Questions about Doug's World

[Bob Schroeck]

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Obviously in Doug's world, the Bans were never lifted, nor were they in the IST world.

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The thing about the Bans, John (and we've had this discussion before), is that not all of us in the group actually remember them being lifted! We have no doubt that that's what happened in the wake of that adventure, but we kept going (in and out of game context) for a long time as though they were in place. The matter of the French Superteam, for example, was an adventure we played out only a few years ago -- it was one of the last sessions before we went on hiatus -- and whoever the GM was for that (Helen? Kat? Who was before Joe and me, not counting the Mont-St.-Michel adventure Peggy and Helen ran? I can't recall) certainly thought that they were still active, as that was the whole point of the "illegal" national team -- to flout the Bans.
The DW version of Warriors' World certainly does have the Bans still intact and enforced, but that's more a consequence of my not remembering anything about them being lifted than an intentional "design decision". Of course, the DWWW varies from the campaign world in a lot of other details, so what's one more?
And the IST world is another beast entirely, being at best a strange reflection of Warriors' World. The last common point of history between the two is the arrival of the Seeders hundreds of thousands of years BC, and even then, we have the campaign version of the Seeders (symbiotic intelligent viruses) and the IST version of the Seeders (Precursor-level eco-engineers who create intelligent races as a hobby or an obsession). The Edicts of 1987 are much the same as the Bans, but how they got there and what they did afterwards was quite different from WW in the same timespan.

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However, not all is bad for our timetraveling super: the end time for WWIII has come and gone and we're still here, so he must have done something right.

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Of course, as a result, he's stuck in a world nothing like the one he's familiar with. Not that it isn't unpleasant, but he doesn't really have an anchor here and he's been drifting a bit trying to find a place and purpose now that he's achieved his goal. (Thus sayeth the GM, since you raised the issue about him being a part of that metahuman political action group at the last session I ran.)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.