> the Godwalker of the Overreaching Conquerer is
> currently highly placed in China's military
> hierarchy.  He's got an awful lot of unmarried young
> men under arms and he's planning to mobilize against
> pretty much all of Asia.  (I've heard wide eyed
> claims over here that China prints up maps where
> Korea, Vietnam and Taiwan are all marked as part of
> China.  I'm not buying it.)  
> 
> Here's their dilemna.  They can monkeywrench him if
> they want... but unlike Hitler he's NOT a racist
> nutjob.  He's got, actually, some legitimate
> historical beefs with his enemies -- or, at least,
> reasonable ones.
> 
> If they HELP him, it means a conflagration in Asia,
> possibly with MILLIONS dead -- not to mention his
> plans for Taiwan push China to the brink against the
> US (with, I might remind you, a C student who can't
> keep his own daughters under control in charge). 
> But if they help him, there's a solid chance that he
> can Ascend and replace Hitler.  I mean, HITLER.  
> 
> What do they do?
> 
> -G.
> 
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